by Joy | Aug 29, 2019 | authors, Editing, Revisions, world-building, writers, writing, writing process
We’ve all been there. Mid-way through a novel, we draw a blank on a character’s hair color and realize that secondary character has been pregnant a little too long. So, how can we keep it all straight? I’m sharing what I do as we examine how to track timelines and...
by Joy | Oct 4, 2018 | fantasy, fiction, short story, world-building
The following is a story from a series of short fiction exploring some of the Faerie Shepherds and Shepherdesses within my fantasy world. Read below the story for further explanation and head over to my first tale in this series if you’d like to read more!...
by Joy | Aug 23, 2018 | dream of authorship, goals, inspiration, short story, world-building, writing process
Most recently my writing has focused on literary fiction, but that’s not all I’ve written this year! I also participated in a short story contest earlier. Backstory You may remember that for the past couple of years, I’ve had an entire fantasy series...
by Joy | Mar 22, 2018 | C.S. Lewis, creativity, doubt and fear, genre, goals, Indie Authors, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, world-building, writing process
Fantasy—the one genre I swore I would never, no how, no way write. Guess what I’m writing? In order to write fantasy, I have to do something incredibly more difficult than piecing words together to make a book; it’s called world-building. This is the third...
