by Autumn | Dec 23, 2017 | News and Events
This last week AmWritingFantasy went through a major overhaul. The change was so big, the site had to come down for five days. But boy, was it worth it! Not only is a lot of the clutter cleared away and my new partner on the site, Jesper Schmidt, given a place of...
by Autumn | Sep 13, 2017 | Tips, Writing
I have a character on the verge of killing someone. Unfortunately for him, he can’t do it quite yet. Because, currently, he needs the other character. Oooh, but he hates him. It was that realization that he, character 1, doesn’t have to like the situation, even if he...
by Autumn | Sep 5, 2017 | News and Events, Tips, Writing
When I decided to start writing novels, I mean seriously start writing them and not just occasionally playing with a story idea, it had been AGES since my undergraduate creative writing courses. English degree or not, I knew I needed a refresher. Thus began what...
by Autumn | Aug 21, 2015 | Games of Fire, Tips, Writing
I wonder if you reacted to that bit of advice to write a short bad book the way I did, which was “No way!” It isn’t my advice. It belongs to the awesome and well known author Philip Athans. I rejected the idea almost without reading his blog post (which you can find...
