Category: Book Writing


  • 5 Issues I Realized Writing A Homicide Most Fungal – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds

    Return to the mushroom metropolis of Neo Kinoko, immerse your self in a sinister world of gangsters, blackmail, and fungal delicacies, and put together for a Michelin-star tragedy in six programs. The knives are out on this fast-paced, standalone Fungalverse novel. Set a number of months after the occasions of the award-winning Mushroom Blues, this…

  • Decision Isn’t the Solely Payoff: What Brief Tales Educate Us About Endings

    Picture by Petr Slováček on Unsplash In the present day’s visitor put up is by author, editor, and e book coach Karmen H. Špiljak. As an avid reader of quick tales, I’ve at all times been inquisitive about what makes a few of them linger. As soon as I began to investigate them, it grew to…

  • The best way to Write Mythic Fiction: 7 Practices to Reconnect With the Misplaced Artwork of Mythmaking

    What’s mythic fiction, and the way can we write it? Earlier this month, I shared a submit about methods to write mythic fiction, by which I mentioned the distinction between adapting inherited myths (i.e., simply retelling the previous symbolic tales again and again in “new” methods) versus creating our personal myths. My suggestion was that…

  • Tor launches Clocktower Publishing | Jane Friedman

    Tor (Macmillan) has partnered with a sport firm to launch a collection of novels and novellas set on this planet of the favored occasion sport Blood on the Clocktower, set in a cursed Victorian city terrorized by a demon. Every ebook shall be written by an creator who’s already a religious participant of the sport. Study…

  • Not All Principal Characters Must Be Likeable

    Picture by RDNE Inventory mission At present’s visitor publish is by creator Christina Wyman. As an creator of fiction for kids and an essayist of nonfiction for adults, I usually encounter questions—and opinions—about character and narrator likeability. However I additionally perceive the gravitational pull towards this matter as a reader. Who needs to endure tales…

  • The way to Select the Proper Character Arc for Your Story

    Studying how to decide on the correct character arc is among the most necessary selections you’ll make on your story. Whether or not you’re writing a Optimistic Change Arc, a Flat Arc, or a Unfavourable Arc, the arc you select will form every thing from plot construction to theme to emotional resonance. Creating Character Arcs…

  • Tor launches Clocktower Publishing | Jane Friedman

    Based on the ABA’s annual report, greater than 600 brick-and-mortar, pop-up, and cell bookstores have been added to the ranks of the American Booksellers Affiliation in 2025, a lot of them reflecting the expansion of romance and romantasy. The group has grown 151 p.c during the last six years, and the vast majority of shops have…

  • 5 Issues I Realized Writing Grief Eater – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds

    Visceral, gritty, and unforgiving, GRIEF EATER is a zombie story such as you’ve by no means learn earlier than.  When Kristina rises from her violent demise, she’s not the identical fragile lady her household as soon as deserted. She’s rageful, highly effective, and hungry—for the blood of those who had been supposed to like her.…

  • Be So Good the Robots Are Irrelevant

    Picture by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash In the present day’s put up is by SaaS copywriter Alexander Lewis (@alexander-j-lewis). I should have been 11. I sat alone on our upstairs sofa studying a thriller novel. In it, a child my age wandered by a darkish forest. One thing, some anonymous creature, stalked him within the evening. Noises…

  • The Calamities Tour! August Dates Now Dwell – Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds

    Fiends, demons, darkish souls and freaks! You must come see me on tour for The Calamities, popping out in August. Why must you do that? Since you want to pledge your timeless loyalty to me uhh I imply since you need the e-book and also you need me to speak good phrases at you and…