Sometimes tropes should be broken. What is a trope? In the literary sense, a trope is an often used, even over-used theme. Perfect example – the heroine in a horror movie who runs away, only to trip while running and be brutally murdered. These are many and varied, but comfortable and familiar. The elder wizard…
Tag: writing
Sharing My Love of the Written Word for the Holidays
I have always been a fan of the written word. I started reading at a young age, and when my family began to get shaken up, I think I probably escaped into books a lot. Writing has always come easily to me. Genre, topic, doesn’t entirely matter to me. When I get to put words…
What Am I Thankful For This Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving means different things to different people. Yes, we could get into all kinds of discussions about celebrating a piece of history that has all sorts of twists and turns. Certainly we can examine the faults of the Pilgrims and the awful things that happened to the Native Americans. But I would much rather look…
What Do I Name This Thing?
Sometimes it takes me a while to find the name. When I first began work on The Source Chronicles, it was my unnamed Fantasy project. I began my glossary so I could track the characters, and I called it The Source. This would, in turn, lead me to find the plot, whereby my mysterious sorcerer…
How Do I Earn a Living This Way?
I want to earn a living wage through writing. Yet for most of my life, I have been told that this is a pipe dream. Various people have told me that to earn money as an author is tricky at best. I should be realistic. It’s important I recognize that I still need to hold…
How Am I Breaking from Typical Story Tropes?
It’s fun to break away from the typical story tropes. For years I have wanted to write a sci-fi “space opera”. An epic along the lines of a Star Wars or a Star Trek, but as unique as I could make it. One of the problems you face with these things is that there have…
What am I Currently Working on?
I began to work on my fantasy series, The Source Chronicles, in 1997. I was at work, bored, and tapped out this scene that popped into my head. Then, two more scenes were written, and now I had three main characters, and the story began to take shape. As I worked on the novel I…
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