Blog Archives

Story Promises: What Readers Expect from Fiction

Like many readers, my main reason for reading fiction is to be taken out of my world and into someone else’s. Before I became a writer, I didn’t expend a lot of brain power to decide what stories to pick. I

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Writing Advice, Writing Fiction

10 Reasons Why You Should Write Fan Fiction

We write [fan fiction] because we love these vampires, Doctor Who companions, or demon hunters so much that we can’t stand not knowing what happened in those missing scenes or giving them the chance to make a different or better

Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Writing Fiction

Why We Read Fiction

Tagged with: , , , , ,
Posted in Quotes

Confusion vs Curiosity in Fiction

I recently sat in on a talk by New Mexico author RJ Mirabal in which he shared some of the lessons he learned on the road to publication. He made the point that an author must write in a way

Tagged with: , , , , , , ,
Posted in Writing Fiction
All who wander are not lost.~ JRR Tolkien

Archives
CampNaNoWriMo Winners Badges Apr_Jul 2015