Dragon Soul Press sat down to interview Charity Ayres, an author featured in Dragons and Heroines. 1. How long have you been writing? I honestly don’t remember the first time I wrote a story. Maybe in grade school? I know that I was working on my first novel in high school. I never finished it, … Continue reading Author Interview with Charity Ayres
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Tighten Up Your Story: Dealing With Filler
One of the problems with amateur writers is that they tend to overwrite their narratives. Some of the bigger and more obvious examples are involving new characters who are undeveloped and don’t serve much of a purpose, a side arc that is introduced, but never resolved, unnecessary scenes, and purple prose used for mundane scenes. … Continue reading Tighten Up Your Story: Dealing With Filler
Author Interview with Emily S. Hurricane
We had a chance to interview an author in the Love At First Sip anthology. The collection provides a drink recipe in front of the short story associated with it. What inspired you to start writing? You know, I don’t even remember! I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I wrote … Continue reading Author Interview with Emily S. Hurricane
How to Critique & Edit Your Own Work
First off, understand that the first draft of what you are going to write is most definitely going to cause you to cringe and want to burn it on sight. I would not recommend this since editing it is fairly easy, and there’s no reason to give your neighbors a heart attack with squealing smoke … Continue reading How to Critique & Edit Your Own Work
Things I Wish I Knew
Every writer probably has had the following experience: You’re at a birthday party or some type of gathering, when you get asked, “what do you do.” With great hesitance, you take a deep breath and reply, “I’m a writer.” And once you’ve dropped your bomb, you wait for the explosion. Normally, one of two things … Continue reading Things I Wish I Knew
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