Mar 30, 2015 | Cephrael's Hand, Character Development, Fantasy tropes, Inspiration, Laws and Esoterics, Organic writing, Plot Development, Story Concepts, Tropes, World-Building, writing |
To my readers: please know how much I appreciate your emails, mentions and comments! Recently, many of you have written to me asking similar questions. I thought it would be best to answer all of you here on my blog in order to give your questions adequate address....
Sep 8, 2014 | Character Development, fantasy, Imagination & Creativity, Organic writing, Philosophy, Plot Development, Story Concepts, World-Building, writing |
After my last blog post on the four things you must know before starting a novel, in which I suggested not inventing a character, kingdom or creature until the story calls for it, a number of readers wrote in to ask, should nothing be planned? My answer is absolutely...
Dec 16, 2012 | Cephrael's Hand, eBooks, Excerpts, fantasy, Uncategorized |
This week I thought I’d give you an excerpt from Cephrael’s Hand. This chapter provides our first glimpse of the constellation and its ominous implications. “To know love is to know fear.” – Attributed to the angiel Epiphany The...
Oct 31, 2012 | Character Development, fantasy, Plot Development, World-Building, writing |
Many thanks to The Cover by Brittany for originally hosting this post on her blog. Some fantasy authors cringe at the topic of world-building, but actually, it’s one of the most thrilling aspects of writing genre fiction. When we write fantasy, we become...
Oct 4, 2012 | fantasy, Plot Development, Story Concepts, Tropes, World-Building, writing |
The word trope is defined in most dictionaries as “a word or expression used in a figurative sense,” but trope has become reinterpreted in today’s vernacular to refer to an often overused plot device. The conflict inherent in tropes as they apply to genre literature...
