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How Not To Write A Character – Mary Sue

By chris on February 10, 2021

So, you’re finally writing! Time to develop your main character or MC as the words start to pile up. Here is what NOT to do. Do not write a “Mary Sue.” In short, do not write the idealized, “perfect” version of yourself. As always here is the video version of this blog post: So what […]

How To Write Without Info Dumping

By chris on January 21, 2021

So, You need to get information across to your readers about a character, the world you are writing in and more but what you don’t want to do is use to much exposition (a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea) and just tell them everything. Otherwise known as an info dump. You want to […]

Meet The Cast of The Crimson Gods!

By chris on January 14, 2021

As the Indiegogo campaign is under way, I thought it time to introduce a few of the main POV characters in The Crimson Gods. For this one, the video is a better option, which gets into some of their personality traits, but below is the first look at Ashaya, Amari and Sirich! A special thanks […]

The Science Of Storytelling

By chris on January 1, 2021

So, how do stories actually work? What happens in that grey matter between our ears? This week lets discuss a few psychological phenomenon that occur when we read. That way we can keep this in mind as we write! As usual you can see the video essay here: Stories are incredibly powerful and have real […]

Delete These Words From Your Novel (Mostly)

By chris on December 17, 2020

As new authors we tend to overthink our writing. We want to be “real” writers, so we overthink our prose and overuse words in an attempt to make it more “poetic”. Save that shit for poetry! With that said here are some types of words that you should axe from your manuscript. (Again, not in […]

How To Write Dialogue – Formatting and Punctuation

By chris on December 10, 2020

“Do I use an ellipses or a em dash? Does the comma go inside the quotation marks or out? So many questions when writing, especially that pesky dialogue with all of its rules. Today we will demystify how to properly format your dialogue. As always you can watch the video version here: Here are 6 […]

How To Write: Bind Your Story Together With Foreshadowing!

By chris on November 30, 2020

So you are writing your book, or thinking about it. You feel like there may be something missing? Your outline not quite lining up? Not sure how to tie things together? How can you link point A to B? As always you can watch the video version of this article here: Think back to any […]

Honest Writing Advice For Beginners

By chris on November 19, 2020

Welcome back to #WritingWednesday’s where I give more writing tips and advice both here and in video form on the YouTube channel. Today lets dive into some honest, (and sometimes harsh) advice for those would be authors out there that are looking to write their first book. As usual here is the video version for […]

How To Write Character Profiles

By chris on November 12, 2020

Characters are the most important aspect of writing. It doesn’t matter how perfect your made-up world is, if readers cant relate to the characters that fill that world…well, what’s the point? The most common writing tool to help with this is writing character profiles. Essentially this is simply a list of all the aspects of […]

5 Writing Exercises To Improve Your Writing!

By chris on October 29, 2020

Hey y’all! Keeping with my new YouTube upload schedule here is my latest writing advice; exercises to improve your writing. This week I discuss a few, (well 5 to be precise) writing exercises for beginners or those perhaps with a case of writers block, or for anyone that just wants to improve your writing. Read […]