• My Ultimate POV Guide – With Graphics And Examples

    Choosing the right point of view for a work of fiction is, in my opinion, the most important decision a writer makes beside choosing the protagonist. It not only dictates what pronouns to use, and how much of the protagonist’s thoughts the reader gets to see, but also determines the distance between reader & protagonist.… [Continue Reading]

    My Ultimate POV Guide – With Graphics And Examples

  • Top 5 Things I Want To Do With My Fiction

    There’s nothing I love talking about more than writing science-fiction and all the things that flow into it. I’m aware that many great minds have said many great things about this genre, and many brilliant writers have left their spectacular mark on it throughout the years. I’m also acutely aware I haven’t published any work… [Continue Reading]

    Top 5 Things I Want To Do With My Fiction

  • 13 More Aspects About Aliens That You Should Consider

    Here’s a new list of Alien Aspects in addition to the 13 Aspects About Aliens You Shouldn’t Ignore from earlier this year. I’ve promised Peter Cawdron I’d write one, so here you have it. Several extraterrestrial creatures were (un)intentionally killed in the creation of this post, and a small inhabited planet was destroyed. The course… [Continue Reading]

    13 More Aspects About Aliens That You Should Consider

  • How Much Science in Science-Fiction?

    Science is what separates sci-fi from fantasy, and its usually the nature, plausibility and degree of scientific detail that tiers the genre into several “levels”. Hard sci-fi is the one with the balls of steel in that respect, but what about the other subgenres? How important is the plausibility, and by extension the probability, of… [Continue Reading]

    How Much Science in Science-Fiction?

  • 13 Worldbuilding Questions

    I’ve been busy worldbuilding this week. It’s one of my favorite things to do in the process of writing sci-fi, and it makes me all giddy and drooly like a kid that’s been dropped into a toybox. Since I revisited my collected materials for the worlds I’m writing in, and have overhauled one of these… [Continue Reading]

    13 Worldbuilding Questions

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Size Matters, Length Not So Much

I'm talking about novels, of course. Be naughty in your own time. Each genre has an average expected novel length, and usually for first-time-authors that length is almost a condition. For … [Read More...]

The importance of protecting our inner peace

I've never quite managed to take a real break from writing. Not because I write every day (I certainly don't), but because even after weeks or months of not putting in any wordcount, I still think of … [Read More...]

The 3 Types of Character Arc – Change, Growth and Fall

The main reason I disagree with people who claim every story fits the hero's journey, is that it's not the only character arc out there, and it really doesn't fit every story. While I wasn't sure … [Read More...]