Today’s blog title speaks of the ol’ proverb. It’s about spreading yourself, your faith, your influence, or your attention too thin. And we can be just as guilty of that in our fiction worlds as we do in our real [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Mile Wide, Inch Deep
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Avoiding Zombies
Today, we’re talking Zombies.
Put your brains away, the shambling horrors I’m talking about are the ones that shuffle through your manuscript as storylines, characters, interesting events, and bits of action that, like the unquiet dead, do not play well with [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Time Flies…Or Does It?
Okay, usually for WW, I tend to go on and on and pontificate about stuff I know, or stuff I’ve learned in the years of writing that I’ve done. Stuff I think about when I think “good story.” This week, [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: The Dog Did It
Very few things can hook a reader like an animal. Dogs, cats, fish, birds, little talking geckos with the voice of Ricky Gervais–they’re all part of our lives. Our companions, and sometimes our only friends. Why not offer our characters [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, for writers, pets, Scribbling, storytelling, worldbuilding, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays, writing
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Whither the Weather?
…or “This time, it’s personal.”
Today, it was 94 F. Last week, it was 64 F and I ran down to the basement multiple times in the middle of writing, cooking, cleaning, laundry, and/or driving somewhere with green clouds in my [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, environment, for writers, Scribbling, setting, storytelling, weather, worldbuilding, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Bathrooms on the Enterprise
I’m sure this will come as no surprise to some of you, but I used to be a hardcore, die-hard Trekkie. No, not a “trekker” but a bona-fide Spock-ears wearin’ Trekkie. My dad started me out watching reruns of the [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Play With Your Food
The places we eat can be as ubiquitous and generic as the golden arches. Food can be something you shovel into your mouth when your stomach tells you to, or food and the places we get it from can take [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Touchy Feely
Did you ever get into one of those writing zones where you’re only half-aware that you’re even writing? The words come so fast, and (seemingly) so perfect that you can’t really do anything besides just hang on for dear life [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: People With Purpose
When a person has a purpose, they move through their day with determination. You can tell a person with purpose just by watching the way they walk. They’ve got somewhere to be, and some reason to be going there.
Characters are [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Anchors Aweigh!
My Worldbuilding Wednesdays aren’t really meant to be an overarching “how to write” series–whether or not one does something well, it takes a special gift to show other people how to do it. What I am hoping to accomplish is [...]
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