The Hidden Place – Chapter 3: Anger
Read Chapter 2: Guilt Anger The man beside me bolts upright, holding his head in his hands. “What happened?” he moans. I sit up. “You’re alive! Oh, thank God.” He pulls his hands away and cocks his head. “Yeah… still here.” “You okay?” He hesitates. “Bit of a...
Writers Need A Community to Survive Publication — by Amelia M.A.
Writing can be a lonely business. Obviously, it’s a task you have to do on your own, but is it really ALL by yourself? If you want to succeed and retain your sanity, there are several groups of people you need in your corner to make up your writing community:...
The Hidden Place – Chapter 2: Guilt
Read Chapter 1: Denial Guilt My eyes flutter open. I’m surrounded by blackness. Raindrops pelt my face like some sort of sick water torture. Laying in mud, I’m unwilling to move despite its attempt to engulf me from behind. The horn, the headlight, the sizzling and...
The Revolt Against Fantasy Tropes and the Rise of “Grim-Dark” — by P.L. Stuart
There has been a true backlash of sorts in the past few decades against what are considered fantasy tropes. This counter-archetype revolution seems to have spawned the popularity of the “grim-dark” subgenre in fantasy fiction. It became quite vogue to write against...
The Hidden Place – Chapter 1: Denial
Denial A cloud of acidic steam fills my mouth with the taste of antifreeze. A beam of light fails to penetrate the night that surrounds me. The single headlight, absent its counterpart, reflects off the raindrops and filters back through the shattered windshield....
Writing Fiction: The Long and the Short of It – by DW Harvey
Like many authors, my writing started with a story that I just couldn’t get out of my mind unless I put it to paper. Walking my dog through a local park on a foggy evening, I began to wonder what might be hiding in the misty haze that blanketed the night. I...
Don’t Muddle Your Story – by James Clay Glass
After you’ve written your first (or second or third) draft, it’s time to go through your manuscript and cut out any unneeded words cluttering it up. Wordiness muddles your message, slows momentum, and drags an anchor through the forward movement of your story. Any of...
Go the Distance: What’s Your Story Worth?
After I completed the second draft of my first book, I knew it needed work. I wrote a story set in locations I had never been to. Or if I had, I had never really paid attention. If you know me even a little, you know I can be somewhat of a perfectionist. In my novel,...
How to Answer the Question, “What’s Your Book About?” – by Joel Schwartzberg
There’s no shortage of professional book marketing advice out there. But despite volumes of recommendations about author websites, social media, newsletters, and public relations, one author dilemma rarely gets addressed, and it’s the most simple and basic of them...
A Story of My Life
I was born at an early age, though that I base that information entirely on rumors and hearsay because I do not remember the actual event. I was what some
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