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Sample Sunday: Part of Chapter 30 from The Elysian Chronicles: A Prophecy Forgotten
It turns out that several authors post samples of their books on Sunday. (It’s called #samplesunday in the twitter-verse.) I’ve decided to join in! My first sample comes from Chapter 30 in my first published book, The Elysian Chronicles: A … Continue reading
Today’s Writing Muse: Dangerous Trees
Writing Nirvana: discovering one “story fix” that solves more than one problem. For instance, the tree trunk above can help with two writing issues all of us deal with: Making our character’s journey to solving a problem more difficult that … Continue reading
Surround the Unbelievable with the Believable: Using Hybrid Magic & Technology
Making Make-Believe Believable: Surround the unbelievable with the believable by creating technology, weapons, and magic that is a hybrid of something already familiar to the reader. If you are new to this blog, I’ve been writing a series of posts … Continue reading
Surround the Unbelievable with the Believable Using Social Norms
Surround the Unbelievable with the Believable Using Social Norms Making Make-Believe Believable: Your setting may take place on another planet; your characters may be fighting a race of alien wizards; but you can surround the unbelievable with the believable … Continue reading
Surround the Unbelievable with the Believable: The Transformation Example
Making Make-Believe Believable: Surround the unbelievable with the believable by transforming believable items into items that are unbelievable. If you are new to this blog, I’ve been writing a series of posts about writing speculative fiction, including fantasy, science fiction, … Continue reading
Writing Speculative Fiction: Surround the Unbelievable with the Believable
Making Make-Believe Believable: The first technique to help your reader suspend disbelief is to surround the unbelievable with the believable. If you are new to this blog, I’ve been writing a series of posts about writing speculative fiction, including fantasy, … Continue reading
Suspending Disbelief: Understanding the Reader’s Reality Filters
Making Make-Believe Believable: Before you can get your reader to suspend his or her disbelief, you must have a good understanding of your target audience’s reality filters. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, most of us … Continue reading
Understanding the Suspension of Disbelief
Making Make-Believe Believable: Getting your reader to suspend his or her disbelief is key to writing make-believe. First you have to understand the reader’s expectations. One of my favorite scenes in Peter Pan is the scene where Tinkerbell almost dies … Continue reading
The Magic of a Good Story
Making Make-Believe Believable: A story’s true magic has nothing to do with fantasy elements. Don’t neglect the essence of storytelling simply because you write speculative fiction. First and foremost, it’s important to understand why people read fiction. Readers want to … Continue reading
New Writing Series: Making Make-Believe Believable
How to write fantasy, science-fiction, steampunk, comic book heroes, paranormal, and horror in such a way that even “muggles” will want to read it. I’m going to begin an extensive writing series called Making Make-Believe Believable. My goal is to … Continue reading
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