It seems that fantasy, and all other genres, really, are plagued with clichés and when people see them, they make crosses from their pointer fingers and call upon a priest to perform a ritualistic exorcism. The thing is, though, no matter how much those people bitch and moan about the existence of a cliché [...]

What I know of fantasy is that a lot of what you’re writing can be made up, including the names of places, things and people. Changing letters and letter order in common names to make them look more “fantasy-like” is a common practice, along with just flat out making names up. I am [...]

Originally posted on Finding Boddie in January, just after I got the announcement.
Well, not really. I got serious about submissions when I was 17 and then it grossly tapered off not long after that. I submitted half-assedly while I was in school, sending a piece or two into the designated literary magazines for the colleges [...]

A blog chain is a pretty cool thing that allows other people to wander into your blog, comment on your post and then wander back out to write something relatively relating to what you posted, hence the “chain” effect. Also, as I’ve already said, it’s done in your blog, hence “blog.” Put the [...]

So here I am thinking that I’m having issues with the voice even after I got all that good advice from my AW peeps that I sit down to start to write the hack that I have from a different point of view (POV). I look at the typed words, look at the blank piece [...]

This was originally part of my Rowr For Powerful Words meme that I mention on my Awards page from Finding Boddie but, since it’s writing-centric, it’s come here. I’ve decided not to post the entire meme since it’s not relevant anymore but my points are still valid.

Persistence–First and foremost a writer needs to be [...]

This is the pirate wench I speak of. Well, she’s not really a pirate, nor a wench but she’s driving me up a freakin‘ wall, that’s for sure. This is Layla, the main character (MC) from my Coney Island story. See? I wasn’t lying in my aside when I said I couldn’t draw [...]