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Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash and edited by me Currently reading: We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia I am not heterosexual. Now that I’ve chased away a good amount of the population, hear me out: I’m done reading forced straight romance. Especially in fantasy, especially when the stakes are super high. If I wanted to read a romance, I would read a romance. Stop offering me a fantasy novel and giving me romance with a prettier cover and reskinned elves. \ I don’

Photo by Harvey Abayasari and edited by me Currently Reading: Wench by Maxine Kaplan So you have an idea. You have some fun plans for the characters. You have a setting and maybe even a plot. But why is the main character so boring? It can be really easy to turn a main character, especially if they’re the ones narrating the story, into another version of yourself. This is good! Every character, but especially narrating characters, should have pieces of you. Buuuuuut what ma

Photo by Cameron Nicole on Unsplash and edited by me Currently reading: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake The term “killing your darlings” usually refers to a process in editing involving culling sentences you like. It can also mean cutting characters, scenes, or even chapters that you worked hard on. And that’s hard, yeah, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. I use the term murder because that’s what it feels like. Killing characters. Not cutting them, but act

Photo by Planet Volumes on Unsplash and edited by me Currently Reading: A Million Worlds With You by Claudia Gray Bear with me. It’s time...

Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash and edited by me Currently Reading: Storm: Dawn of a Goddess by Tiffany D. Jackson Remember...

One writer's feelings on "show not tell". Photo by Fiona Murray-deGraaff on Unsplash and edited by me Currently Reading: Gideon the Ninth...

Photo by Etienne Giradet on Unsplash and edited by me Currently Reading: Into the Sunken City by Dinesh Thiru This seems like the place I...