Character & Environment, in Honor of Earth Day

Myths and Legends abound with fears and stories of natural disasters. Humans have this ability to shove the natural world away, and forget it's out there. if it's too rainy, or too windy, or too hot, or too--whatever, we complain. As if the weather the world were constructed for our inconvenience....

5 Reasons to Use Short Story Writing when Prewriting

Lately I've been focused on a self-imposed short story writing frenzy. So here are some of my thoughts on why short story writing is helpful. 1) World Building In Fantasy writing especially, but also in any piece of fiction, the rules of “the world” dictate much about your characters’ actions....

In a World where the Print Industry Falters

--A friend dressing up for last year's Horror Movie Night, put on by SWS. Barnes & Noble. Borders. Now, there are big names migrating to self-publishing...what is this world we have wandered into? Questions of how much quality writing will exist in the future abound. Pessimistic comments float...

(Re)Building Lara with Polyvore

I'm going to try this one out for a week! We'll see how well I like it :D Meanwhile, I have been distracted by Lookbook and Polyvore... It can be fun to create characters' outfits on Polyvore. Mind, all the branding makes these items far more expensive than my High School student characters in Wished...