Tag: Writer's Life
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Building Antarctica 2: Birth of Governments and Economies
Welcome back to my series about worldbuilding Antarctica! This is a series where I discuss behind-the-scenes worldbuilding details about my series Post-Third Apocalypse (PTA). In my previous article, I discussed the inspiration for PTA and also my purposes for including the three different apocalypses that shook the world. Of course, being a (former) political science…
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Four Methods for Overcoming Writer’s Block
So you are suffering from the malady of writer’s block. The gods must favor you to inflict you with such an illness, to try to turn you from the path of being a writer. Why, you ask? Surely, if you’ve made it this far, then you know: Being a writer is a cursed existence. To…
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Writer-Character Conflation Syndrome
While I was at the writers conference, I had the weirdest experience. I was standing in line for the cafeteria dinner when I spotted the menu and my heart immediately leapt in happiness—Brussel sprouts! Then I frowned. Because, you see, I don’t like Brussel sprouts. It’s my caterpillar character, Shuapoka, who likes Brussel sprouts. And…
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5 Tips to Making the Most out of a Writers Conference
I am at a writers conference!!!!!!! (In case you can’t tell, I’m excited) The conference I’m at is the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference, or BRMCWC for short (not that the acronym is much shorter than the actual name). It’s an annual conference of about 500 writers who identify as Christian/write Christian pieces to…