by Autumn | Jan 16, 2015 | Tips, Writing
Do you want to be the hero of your story, your life? I would expect that most people would say yes. That, to them, their life is about them, and not about playing a supporting role to someone else’s story. We experience life in first person. Every one of us. Even when...
by Autumn | Jan 9, 2015 | Friends of my Enemy, Writing
When I started this series of ‘What’s in a Genre’ I expected to be researching definitions to clarify what a reader expected when they chose a category. I didn’t realize how many genres would have such fuzzy boundaries! Military fiction is another of those. What I...
by Autumn | Jan 2, 2015 | Tips, Writing
I met a writer ages ago who described his writing process as planting seeds in the morning, and then weeding in the afternoon to see if he had any tomatoes (He was also an avid gardener!). His statement about his work method stuck with me. Write in the morning, edit...
by Autumn | Dec 19, 2014 | Writing
I wrote in a previous post that I was surprised to find After the War, the first book of my newest trilogy contained more romance elements than sci fi. But would I call the novel a dystopian romance? Should that mishmash of genres even should exist?! To answer that...
by Autumn | Dec 12, 2014 | Writing
My recent two week vacation to Peru was my first as a serious writer. By that I mean a writer who writes or edits every day. With two novels currently in the works and a third mid-way through edits, vacation became not only a debate about leaving my day job for 14...
by Autumn | Dec 8, 2014 | Friends of my Enemy, Games of Fire, Writing
In Ty’s ‘day before the novel begins’ story found in the Born of Novel Companion, he returns home to Myrocene to find nothing is as he remembers it or at least it doesn’t fit the way he remembers it. But really, home hasn’t changed. He...
