Recent content by black magic

It depends on what you call genius? Genius as in writing a masterpiece or genius as in seeing what sells and writing that to makes millions. Everyone is different and you'll bring a new style to writing. Everyone had different strengths. Try to focus on you and not on those that have come...

I tended to view my first draft as like an extremely detailed plan. I tried to put off my research until the first draft was complete otherwise I just got bogged down in tons of research with 90% of it being unnecessary. I'd just leave myself notes that research on swords was needed there...

I feel a lot of things. Often mentally exhausted and I've often take a few months break before reading any of it. Exhilarated. Sad the ride is over. Dreading the second draft. I mean, it's a mixed bag really.

I used to get stuck in world-building, character profiles and plot dynamics for years sometimes, until I'd bored myself with the story and I hadn't even written my first line. I have folders full of plans and nothing else. So for me it was a balance. I wasn't one of those writer's who could say...

We writers can just come up with stuff that normal folks don't tend to do. We get an idea for a plot or a character and we flesh it out. My world-building was always the same. It usually included maps as many of my early stuff required journeys and I was a Tolkien fan and my Grand-dad read me...

I almost never remember my dreams. Or when a day or two they are forgotten. But I had a dream when I was around 13-14 that I based a school writing assignment on and now I'm trying to work it into a novel. How I'll do that I've no idea. But sometimes dreams are a good place to draw from it you...

This is a little subjective because some people do seem to like mystery to their magic. It just works, kind of thing, and that's it. Others do seem to like it to follow rules, laws and patterns with consequences or requirements. I like it when it kind of follows the Butterfly Effect. One little...

In High School we had to do this piece of creative writing and I was so glad because I all ready wrote novels all the time. I wrote out a story - no idea what it was about now. During that week I had this weird dream...I was in my home with my parents, siblings, family and even some high school...