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Friday Flash Fiction: The Office of Interdimensional Transport
Story Prompt: There’s a problem with the paperwork.
On Editing Your Own Work
There are both advantages and disadvantages to hiring an editor. It’s the same with editing your own work.
Writing Tips
Worldbuilding: Creating Slang
One of the most challenging details for me to master, at least when it comes to worldbuilding, is slang.
Writing Tips: Creating And Describing Your Setting
In science fiction and fantasy writing, the setting plays just as important a role as the characters.
Checking Your Biases In Your World-Building
Don’t be limited by the familiar when it comes to creating the worlds in your writing.
Writing Tips: Creating And Describing Your Setting
In science fiction and fantasy writing, the setting plays just as important a role as the characters.
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.
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
Flash Fiction
Friday Flash Fiction: It’s Good To Look On The Bright Side
Story Prompt: The rescue never came.
Friday Flash Fiction: Missed Connections
Story Prompt: An alien species comes to Earth, and, due to a clerical error, their ambassador shows up on the doorstep of a low-level government employee, who welcomes them in for snacks.
Friday Flash Fiction: What’s In the Cauldron?
Story Prompt: A recipe goes very wrong.
Friday Flash Fiction: Missed Connections
Story Prompt: An alien species comes to Earth, and, due to a clerical error, their ambassador shows up on the doorstep of a low-level government employee, who welcomes them in for snacks.
Friday Flash Fiction: What’s In the Cauldron?
Story Prompt: A recipe goes very wrong.
Friday Flash Fiction: The Sole Survivor
Story Prompt: Crashed ship on an inhospitable planet.
Updates
On Writing
I’ve written more than a few first posts over the years. Despite that fact, they never seem to get any easier.
Into the LIghtning Gate
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