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To Fear or Not to Fear: World-building

To Fear or Not to Fear: World-building

by Joy | Mar 22, 2018 | C.S. Lewis, creativity, doubt and fear, genre, goals, Indie Authors, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, world-building, writing process

Fantasy—the one genre I swore I would never, no how, no way write. Guess what I’m writing? In order to write fantasy, I have to do something incredibly more difficult than piecing words together to make a book; it’s called world-building. This is the third...
Everyone Has a Story: Why I Write

Everyone Has a Story: Why I Write

by Joy | Feb 22, 2018 | dream of authorship, genre, goals, inspiration, novel, writers, writing process

I love to write. Always have.  Some of my first stories came from a chubby Snoopy pencil. (Anyone else remember those fat pencils that seemed way too big for tiny beginning writers’ hands?) I covered and wrote about my first event before I hit double digits. I...
Wanted: Literary Divining Rod

Wanted: Literary Divining Rod

by Joy | Jun 29, 2017 | creativity, doubt and fear, dream of authorship, fiction, genre, goals, non-fiction, stories, writing, writing process

Have you ever wished you could take out wanted ads for life? Wanted: one house elf to wash dishes, scrub baseboards, clean toilets and complete other equally annoying tasks   Wanted: a Lewis to my Tolkien (Don’t laugh, but I actually wrote this one out and...
So, What Genre Do You Write?

So, What Genre Do You Write?

by Joy | Jun 8, 2017 | C.S. Lewis, genre, Inklings, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, literature, logos, mythos, stories, writing, writing process

Ah! The dreaded question! I believe I am more than a single genre. How can I squeeze all my thoughts, ideas and interests into just one genre? Is it odd that I can’t fit myself into a sole category? Misfits unite! Come to think of it, I’ve never fit into one...
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