How to Make Fantasy Creatures Not Cliché

Have you ever written a story about some epic dragon that fights a knight and steals treasure, and then you share it with someone and they say oh, that’s so stupid. Dragons are cliché! Well here are ten tips on how to make fantasy creatures NOT cliché! Tip #1: Add a Twist Dragon’s don’t always …

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Two Old Poems 2

Okay, guys! You all seemed to really enjoy the two old poems post, and so I’m going to do it again. I rustled up two more poems from my old school work which I am going to share with you today. Enjoy. Sun, glinting off cold steel, eyes, hard and brave, a sword, sheathed, in …

3 Ways to Smash Writer’s Block

You sit down to write, you know you should, you know you have to, you put your pencil on the paper or set your fingers to the keyboard, and then it goes blank. Nothing will come out. It feels like your fingers are stuck and you just can’t move them as hard as you try. …

Short Story: Strength Together: Part 2

Drake ducked under Terrance's swing and then countered with a blazing left cut. Terrance caught it and pushed it forcefully out of the way. Drake slid his blade away from his friends' and leaped high, ready to defeat Terrance once and for all, and then a tap on the back meant he had been defeated. …

Short Story: Strength Together: Part 1

Everything was a haze. Everything but the sword and the eyes. Moving his own sword upward, Drake Romell watched his opponent's eyes to determine where the next move might be executed. Drake saw the eyes flick to the left. There. The man would strike there. When his opponent was just beginning to move his blade …

Four Part Blog Series: Beginning a Novel: Part 4: The Characters

Before you want to write a novel, you're going to want to know your characters pretty well, right? I mean, you don't want to write bland, wooden characters at the beginning of your novel and then by the end you've got your character down. No, you want to have them nice and rounded already before …

Four Part Blog Series: Beginning a Novel: Part 3: Beginning to Write the Plot

Alright, now that you have every thing you need to put together your plot, it's time to slide it all together. Your characters, theme, character arc, plot, story, goal, motivations, message, snippets and epic scenes are ready to be set down into a time line. 1: Set it Down To start, just...start. There isn't much …

Four Part Blog Series: Beginning a Novel: Part 2: Fleshing out the Theme

So now you've written down the main ideas of your story, you have the basic blocks of your novel outline complete. Now you want to begin fleshing out your theme some more. 1: Brainstorm Even though you have what the idea of the theme is, think about this: how do the different characters respond to …

Four Part Blog Series: Beginning a Novel: Part 1: The Spark

Hey all! Today I'm going to post the first part in a blog series, called 'Beginning a Novel'. It's a four part series. We’ll cover when you get that first little spark for a novel in your head, all the way to having a complete outline for your novel and good, rounded characters. I really …

Two Old Poems

Hello, hello! So I was looking through some of my older work that I had made a few years back, and I came across these two old poems that I thought were really funny and I wanted to share them with you. Enjoy! 😀 The Jester A jester played for the king He danced and …