Year: 2020
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Author Interview: Emmie Brown
Emmie and I met over ten years ago when I worked with a program called Young Adult Volunteers. During orientation at beautiful Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, Emmie and I had several interesting conversations. Years later, she is a wife and mother and now is the author of her debut novel, The Broken & Beautiful…
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5 Characters Who Should Be in Your Story
Take a look at your story and see if you have the following … Featured in the Structuring Your Novel Workbook. Photo by Isabella Mariana from Pexels
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Friday’s Findings
Why are companies, including publishers, leaving Amazon? And some more articles on writing fiction I’ve read lately: Amazon Past Prime: Why Major Retailers & Publishers are Going it Alone Author, We Have a Problem: 4 Tips on Plotting Your Novel Plot structure examples: Creative plot lessons from stories Writing Crime: Myths And Misconceptions About The…
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My Favorite SF&F Shows, Part 3
I present part 3 in my favorite science fiction and fantasy shows. The Witcher Geralt of Rivera, a “mutant” who seeks and destroys monsters, finds himself up against the the empire of Nilfgaard.Watch it here. Carnival Row Philostrate, a detective with a mysterious past, and Vignette, a faerie who’s a refugee from her own land,…
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Author Interview: Lena Wood
Back in the 90s, Lena Wood and I worked as editors at the same publishing company. We reconnected a few years ago when she visited my city and I ended up being one of her beta readers for her latest novel, Storm God. Lena has republished her YA novels with gorgeous new covers. Storm God, however, though…
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Dogged Decision
I’ve decided to retire from dog sitting. It’s a side job I’ve been doing for years—decades, really. I still love dogs. I still love dog sitting. Something, however, has changed. Maybe I want to concentrate more on writing; I mean I can still do that when I am at someone else’s house taking care of…
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Friday’s Findings
Infodumping isn’t necessarily wrong. It’s more how you present the information. Real Life Diagnostics: Infodumping in the Opening Page How to get writing ideas: 7 insights from Goodreads So, You Want to Be a Writer? Voice: What is Writing ‘Voice’ & Why is It Important to Storytelling? Supporting Characters and Theme: 6 Important Questions to…
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Create More Conflict
See the infographic here.
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Not Ashamed to Be a Learner
If a job existed in which I could go and sit in lectures at a university all day-and get paid for it-that would be my ideal job. Yes, that is how weird I am. I loved college. I also loved teaching at a college for ten years. Several years ago, when I took the Strengths…
Andrew M. Friday 