It’s time.
You’ve been training your writing skills for months, and now it’s time to put them to use in the fiercest, most physically-and-mentally-taxing way possible.
The Belated-Birthday Writing Triathlon!
Month: March 2019
As you learn more about writing, you find out there’s this thing called “voice.”
It’s essentially the personality of the main character/narrator coming through the words on the page, directly to the reader, making them sound as real as possible.
Voice can be tricky to pin down, but there’s one book that does an incredible job of capturing the protagonist’s voice from page one: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.
Outlining a book can be a scary prospect. Where do you even begin???
Thankfully there’s a simple answer… actually, five simple answers.
Sometimes we writers think we’re doing cool things in our story, when in actuality we’re killing our story instead.
There are a lot of ideas that might work in some stories, but not all of them. It’s important to know when to use them, and when to not.
So let’s go ahead and talk about the top 10 things that writers overrate!
“You are my one vanilla conquest.”
Using Wikipedia for story inspiration is easy. All you do is click on “Random Article,” see what you get, and then write a story about that topic.
However, when the topics you get are John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone and 1985 in Mexico, things can get a little… interesting.
“And” is a word that can easily bog down your writing without you even knowing it
We use it so often that it can be easy to miss, but it can make your writing feel flat, fatty, boring, or read like a list
Thankfully it’s an easy fix! All it takes is a little… murder.
GeoGuessr is a website where you are thrown into a random spot in the world on Google Maps streetview, and you have to try and guess where you are.
It’s fun to play just by itself, to see how close you can get, but it’s even more fun when you put a spin on it: writing a description of each random area you’re given.
My book Metl: The ANGEL Weapon was just published!
But even though it’s my first published book, it’s far from the first book I wrote.
So let’s take a look at my first, hot-garbage-fire of a book that I wrote, and talk about all the things that I learned from it.
My book Metl: The ANGEL Weapon came out today! Hooray!
To celebrate, we did a live Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything)… with a creative twist.
Instead of just answering questions in the normal, boring way, we answered them as if they were writing prompts.