Checking Your Biases In Your World-Building
Don’t be limited by the familiar when it comes to creating the worlds in your writing.
Storytelling: Don’t Forget The Why
One of the easiest ways to write a boring story is to ignore the why.
Friday Flash Fiction: A Recipe Goes Very Wrong
Story Prompt: Crashed ship on an inhospitable planet. Life-support is failing.
Writing Tips: Advanced Character Creation
Creating great characters is the number one thing you can do when you’re trying to tell a compelling story
Friday Flash Fiction: Crashed Ship on an Inhospitable Planet
Story Prompt: Crashed ship on an inhospitable planet. Life-support is failing.
Writing Tips: Setting the Scene
When it comes to setting the scene, sometimes less is more, and sometimes more is more.
Finding Inspiration
Some days I have to actively force myself to stop typing and get up to take a break. But that doesn’t happen every day.
Patreon Post: Pandemic Productivity
As a work from home, freelance professional, I was in a well qualified to position to adjust to the need to isolate and remain socially distant.
My Favorite Writing Tools
From a collection of color coded notecards to the latest in online-based, team-centric software, there are so many great options available to today’s writer.
Patreon Post: What’s In a Name?
Patron-only Post: Naming characters is fun. A good character name really sets the tone for them.
Writing Tips: Basic Character Creation
One of the hardest things about writing fiction, except all of the other things, of course, is creating a good character.
On Writing
I’ve written more than a few first posts over the years. Despite that fact, they never seem to get any easier.
Downstation Blues
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