by Jesper Schmidt | Nov 2, 2020 | Podcast, Tips, Tools for Authors, Writing
You’ve heard it many times before. The famous term: ‘Author Voice’. But what is it exactly and how do you develop one? Or should you even be concerned about your Author Voice? That’s some of the questions Autumn and Jesper seek to answer in episode 97 of...
by Jesper Schmidt | Aug 24, 2020 | Podcast, Tips, Worldbuilding, Writing
Is there such a thing as good and bad tropes, or are tropes just tropes? Join Autumn and Jesper as they dive into the land of clichés, but also stumbles over some fantasy gems. Episode 87 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast will walk you through some of the common...
by Autumn | Mar 6, 2019 | Tips, Writing
How many characters are speaking in a paragraph of your writing? Really, the question is how many characters should be speaking in one paragraph? We’ve been covering dialogue for a few posts now, and it is time to move on from ways of designating who is speaking with...
by Autumn | Oct 22, 2018 | Tips
Welcome to the third post on dialogue. In the last two, we’ve covered dialogue tags and how to use adverbs to accentuate those. Now we are on to action tags! Before we get into those, let’s look at how far the examples have come: “Where is it?” Cameron asked....
by Autumn | Sep 26, 2018 | Tips, Writing
Last time, we delved into dialogue tags, including if you really always have to use “said.” There was a lot covered in that post and if you missed it, check it out here. In our examples, we managed to clarify who was speaking and how many people are...