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Characters

Characters are a lot of fun to work with, and as the story progresses, they absolutely whisper to your creative ear as to how they want their part to play out in the story. You absolutely have the power to create the character as you want. What kind of personality do you want each character […]

Story Structure

First, you must decide if you want to tell your story in the first person or third person. First Person: (You’re telling the story of the main character and you relate the events that occur to you. (I) The third person conveys the story as it happened to someone else. (He said, she did) You […]

The Plot

The plot of the story usually involves conflict or struggle the main character experiences. The conflict or struggle of the main character may involve another character(s), a difficult situation the main character has to experience,  or person the main character is with, or it could be a character flaw within him/herself that he/she struggles with […]

The Theme of the Story

  A theme is something important the story tries to tell us—something that might help us in our own lives. Not every story has a theme, but some storytellers want to include themes in all of their stories. I’m not one of them. I don’t write to teach a moral or purposefully include a theme in […]

Editing; A Love/Hate Relationship

     Making the decision to write my first story seemed easy to me. I had the story laid out in a nice neat plan inside my mind, but when I began putting ink to paper, things got rearranged. Growing as a writer, I realize that’s usually the natural order of writing. So if you […]

Are Fairies Real?

Originally posted on Welcome to my World:
I must admit that I love a good fantasy as much as the next person.  I enjoy escaping into a mystical world with endless possibilities and heroes of all types.  However, as a writer, I’ve only written one fantasy, The Dragon’s Blood Key, which grabbed me and wouldn’t…

Learning The Basics

My daughter and I are beginning the study of How To Write. I’m excited to teach her language because I believe that these first years as a child learning about language and the written word can create a love of books for a lifetime.  I count it as a big responsibility on my part because […]

Deadly Reads Author Services: Book Covers

Finding the right book cover is a hard thing to do sometimes as an Author. For me, I like the cover to tell a bit of the story, so I tend to stress over it repeatedly until I think I’ve found the image that represents near to perfection as the one I see in my […]

Working Projects Today

Today, I’ll be finishing up an editing job for a client. He’s got some awesome stories in the making, and I can’t wait to share them with you here. I’ll also be scouting out some pictures for some upcoming books I’m working on and hopefully, finishing the final draft on my new series, Carasylia Chronicles. […]

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