by Autumn | Feb 6, 2015 | Tips, Writing
If you’ve read my writing or perused my blog, you know I write utilizing multiple POVs. I’ve created many personal rules for POV use. The POV has to be a main character (no one time chapters in a character’s point of view and then the reader never hears from them...
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 | Sep 12, 2014 | Friends of my Enemy, The World of Myrrah, Tips, Writing
All stories utilize tension, but each genre incorporates it differently. Stories, and the tension in them, are not the same. Epic fantasy, thrillers, and other action oriented novels rely on the tension built by ‘what will happen next!’ Other tales such as detective...
by Autumn | Aug 8, 2014 | Writing
A recent post over at the Guild of Dreams had me thinking about how I handle background information in my stories. Not that I don’t think about background quite a lot. I do! I love world building and tend not to start writing, well really writing the novel, until I’ve...
by Autumn | Aug 1, 2014 | Tips, Writing
What do you think of when I say ‘the dark forest’ or ‘the magical glade’ or even the ‘the tiny village’? Ideas – preconceived ideas – immediately spring to mind, don’t they? A recent article over at Mythic scribes talked about metaphor and how authors use...
