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Dialogue
Dialogue isn’t just an interchange of quotes between characters. It is a way to bring the characters in your story to life, a way to show their relationships to other characters, and a way to convey...
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The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden
Perhaps the most well known Korean myth is The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden. It tells the story of a strange relationship between a peasant man and the fairy woman he captures and marries. You...
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Tense
Tense in writing isn’t something that every author thinks about. Often I feel like people write their stories a certain way because it’s what they’re used to reading, and they don’t consider what...
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Writer Tag (from Kim Chance)
This past Saturday my internet writing friendo Kim Chance posted a Writer Tag video and asked other vloggers and bloggers to tackle it as well. I actually didn’t have a post set for this week because...
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10 Content Marketing Topics for Your Author Platform
Content marketing is the name of the game for internet marketing. You need a blog, vlog, podcast, or some way to share free content that you create in order to draw people to your author platform....
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Author Interview: H.W. Vivian
This summer is a big one for author H.W. Vivian. She just recently released her novel The Goddess, the second book in her War of Rain series. On top of promotions for this book, she has two upcoming...
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How to Write a Fight Scene
Fight scenes are one of those things that can crop up in any genre from crime thrillers to high fantasy. Depending on the story, they may even show up in a romance. Knowing how to write a fight scene...
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Why Self-Publish?
Self-publishing has become a hugely popular way to release books since the advent of Amazon’s Kindle program. The ease of getting your book out there makes it a viable and tempting alternative to...
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How to Create Thematic Imagery For Your Stories
A picture is worth a thousand words. I’m sure you’ve all heard this saying before. A lot of authors may dispute how accurate this claim is, but I think it does touch on something. There’s a reason...
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Author Interview: Michael Blackbourn
Michael Blackbourn is a CG Supervisor for The Embassy VFX who lives just outside of Vancouver, Canada. I met him on Twitter and had the opportunity to read his work, so I thought I’d ask him some...
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5 Technical Tips to Improve Your Dialogue
There’s an art to dialogue, a flow to fictional speech any aspiring author will have to learn to master. Part of that comes from being creative and understanding how dialogue relates to your story and...
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7 Stylistic Tips to Improve Your Dialogue
Technical aspects or some basic rules for writing can help clean up your prose, but there are also stylistic elements to consider. I view the following tips as stylistic as opposed to technical...
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My Top 5 Favorite Shows of the Summer
I thought this week I’d take a break from the serious business of generating my writing advice posts and talk about some of the TV shows I’ve enjoyed over the summer, now that the fall TV season is...
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The Shows I’m Watching and You Should Too: The Good Place
I have a confession to make; I really don’t enjoy sitcoms all that much. There are some exceptions, but generally speaking I do not watch the half-hour comedy shows and much prefer my procedurals or...
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Combating Self-Doubt as an Author
Self-doubt is something that every artist, performer, and entrepreneur deals with. The idea of putting yourself and your work out there can be terrifying. What if people don’t like your work? What if...
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New York Comic Con Recap
Despite having lived in New York City pretty much my whole life, I’ve never actually made it out to New York Comic Con. This year, I finally rectified that. I managed to get passes for Friday and...
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Author Interview: Rachel Aubertin
Rachel Aubertin is a fantasy author who is currently attempting to fund raise for her novel Warden of the Unknown on Inkshares. The novel is intriguing with a darker setting than most high fantasy...
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Content Creation: Book Reviews
Should you write book reviews for your blog (or record them for your vlog or podcast)? This is a topic I’ve broached before and have gone back and forth on a few times. I started out writing book...
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Gwishin: A Look at Korea’s Ghosts
While American audiences are familiar with Japanese ghosts from movies like The Ring or The Grudge, the Korean ghosts (or myths in general) are less well known. Since I’m working on an urban fantasy...
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What Makes a Good Horror Story?
Full disclosure: I’m not much of a horror writer. I tend to focus on writing action and adventure. Those are probably the two elements that draw me into a story more than any other. That being said,...
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