No…not that toybox.
And not that one either, you pervs!
In every story, you can find Toys. Your characters don’t exist in a vacuum, and they don’t roll around in bubbles. Unless they do, and as I’ve said before in [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: What’s In The Toybox?
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WORD: On Good Writing…
The Elements of Style from Jake Heller on Vimeo. With Hat Tip to my good friend Jason at Spoiled For The Ordinary.
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Did You Get Married?
Is your story grinding to a halt every time you set fingers to keyboard? Have you found yourself playing minecraft, or suddenly absorbed with facebook games/obsessively tweeting random things about armpit hair? It’s time to play hardball with your story. [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, fixing story problems, for writers, married to bad ideas, Scribbling, storytelling, WIPs gone wild, WIPs gone wrong, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays, writing
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: De-Clutter Your Plot
“So…what’s your book about?”
As soon as someone finds out you’ve written or are writing a book, that’s the first question that’s going to come out of their mouths. Mostly to be polite (unless they’re an editor or agent by trade, [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Franken-Plotting
Wasn’t sure I’d be able to keep this up every week in October, but I’ve found another way to tie in classic monsters with the shambling horrors that can appear in early drafts of our stories. This one’s called the [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Story Vampires
Sorry gang, but the topic will not be covering actual literary blood suckers, sparkly or otherwise. What today’s topic refers to is those characters who suck the lifeblood out of your story…or who just plain suck.
Vampire Boyfriends
Some vampire characters come [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Mood Swings
I’m having a mood swing today. Not to go too far into TMI, but I’m grumpy, achy, chilly, sneezy, and crabby (and most of the other dwarves, too). I am seasonally affected, and it usually doesn’t show this early, so [...]
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Friday TMI
Taking a bit of a break from history today to share with people a little bit about me. About what’s on my sidebars, and what isn’t.
My bio says I’m a writer, but there are no books in my sidebar. I [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, epublishing, indie publishing, Publishing, publishing, Scribbling, status update, writing, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Act Your Age
Today, we’re talking age. Clutch your pearls right now and get it out of your system. Out yet? Good. Now relax, because we’re talking character age.
I have a pile of writing aids collected from various sources and various time periods [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Deep-Sea Diving
There’s a certain amount of suspension of disbelief that goes into any tall tale, but where does it come from? What takes you out of your “I’m reading a book” mindset and puts you into “I’m experiencing a story” is [...]
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