Fiction and Fantasy

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  • The Six Aspects of a Story: What the Heck is a “Concept”?

    The way I see it, every story–regardless of its genre or form of medium–can be broken down into six different aspects: Some of my favorite stories of all time excel at all six of these, but a solid story will do well at least at a few. Some of these aspects are more complicated or…

  • Is There a Little Author in Every Character?

    Update : Added relevant links. Updated formatting to current blog standards. I used to subscribe to a hypothesis that an author puts a little piece of himself–however tiny–into every character that he or she creates. It could be as big as a self-insert character (“This character is based off me,” as is the case of…

  • Don’t Take Fifteen Years to Write a Book

    What the title says. Don’t do it. Don’t write a book over the course of fifteen years. It’ll save you a major migraine later in life. Or at least, if you’re going to work on a book for more than fifteen years, make sure it’s fifteen years in a row of constant work. Don’t take…

  • Broken Engagement: Am I Over Him Yet?

    Yeah, I’ve been through the agony of a broken engagement. Not a fun experience, to put it kindly. Awkward segue time: dreams have been on my mind a lot lately. Now, this isn’t the first time I’ve talked about dreams. But the thing that’s really on my mind today is one of the kinds of…

  • 5 Things I Hate About Being a Writer

    Update : Added relevant links. Updated formatting to current blog standards. I love being a writer. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about some of the things I love about being a writer. But as much as I enjoy crafting an entirely new world and all the little details that go into it……

  • Update: No Post This Thurs! Sorry!

    Hey everyone! I must apologize for the lack of a second update this week. As you know if you read my post on Tuesday, I’ve been suffering from a severe lapse in productivity, compliments of my addiction to E3. As such, I was trying to catch up on working on The Victor’s Blade Thursday… and…

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