by Penny Freeman | Dec 9, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY JESSICA SHEN Getting to know your characters: Arguably the most important component of your story are your characters. You may have a riveting plot and beautifully written story, but if your characters are unlikeable, unrelatable, or worse, one-dimensional, your...
by Penny Freeman | Dec 6, 2013 | Featured Friday, Writing
BY J. AUREL GUAY Editor’s note: as a fresh approach to introducing our authors to their audience, Featured Friday will now include their short stories, in addition to their insight and commentary. For our inaugural offering, J. Aurel Guay has allowed us to...
by Penny Freeman | Dec 3, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY TERRI WAGNER Paragraph development is a tricky affair. How many of you took speech class in college? I ask because that’s the same MO as terrific paragraph development. Staying focused on what your paragraph is supposed to convey. Easy? Should be. But reality tells...
by Penny Freeman | Nov 25, 2013 | Writing
In anticipation of this Friday’s release of the Steampunk action/adventure A Midsummer Night’s Steampunk, we offer this interview of its author, Scott E. Tarbet. The X: Tell us a little about yourself. Tarbet: The #1 thing to know about me is that I am...
by Penny Freeman | Nov 7, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY TERRI WAGNER As writers, we often get bogged down in grammar issues when we are actually trying to focus on content. As a result, both our content and our grammar suffer. I know you have read pieces of work that were on target with grammar, and the content was...
by Penny Freeman | Oct 30, 2013 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY MCKENNA GARDNER Character names tell a story just as much as the choices the characters make and the events going on around them. As an author, it is your responsibility to create strong, believable characters, and a very important aspect of those characters is...
