by Autumn | Jan 16, 2015 | Tips, Writing
Do you want to be the hero of your story, your life? I would expect that most people would say yes. That, to them, their life is about them, and not about playing a supporting role to someone else’s story. We experience life in first person. Every one of us. Even when...
by Autumn | Jan 9, 2015 | Friends of my Enemy, Writing
When I started this series of ‘What’s in a Genre’ I expected to be researching definitions to clarify what a reader expected when they chose a category. I didn’t realize how many genres would have such fuzzy boundaries! Military fiction is another of those. What I...
by Autumn | Oct 24, 2014 | Born of Water, Games of Fire, Rule of Fire, Spirit of Life, The World of Myrrah, Writing
Continuing my series on defining genres, I’m switching from my dystopian WIP to my other work-in-progress, Games of Fire. This is a new epic fantasy trilogy and I’m in the first third of book 1, Spark of Defiance. But why do I call it and the Rise of the Fifth Order...
by Autumn | Apr 25, 2014 | Born of Water, Rule of Fire, Spirit of Life, The World of Myrrah, Tips, Writing
Planning a trilogy is not the same as writing a novel. Especially when, like so many new authors, I wrote the first book without much of a concept on what would happen next – or even if there would be a next. I was happy to have written a book at that point!...
by Autumn | Jan 29, 2014 | Spirit of Life, Writing
I recently finished writing my first draft of Spirit of Life! This is, of course, the third book and final installment in my current epic fantasy series, the Rise of Fifth Order. So, I’m very excited, though I know the first draft is just the beginning of getting this...
