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7 Tips to Writing about Vampires

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

There are plenty of types of vampires, so how do you make a list of tips to writing about them?  You pray really hard and do your best. That and you start off with the disclaimer that you’re working off … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Being Dramatic . . . In Fiction

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

Adding drama into your writing can be tough and many are leery about adding this due it skewing toward the negative.  Yet, it’s fairly unavoidable if you sit down and consider what can be born from it.  We may even … Continue reading →

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2017 Top 5: #4- Why Not Write About the Writing Craft?

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

This post originally went live on August 21. A lot of author blogs focus on the writing craft and make posts about tenses, grammar, plot creation, genre, and other topics.  Others go into the nuances of Amazon, marketing, and whatever … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Being an Author: Who Put Glass on This Road?

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Charles Yallowitz

Full disclosure on this one:  I’m not sure what this was supposed to be about.  There are times I get an idea for a post, jot it down in shorthand, and assume I’ll remember what I meant later.  Less than … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Maintaining a Long Term Blog

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Charles Yallowitz

I realized as I chose topics for the Warlord of the Forgotten Age promotion that I should probably talk about blogging.  I started mine in December of 2012, which was about 3 months before I released Beginning of a Hero and I had … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Writing Villain Friendships

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Charles Yallowitz

Let’s be honest.  Bad guys can have friends too.  You don’t see it very often though.  We like to believe that villains are incapable of having a positive relationship.  They always have to backstab, betray, and connive against those that … Continue reading →

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Why Not Write About the Writing Craft?

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Charles Yallowitz

A lot of author blogs focus on the writing craft and make posts about tenses, grammar, plot creation, genre, and other topics.  Others go into the nuances of Amazon, marketing, and whatever else comes after you hit ‘PUBLISH’.  These are … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Maintaining a Happy Marriage in a World of Magic & Monsters

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Charles Yallowitz

Marriages are rare in adventure stories, but only because it’s hard to swashbuckle and disarm traps while cleaning the oven.  That and authors seem to love killing off a spouse to get the survivor riled up.  Tradition, thy name is … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Writing Bards in Fiction

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Charles Yallowitz

So, you want to add some local flavor and history without an info dump done by a spectral narrator.  Nothing too much, but you have some stories to tell.  The heroes have no idea since they never studied and the … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Fighting with Speed

Posted on May 10, 2017 by Charles Yallowitz

One of the best ways to handle strength is speed, which is what we’re going to look at this time.  Luke Callindor and Sari are the big speed fighters.  Their styles are familiar similar, but Sari uses more magic and … Continue reading →

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