Know Your Genre and Characters
Know Your Genre and Characters (Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success, part 3 of 4) – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 93 “Take the expectations of the...
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Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success, part 2 of 4
Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success, part 2 of 4 – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 91 “Creativity is our superpower. With the power of our imagination...
How do I not overload background into my stories? Story Success Clinic
How do I not overload background into my stories? Story Success Clinic – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 90 “Stories are dynamic. Stories need to have action, movement. Stories need to...
The Rising Trend of Cross-Genre Romance: Mixing SciFi with Paranormal Elements by Keri Kruspe
What happens when you merge two good things? Find out by mixing sci-fi with paranormal to see what you get! Keri Kruspe shares all about it.
Five Rules For Writing Ghosts by Laurel Osterkamp
If you’ve ever wondered about writing life on the other side, look no further, you will soon be writing ghosts with ease.
Q&A with Seana Graham, Award-Winning Author
Please welcome Seana Graham to our Featured Q&A series at Writer’s Fun Zone. If you’d like to be considered for an interview, check out our guidelines here.
Q&A with Donna Harper, Award-Winning Author
Please welcome Donna Harper to our Featured Q&A series at Writer’s Fun Zone. If you’d like to be considered for an interview, check out our guidelines here.
Creating Character Depth by Jami Gray
For all those who have interacted with small humans in the kinder-to-third grade arena, you might be familiar with Flat Stanley (also known in some cases as Flat Lizzy). For those who haven’t had the joy of meeting this illustrious character, a quick introduction.
The Happy Nexus of BayCon by Mike Robinson
I recently met Mike at BayCon, where I presented on 3 panels. He was happy to share his experience at this busy and fun science fiction/fantasy fan conference that happens every year over Memorial...
How Do You Develop a Villain? Developing Your Characters Part 5
The character we love to hate. I write fantasy and paranormal, so yeah, the villain, is kind of important. I did some fancy footwork to not have a huge villain in the first book...
Indie Author Feature: Creating Characters That Come Alive, Part 2
Please welcome guest columnist LJ DeLeon, a fantasy romance indie author sharing a bit about her writing process. I find how she develops characters quite useful! I’ll use some of her tips for my...
Who Loves Xena Warrior Princess? I Do!
I just love Xena’s joy, glee and grit. I love her toughness, and also her sad heart. Love Gabrielle and the jester too. Little know fact: the jester in Xena inspired my character, Jaxter,...
Indie Author Feature: Creating Characters That Come Alive
We writers know our story circles around three things: plot, setting, and character. I’d like to talk about character. I know you have heard a dozen different ways to create characters, but how about one more time, only with a different take on them.
Wild Woman Archetype: Who is Baba Yaga?
Turns out Baba Yaga is more popular in the arts than I realized! She’s an old witch in Slavic and Russian folk tales. I associate here with these motifs: * Fire * A house that runs on chicken legs * She eats maidens…
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