Funny enough, this phrase was coined in a fan-fiction. And if you don’t know what fan-fiction is, I think you are better off, but it’s just as the name suggests. It’s stories people write off of established books, movies, games, etc. Fanfiction has no bounds, but it’s also very scary…

I feel like I’ve seen this everywhere. It’s become like a buzz word in the writing community. Write a novel in a month. But the more I thought about it, the more I have really thought about where it comes from, where it is going, is it cotton eyed Joe…

That’s so Meta? What in the world does this even mean? I feel so out of the loop. It’s one of those words that you’re like, yeah, okay and you have a sense of what it means, but when I think about it, I have no idea what they’re talking…

Philosophy and fiction writing go hand in hand… and I know what you’re thinking, ugg, not the guys from a hundred years ago rocking togas and a tad bit of a condescending tone telling me what to do and how to live my life, no thank you. And, yes, you’re…

Natural setting. What are you talking about? You mean where the story is taking place? Yeah, I got that. It takes place in modern day so I’ll be fine…..mmmmm will you though. Natural setting is not something I see talked about a lot in world building, it’s touched on but…

Having more questions than answers is a fun way to live life because you always have something to think about. Like why are we here? What is my purpose? Why do people connect with writing? And one I’ve been thinking about for a while…

Nothing is ever just one thing, not in life and not in writing. Everything is nuanced if you look at it long enough. So when I say side character your mind probably goes to some famous one like Randy from Scream, or Sam from Lord of the Rings, or Jimmy…

Joseph Campbell, my man. Joseph, noticed the common theme in mythology, and constructed the monomyth. The hero’s journey is up there when it comes to story structures. I really like it because it has emphasis on both plot and character, which is usually my problem with most structures. They help…

I’ve been talking about characters quite a bit as of late because really they are what make your story. Think about it: okay world + great characters = amazing book; terrible characters + amazing world = a DNF (did not finish) book, because there was nothing to pull your reader…