characters
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When I set out to write Soulless, I knew my main character was going to be a strong hero of a slightly different ilk: she’s a woman, but her gender is basically non-essential to the plot. I could hop in, switch all her gender pronouns to the masculine, and nothing else would need to be…
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“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” –W. Somerset Maugham For someone I’ve never even read, W. Somerset Maugham shows up on my quote pages quite a lot. When I go hunting for quotes or when they just pop up…
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I was trying to think of something a little light, a little fun, to do on the blog today since I’m definitely out of practice with regular posting and thinking of things to write. With the reclamation of the previously missing draft of Serpent in a Cage, the book has been pretty strong on my…
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A little while ago, I proposed an idea that would spark up some interest in what’s intended to be my next WIP, Serpent in a Cage. Already, I’ve done a post talking about the geography of the world that SiaC kicks off, but I had mentioned character interviews on the blog where readers can also…
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As I was writing along in the first chapter of The Unknown Scourge yesterday, I realized something interesting. The story was originally conceived as a science fiction revolution type of story, heavily inspired by Final Fantasy VII, which I was playing heavily at the time I thought of the story. It was a tale about…
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Though a combination of feeling a little off and some bad blood at work has me feeling uninspired this morning, I’m reminding myself of my “write anyway” motto and trying to put together a post for the day. After all, my minimum word count for these things is only 200 words, which is easy enough,…
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“I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god-and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.” -Lynn Abbey I chose this quote today because it’s the complete opposite of how I feel when I write, and that…
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Nearly every writer is familiar with William Faulkner’s infamous advice to kill your darlings in writing. In general, it’s never really taken at the face value to mean to kill off your characters, but rather as a way of saying that cutting out some particularly beloved aspect of your writing will ultimately make it a…
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It’s more common than you think. Now, this isn’t a post about me getting advertisers or sponsors for my blog, because I’m not entirely sure how that really works, despite that I’d love to do something like that so I could drop one of my crappy jobs. No, it’s me doing the advertising myself, and…
L.S. Engler 