https://youtu.be/ClaEXVuFo4Y Eskara Helsene has been many things: an angry teenager, the victim of brainwashing and abuse, queen and villain and an enemy to the gods themselves. In Death's Beating Heart, she aims for the stars by trying to save the world from Sevorai's nightmarish hunger, Norvet Meruun. The issues with that are numerous: first among... Continue Reading →
Writing Advice: Memorable Characters
How do we create memorable characters? Well, you'd need a dozen eggs, a bit of vanilla and seventeen cups of sugar to make your average Mary Sue; or you could whip yourself good old-fashioned one-dimensional characters by doing the same thing you'd do to get stale bread -- don't spend any time cooking them up... Continue Reading →