Anything in the field of creative art should come from a human soul. All artwork in this article by Michelle Walls As a registered Control Freak, I have always taken on the design duties for my book covers. This was a slow learning curve for me, becoming proficient in tools such as Adobe PhotoShop and […]
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A further perspective
Surprisingly to some, there is more than one way of writing in the ‘third person’ and many writers draw clear dividing lines between the approaches. In a previous article, A matter of perspective in storytelling, I took a quick look at comparing 1st and 3rd person perspectives when writing stories. Here, I go a little […]
Authors, Mothers, characters, daughters and all their imaginary friends
Minds of their own To begin with, writing requires the ability to disassociate oneself from true reality and go with the version that is inside one’s own head. We often call this imagining of other worlds and non-existent people ‘fantasising’, but for writers, it is more than idle imagination. We have to craft at it. […]
The wonder of naming your characters
Naming a character is the author’s act of creation, of giving a soul to a concept born from the ‘DNA’ made of a chain of her words. Introduction Characters can’t breathe until they have a name that you believe in, and they can’t walk, talk or impact the world you are imagining them in unless […]
Award system for struggling authors
If you write, then you deserve credit. Every word counts. So do you.
A matter of perspective in storytelling
What are the advantages of writing in either 1st or 3rd person perspectives and should we be able to use either when we want or even switch between perspectives within a story? What do we mean by ‘perspective’ in a story Telling a story requires all sort of things to be put in place. You […]
Does sex in fantasy stories have to be fantasy sex?
All sex scenes in creative literature are fantasy! As writers, we are not here to offer our readers boring encounters. Who on Earth needs that? We have to engage imagination and passion. Pump up the excitement. Guild it with magical romance. This is true for whatever type of fiction you write. It is just that in fantasy […]