Recent content by Daenelia

I have two bookshelves of reference books and manuals on grammar and writing styles from my university days. Doesn't mean any of it stuck in my head, what with another language's rules (one with more commas, for one) fighting in my head. :P So I simply don't sweat it; If people understand me...

'Writing is like boxing', I am going to have to have that printed in a plate :) Doesn't it kind of depend why you're writing? I mean, I mostly hear writers say that they write because they do not have a choice: they have to write. I could be wrong, but I think the article is more about...

Google. Not so strange, eh? I was looking for writing groups.

I always envision Roald Dahl in his old chair in the shed. That's reality and it is pretty romantic. ... I am already planning a shed in the garden even if I will never write a book.

Learning a new word is always worthy to celebrate with a cup of tea. I am putting the kettle on!

I skimmed it, and I think it isnt that it is about not liking a certain type of female characters, but rather the interpretation of a certain female character type. But the same can be said for any character type, regardless of gender. Bit of an open door to me. Why wouldnt the (dull) strong...

Awww, CivII, how many hours did you distract me from my university courses...? Many, many hours. I think a recent game that really got me was Dragon Age: Origins. I am not sure if I learned anything from it, other than that I wasn't half-bad at the combat, and that the storytelling was awesome...

Tannoy. You know, I never looked it up, because I believe my guy on his honest green eyes. He said it was the speaker system in shops, which until then I just called ... the speaker system, or intercom, I think. So I just looked it up. "a sound-amplifying apparatus used as a public-address...

Having sold books I saw the market for YA emerge. That doesn't mean there were no books for teens before that, it just seems that mainly since Harry Potter teens were discovered as a target group for a particular kind of book, which would also mbe read by adults. And adults do not want to read...

Call me Daenelia, or Dae. I was looking for sites about writing. But 'storytelling' sounds so much better, I just had to register. 'Writing' suggests such a heavy emphasis on grammar and spelling, where 'storytelling' seems to be much more about entertaining people with a good story. And I like...