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Writing Tips: When to Break the Rules
TLDR: When should you break the rules? When you need to.
Page One: Into the Lightning Gate
This is page one of Into the Lightning Gate, a queer, sci-fi, action thriller available in paperback and for e-readers at Amazon. Get your copy now!
Writing Tips
Writing Tips: Constructing Basic Dialogue
Writing good dialogue doesn’t have to be hard. Like everything else with writing, it takes some thought, and lots of practice.
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.
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.
Storytelling: Don’t Forget The Why
One of the easiest ways to write a boring story is to ignore the why.
Flash Fiction
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.
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 Publishing
The publishing process is its own game. Here are some of the steps I took to publish my second book.
On Writing
I’ve written more than a few first posts over the years. Despite that fact, they never seem to get any easier.
On Writing
I’ve written more than a few first posts over the years. Despite that fact, they never seem to get any easier.
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