There s been a recent shift in the publishing industry, but it s still slow-going. Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar has tips to become active editors.
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Writing All the Times: 6 Things to Ask Yourself About Your Time-Travel Story
Bestselling author Nicole Galland gives genre writers 6 expert tips to ground the time travel in their novels for the best reader experience.
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Mar 8, 2021
I’m usually shelved in the “historical fiction” section, but inside my own head, I don’t do genre. I just make stuff up and when it’s interesting, I write it down as well as I can (confession: There’s a little more to it than that). When the story’s set in the past, it goes on one shelf of the bookshop; when the setting is the present, it goes on a different shelf, and when the setting is the future, it goes on yet another. But who I fundamentally am
FightWriteâ¢: Fight Scenes and Dialogue
In this article, author and trained fighter Carla Hoch answers a writer s question about how to handle dialogue during a fight scene, including pros and cons to having dialogue at all.
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Dear FightWrite™,
I keep seeing fight scenes where the protag and villain are dialoguing during a fight. This always seemed a little cheesy to me…how realistic is it that people could have a full conversation while in the middle of a physical fight? And, if so, where should I write dialogue in fight scenes? Anonymous
Writing dialogue in a fight scene: ah, yes, let the controversy begin. There tends to be two camps on this subject. The first says it’s not realistic. The second says it is. Well, I’m going to introduce a third point of view that will hopefully make peace between the factions. Then we can all go watch an action movie.
3 Things to Consider When Retelling Myths
Author Genevieve Gornichec shares her top tips for outlining a myth retelling with examples from her debut novel The Witch s Heart.
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Feb 16, 2021
Working with mythology is kind of like writing fan-fiction: Some things are spelled out for you explicitly as rules of this particular world or universe, and some things aren’t, and the trick is to create a story that sort of fits in with what’s already there without making the story unbelievable to readers familiar with the material.
When it comes to retelling myths, I can only speak on the Norse ones. For