I present to you the second half of my two part post on finding and taming inspiration. If you’d like to check out part one click here. In this part, I’m going to go into taming inspiration. Let’s get to it! So you’re working on your manuscript. You are zoomin’, racking up 1K or more …
It’s Wonderful Word Wednesday again! Here’s this week’s word! maw noun 1.) the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal. 2.) the crop or craw of a fowl. 3.) the stomach, especially that of an animal. 4.) a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal. 5.) the symbolic …
Though I normally do this on my Facebook page. I’ve decided to do Soundtrack Sundays and Wonderful Word Wednesdays for you all on here too. In case you don’t have a Facebook or just prefer blogs. Soundtrack Sundays is where I post a new movie score track to my Soundtrack Sundays YouTube playlist for your …
I’m a member of a fantastic young writers group on Facebook called Go Teen Writers. In the group, writers post about the need for critique or accomplishments or problems and such. Two problems I see frequently: “I just can’t come up with a good idea!” and “I just got this new idea now I can’t …
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Ingrid (Subsapien) Hey! I’m back with another character interview! This time it’s with Ingrid from my science-fiction novel Subsapien Grafting interviewed by my lovely Canadian friend Cassia. Cassia: *settles into chair, smiles* Thanks, Tori. Ingrid: *walks in, has wings folded on her back, smiles* Cassia: Hi Ingrid. *notices the wings* I love your wings! Ingrid: …
Find it on Amazon here! 🙂 One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying a character’s emotions to the reader in a unique, compelling way. This book comes to the rescue by highlighting 75 emotions and listing the possible body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for each. Using its easy-to-navigate list format, …
Matt and Ingrid from Subsapien Grafting (Drawn in 2013) Hey I know it’s late, but better late than never to do a beginning of the year post! It’s in the first month so I’m good lol. XD Well firstly, I want to say thank you to all my followers of here, my Facebook page and …
Hey, all! I’m finally back with another blog post! I took an end of the year hiatus but now I’m back. 🙂 And I’m working hard on editing my sci-fi novel Subsapien Biomech. ^ ^ But anyway … on to the post! Humor is important for your story whether it’s a dystopian, a fantasy, or …
Buy from Amazon! The planet Starlight is controlled by dragons. Because of the depletion in their atmosphere of an essential gas, pheterone, they must search for a way to survive. They know that a network of gas veins exists deep beneath the crust of their planet, but, being dragons, they are not skilled with ways …
Wow, you’ve written an entire manuscript some 70K words. You’ve cried and stressed during the macro edit as you had to cut and mesh scenes and fill in those plot holes. Now you’re near the finish line, and you’ve come to line-editing or micro-editing. You have to get every little sentence perfect. If you’re there …
