One of the most challenging details for me to master, at least when it comes to worldbuilding, is slang.
Worldbuilding: Creating Slang
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Writing Tips: Creating And Describing Your Setting
In science fiction and fantasy writing, the setting plays just as important a role as the characters.
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.
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: What’s In the Cauldron?
Story Prompt: A recipe goes very wrong.
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: The Sole Survivor
Story Prompt: Crashed ship on an inhospitable planet.
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.
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.
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.