Hello Everyone!It’s been a little over a full week into the new year and I couldn’t help but reflect on this brief time period. I did so because I realized this week is not a good sign that this would be a good and productive year. In fact, if this week is anything to go … Continue reading Reviewing Habits a Week into the New Year
Tag: Writing
New Year, Tempered Ambitions
Happy New Year!2021, in all honesty, felt like the sequel to 2020 that no one asked for. It was hard to persevere through with all the positives and many many negatives. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been affected in some adverse way. I know for myself I became even more of a hermit than … Continue reading New Year, Tempered Ambitions
My Top 5 Characters of 2021
2021 was not as fantastic or as productive a year as I had hoped. I hadn’t read or experienced as many stories as I had wanted to. But, in a strange way, it made the character stories that I did experience far more impactful. I was very dejected this year, struggling to do anything productive … Continue reading My Top 5 Characters of 2021
Author Update #5
Hello Everyone, For the first time in what feels like the last year and a half, I finally feel like I’m getting back into the creative groove of things. I’ve been able to write and draw more consistently than I had before. I think part of that is because I’ve been challenging myself with tasks … Continue reading Author Update #5
Discussion in World Building – Community, Society and History
Over the past few months, I had been struggling with progressing book 3’s story. I thought I had everything planned out and set to write this sequel without issue. However, similar to book 1 and 2, as I wrote, I started to notice other characters and story elements were developing far more than I had … Continue reading Discussion in World Building – Community, Society and History
Discussion in World Building – Geography
Worldbuilding is a diverse and monumental challenge for any writer. Creating a world from one’s imagination, whether based on reality, history, or made up completely, presents many difficulties that require careful attention to detail. But how does one start? How does someone create a living, breathing and thriving world in which a story takes place? … Continue reading Discussion in World Building – Geography
Author Update #4
Hello everyone, It’s been a while since I’ve given an update on the writing side of things. Am I on schedule for my book releases? Not exactly. Is it something I hope to fix in the next couple months? Most definitely. The past year has been a roller coaster of motivation, discipline, with varying fluctuations … Continue reading Author Update #4
Return from Hiatus and Reflections
Hello everyone! The past month admittedly hasn’t been as productive as I hoped it would. For the majority of the year I’ve been struggling to write and draw consistently. I’m not too sure what it was, maybe the exhaustion from the pandemic or the more isolationist lifestyle I’ve found myself in, but I found getting … Continue reading Return from Hiatus and Reflections
Writing an interesting protagonist – Struggles & Flaws
In a character driven story, almost no one wants to watch the characters effortlessly push through the plot without any kind of hurdle or obstacle to overcome. Those kind of stories often tend to be power fantasies that, while entertaining and enjoyable, are often more superficial and focused on a lot of action but very … Continue reading Writing an interesting protagonist – Struggles & Flaws
Writing an interesting protagonist – Goals & Motivation
In a character driven story, the protagonist needs a goal to push the story through. There’s something tangible that the character is trying to achieve that either they succeed in the end or they fail, but that goal needs to be established. What that goal is can be literally anything so long as the writer … Continue reading Writing an interesting protagonist – Goals & Motivation
Raph's Cozy Musings 