Research Resources: Ancient Remedies
Research Resources Ancient Remedies Once upon a time, a looooong time ago on the Visual Adjectives Forum, we had a thread called Healers,...
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bobbi515
- May 23
- 1 min
World Building: Color Your World- Blue
COLOR YOUR WORLD is a series of threads to provide lists of synonyms for different colors. All too often, writers resort to using the...
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The Muse
- May 16
- 1 min
Research Resources- Character Building 101: Basic Personality Types
So we have all heard of "type a" personalities, its generally well known that they are aggresive, hard hitting, in-your-face type of...
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The Muse
- May 9
- 4 min
Keys to Literary Success: Creating Suspense in Fiction in a Few Simple Steps
Photo by Micha Frank on Unsplash To keep the readers’ attention through the long midsection of your book, you’ll need to continually...
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The Muse
- Dec 13, 2022
- 3 min
World Building - Deity Pantheons: Finnish
In researching the various pantheons of gods, I came across several pantheons that I hadn't considered...although I probably should have....
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The Muse
- Dec 11, 2022
- 1 min
Color Your World: Grey
Color Your World is a series of posts to provide lists of synonyms for different colors. All too often authors and writers resort to...
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The Muse
- Dec 8, 2022
- 5 min
Research Resources: Ancient Remedies and Herbal Lore
In our latest post on foraging, there was a brief mention of gathering herbs in the foraging experience. Again, since we are looking at...
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The Muse
- Dec 8, 2022
- 2 min
Research Resources: SURVIVAL - Foraging for Food and Medicinal Herbs
In writing of a fictional story, especially fantasy or historical, you may well have characters finding themselves in a position which...
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mlawrence27
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
You name it, there's a book for it.
Mythical creatures, terms, lost words, expressions, dictionary, middle ages, riddles, puzzles, castles, Latin Quotes, architecture,...
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The Muse
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
New authors 101: How to prepare your book for Ebook conversion
Ebooks are as much an industry standard as printed books. In this post, we're going to share with you how you go about preparing your...
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The Muse
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
Color Your World : Purple
Our Color Your World series is to provide a list of synonyms for different colors. All too often, writers resort to using the same word...
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The Muse
- Dec 2, 2022
- 3 min
World Building Resources: Bread
It is pretty hard to write a story without food coming up SOMEWHERE in the narrative. It almost always, at least in the fantasy or...
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The Muse
- Nov 29, 2022
- 2 min
Color Your World: Orange
Our Color Your World series is to provide a list of synonyms for different colors. All too often, writers resort to using the same word...
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The Muse
- Nov 27, 2022
- 3 min
World Building - Deity Pantheons: Egypt
Movies such as The Gods of Egypt, The Mummy, The Pyramid and the Scorpion King and streaming shows such as Moon Knight introduced lots of...
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The Muse
- Nov 24, 2022
- 3 min
The Key to Literary Success: EDITING
Editing covers a great deal of territory. So here we will attempt to condense and simplify things a bit so you know where to begin....
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The Muse
- Nov 20, 2022
- 9 min
Round Table Discussion: Difficulties Involved When Writing About Racism and Prejudice.
Chair Two - In your own words...What is the difference between Racism and Prejudice? Can a person be Racist but not Prejudice? Can a...
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The Muse
- Nov 18, 2022
- 1 min
Science Fiction World Building Research Resources : Alien Life Forms
Its easy to write characters and build characters when they based on the familiar. On beings we encounter everyday...humans, to be exact....
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The Muse
- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
Round Table discussions: Why the English Language is So Hard to Learn.
Chair One: When we first found these statements, the author was unknown to us. Since that time, with some research, they have been...
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The Muse
- Nov 16, 2022
- 4 min
World Building- Deity Pantheons: Norse
Thanks to Marvel movies, everyone knows who Thor is...and Loki, and Odin and Heimdall and... You get the idea. However, there is an...
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mlawrence27
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min
Tips for Effective Query Letters
A query letter should be a single page cover letter that introduces you (the author) and your book. Just that. Nothing more, nothing...
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