Tag: writing advice
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How to write a trilogy (in three easy steps)
A couple of weeks ago I penned the last sentence in the True Born Trilogy. Now that I’ve finished a draft of the third novel (whose title I’m not sure I’m at liberty to tell you yet – but book two, True North, is slated for release in April 2017) I feel like I’ve really…
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A Love Letter to Wattpad
Dear Wattpad, In late December 2014, I was sitting in a hotel room in a foreign country by myself, pondering my future. Not just my future – the future of my books. All of my books. The books I’ve written, the books I’ve published, the books I’d half-written in my head but didn’t have time…
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Description: Part 2 – Watching the Detectives
Describing what it felt like to stand on the lip of the ocean at sunset. Easy, right? You could probably go on for pages and pages. But what if you’re wrestling with a werewolf detective before the local vampire clan attacks? What if the assassin hired by Zob is about to level your building with…
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The Writing World
You dream of mermaids in a world of gilt jellyfish, girls who drop flowers and gemstones when they speak, men who battle monsters to rescue girls they have only seen in paintings. The world of your imagination is so beautiful, so luminous, it defies description. So why is it so hard to make it real…
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Description – Part I: Friend or Frenemy?
Description can be your best friend. Equally, it can be like that frenemy who talks about you behind your back and steals your boyfriend. I’ve been on both ends of this particular lesson. As a Master’s student in Creative Writing one of my teachers went so far as to indicate that I “overdid” description in…
L. E. Sterling 