This apt cartoon came from The Madman’s Scribbles. Welcome back to 101 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Wrote My First Book! With Dream of a City of Ruin finally off for the first round of beta reading, I can return to, and hopefully finish, the project I started […]
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So, the last two post have been about identifying theme in your writing, with a really great method from Jesikah Sundin and some awkward attempts by yours truly. Today I’m asking the question: Why should you identify the themes in your own writing? Whether you understand your own themes before you […]
As I said yesterday, theme is my Achilles heel in writing. So today I’m going to take Jesikah Sundin’s advice to heart and try to examine some of the themes in DVBC, using her method of turning a subject into a question then answering the question. Here are three that […]
I have to admit: Theme is my biggest weakness in writing. If I have themes in my books, it is entirely by mistake. I even have a silly superstition that if I dig around too deeply in the themes in my writing, I will ruin them somehow. In light of […]
Sometimes when you craft a setting, you come up against obstacles that seem insurmountable. With all other aspects of writing, you can rig the game a bit–plot not working? Just adjust it until it does. Characters not cooperating? Kill them off, or change parts of their backstory so they do […]
Something we hear over and over again when learning how to write is be consistent, down to the smallest detail. In fantasy in particular, but I would argue in any genre, an inconsistency in setting takes the reader out of the story. Inconsistencies can be big, like the use of […]