Sound-off Saturday: Word of the Day
AUTHORING AS A NOUN BY CANDACE J. THOMAS Someone argued to me that there are no authors and that every author is a plagiarist, grabbing from history or different experiences. She said, “To AUTHOR as a verb is to create something new and there is nothing new in...Editor’s Notes: Put Up Your Dukes
BY MCKENNA GARDNER Writing Conflict The best conflict in literature stems from genuine human desire and motivation. When you have two primary characters, presumably the hero and the villain, or the hero and the heroine, with opposing outlooks on life, an inevitable...Editor’s Notes: Rewriting History, part 2
BY MERILYN OBLAD Accuracy in Historical Fiction, Part Two: Shifting Mental Gears In my last post , I wrote about how to do proper research for in-depth historical novels. But what do you do for backdrop historical novels, ones that take place in the past but the story...Editor’s Notes: Catching the Vision
BY JESSICA SHEN Vision Boarding: Oftentimes we may find that we lose inspiration, or have trouble visualizing parts of our story, whether it’s a character, or a room, or the whole scene itself. For you crazy creative types with overactive imaginations, this probably...Editor’s Notes: A Voice of Reason (part 2)
BY PENNY FREEMAN In my last post, we talked about how choosing the words your characters say helps to develop not only their history, but that of the world around them. In reviewing it, one perfect example of this popped into my head: TV’s Firefly, and its...
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