Meredith Bond·Oct 4Your Book World — Spread It Around!We authors work really hard on creating the perfect setting for our novels. We agonize over every little detail — is the map right? Is the…
Meredith Bond·Aug 165 Things that should be in your Style SheetBefore I even get started on this week’s blog post, I’m going to give you a warning. While this is essentially about Style Sheets, the…
Meredith Bond·May 17Craft: Creating Realistic CharactersThere is nothing that makes a reader put down a book faster than boring characters. Even if your plot is fascinating and action-packed, if…
Meredith Bond·Apr 19Book Review: Author Stuck ListThe Author Stuck list by Becca Syme is Syme’s Author Stuck Cards in book form. The book (and cards) are for any author who is having…
Meredith Bond·Mar 30Obsidian for AuthorsLast week I talked about some of the tools in my writer’s toolbox. This week, I want to get into some detail about how I use Obsidian.
Meredith Bond·Feb 22Writing When You’re Too Busy to WriteI’ve got a coaching client who hasn’t sent me anything to read in advance of our weekly coaching sessions for a month. We’ve been working…
AJ Boltt·Feb 16How to Write: Multiple POVsAs a fantasy reader and writer, I’m most comfortable in the world of 3rd person POV. However, if you’re writing a fantasy epic, how do you…
Meredith Bond·Feb 8Ten Tips to Writing Dialogue RightI’ve been reading a sad amount of iffy dialogue recently from overuse of names to unnatural sounding speech to wrong punctuation. So, I…
Meredith Bond·Jan 18Craft: To-dos and moreObsidian just wasn’t doing it for me in keeping track of my tasks.
