Recent content by Bekka King

I like the idea of blogging fragments of chapters. Posting fragments can help generate interest without "giving away the house." Many writers do a variation of that on Twitter - posting sentence fragments. There's even a Twitter hashtag for that - WIP ("Work in Progress"). I've started...

J.K. Rowling did this in the Harry Potter series by including muggles in the stories. She did a great job of showing the wizarding and muggle worlds side by side.

To clarify, it's not that the book is written with references to humor. Rather, it is humorously written. I find the anecdotes he tells and the way he tells them to be hilariously funny, thereby a demonstration of funny writing.

Two additional resources might be helpful. Neither specifically "teach" humor writing, but very creatively demonstrate the use of humor in the course of presenting material: 1) Stephen King's book "On Writing." Probably available at your local library. 2) Billy Crystal's 2014 "movie"...

Agreed. I like the site.

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Anyone trying to recreate a medieval environment in a world might find this useful. Medieval Traffic Problems JANUARY 17, 2016 BY MEDIEVALISTS.NET The medieval city was seen as a crowded, bustling place, with people, horses, carts and wagons all moving around. Just as in our modern city...

Currently reading The Whispering Swarm. You were right to suggest it! Thanks.

Katherine Kurtz' Adept series.

Combining Greek and Gaelic could produce some interesting results - and feasibly.

I'd go with their original name from where they came from. It adds flavor and context to the story be educating the reader about another aspect of the world you've created (i.e., explain something about where the character came from). Changing their name to fit the language in the place they've...

I'm just emerging from a period of procrastination. Two things helped: 1) For one book (my fantasy book), I gave myself a deadline for publication, then started holding myself accountable to several writer friends AND publicized a "launch party" for a date I chose for the book. Now, I have to...

The rule-of-thumb I've picked up is that the best stories are kept tight and that everything in the story must somehow serve the plot. If the demographic you have in mind for your books would enjoy having a cute dragon in the story (such as young readers), I'd be inclined to keep the character...

I've been happy with Toshibas for laptops. Comparatively stable and reliable.

Elfenrod is another option. A rather sophisticated variation.