What exactly is a 'real' writer? Are you one? Am I one? Is anyone who wishes they were one? Let's try to figure it out. What actually makes someone a 'real' writer? Is it having their name on a book cover? Is it writing 5,000 words a day? Is it having finished a draft of a book? "No," you snort disdainfully. "Obviously not, because you are going to tell me what it actually is!" What if I told you that those things I just named above are what some people think makes read more
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When is Your Vocabulary “Too” Much?
I am officially back from my hiatus! I am still stuck in high school, and literally, time seems to have slowed down to a crawl ever since school begun just so it can personally torture me for as long as possible. (Love you too, time!) To kick off being back, I am questioning something that most writers think we should do: have a good vocabulary. I personally have encouraged you in the past to have a good vocabulary; I literally gave out a freebie for this purpose. And I still think that read more
5 Ways to Get Rid of a Writing Slump
So once and a while, a writer can fall into a writing slump - embarrassing as it is to admit, it does happen. What should you do when you're in one? But before we hop into this post I am going to add this in for the last time to a post: this is a poll for a course I'm going to make! I would love it if you could answer it if you haven't. I'll be closing it down later this week, so make sure you get your vote in before then! đ First, we must identify exactly what a writing slump is. A read more
Success Comes from Hard Work
Are you willing to go through blood, sweat, and tears to reach the level of success you want? My friend, in this day and age, you must be willing to work your butt off to get anywhere. Let's jump into this post! Today's post was inspired by a conversation with my dad and sister. The root of all success is hard work. If you're always looking for the easiest excuse to not do things, I can promise that you're never going to get anywhere. Those big fancy authors? They had to work hard for read more
Is Bigger REALLY Better?
When it comes to writing, bigger is not always better. In fact, sometimes it's downright harmful! I learned this just last week when I realized that saying "no" to some stuff is just as important as saying "yes". This is a post where you're going to learn a bit more of my WIPÂ Poison Dragon. (Surprise! The name has changed. I asked those on my mailing list recently to help me decide a new name, and they really liked Rising Fire. However, I decided to go with this new name instead. I really read more
How to Improve Your Vocabulary
Recently I received an email requesting tips on improving vocabulary. I quickly threw myself into making a very helpful post on the subject! đ And guess what? This is the post I made a worksheet to go along with! Never Use There are some certain words that you should try to avoid if you can. If you ever use them, there are also certain ways to do so. Said. For 6 years of school, I learned that "said is dead". It was under penalty of death that I avoided it. (Okay, not that dramatic, read more
Me and My WIP Whilst I Write It
Hey there! Fun title, right? I thought today I'd take time to write a bit more about The Triad of Caosdif, while awaiting you to tell me what you would like help with learning in writing. (I want to help you out! Please, tell me in the comments what you want me to post about next! đ) Finding Old Friends I love reading through the first draft, because I forgot things as I wrote through it the first time, and I get to remember them as I go! This can be: random read more
Picking Apart the WIP: Collab with The Amber Illusion
Hey there! Surprised to see me today? đ Well, I have a fun post planned! Cassidy, a fellow blogger (who goes by the name The Amber Illusion) has so graciously agreed to do a collab with me! (Click HERE to check out her blog!) We each came up with 10 questions for our WIPs (for those of you who don't know, that stands for Work In Progress). The ones I came up with are here on my blog, along with our answers to them. The Amber Illusion's questions are on her blog (posted earlier read more
How to Keep your Novel Interesting with Dialogue: Foreshadowing
Hey guys! Wow! Have we ever come a long way since the first post in this series! đ We're ending the last post with a bang, because #1 I love foreshadowing and #2 I'm giving you a freebie! So Foreshadowing can be very complicated, and difficult to do correctly. In fact, I could probably make a very long series of Foreshadowing alone! But for today, we must focus on the dialogue side of things. With Foreshadowing, you're hinting at things to come. FOR GOOD read more
How to Keep your Novel Interesting with Dialogue: Conflict
Hey there! So we have reached Conflict, and you know what the last dialogue post will also be about as well. But, obviously that's for the last post in this series, and not this one. :P How can you put conflict into dialogue? Isn't conflict all the punching and fighting stuff? Take a moment and think about this. You're a writer. You literally use words. I'm willing to bet that a bunch of you are like me, and better at fighting with words instead of read more
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