I’m always amazed at how many people I meet who have a well-developed idea for a book in their heads but have already convinced themselves they aren’t ‘good’ enough to actually write it. “You’re a published author,” they almost always say, “maybe you can write it up for me.” Since my first book’s release in November 2015, I’ve been asked… Read more »
One of my favorite tools of writing is subtext. I don’t know how widely known or used it really is because I didn’t learn about it until my junior year of college. Subtext is a thread that runs through a writer’s work that punctuates major points and/or usually underscores the whole purpose of the story. To put it in laymen… Read more »
Romance. You see it everywhere, in movies, tv shows, plays, books. Especially books. Now, I don’t know about you, but personally, I am a lover of the Fantasy genre, and I expect epic battles and torn worlds and little limitations on creativity for races (werewolves, vampires etc.) and alliances between worlds. I mean, you could literally get away with anything because it’s fantasy. I… Read more »