Review: Cat Star Chronicles: Warrior, by Cheryl Brooks
tl;dr: If you’re a man, or a writer, don’t read this. Just… don’t. I can’t speak for women who don’t write. A friend of mine recommended the Cat Star Chronicles to me a long time ago. After all, I write catboy/catgirl smut, I should be able to enjoy some of it. So let me say off [...]
Showing Too Much.
Show, don’t tell. It’s not just a great song by Rush, it’s a battlecry of writers everywhere to the raw recruits. Over and over, we writers are told, it is import to show the story through the eyes of the characters, through the words they say and do, through the events they hear, see, and [...]
Good news, and apologies…
I just paid my server bill. Look like y’all will have me for another year. Thanks to everyone who contributed last year and helped keep The Journal Entries and my other works on the air. Also, I want to apologize to people who may have commented recently. I seem not to be getting emails from [...]
Character names, a nifty trick for getting them right in contemporary writing
Let’s say you need a female character, a beautiful French assassin who’s 26 years old. And you want her name to be right. Here’s a nifty trick I tried and it actually worked: Go to google translate and say you want to translate from English to French, and your term is “Most popular baby names [...]
From today’s WIP:
The story is called Last Will, but I’ve got it in mind as Jessinica and Gwo, after the two main characters: ”But… how will I get back to my sarcophagus?””You can hire a guide, if you need one. They’re much cheaper than lawyers, I assure you. Good day.” With that, a tophat materialized in vir [...]
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