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What’s the difference between contemporary fantasy fiction and a romance novel? According to certain contemporary fantasy fiction writers’

Writing in first-person perspective gets old – fast – in business writing. First-person perspective means the writer is directly inserting

Have you ever read up on the mythology of mermaids? Or faeries? Not fairies. Faeries. Or dragons? As a contemporary fantasy fiction write

Crime fiction writers, listen up if you want some real writing tips to improve your police stories. Academy is now in session thanks to reti

We’re up to one of my (admittedly many) favorite subgenres of all times: contemporary fantasy fiction. With it, we’re also discussing its cl

We’re onto step two of the “How to Write Your Novel” process. The first was to “figure out whether you need to put in research time before

This week’s focus on high fantasy fiction and epic fantasy fiction reminds me of a Pinterest writing prompt. It goes like this: What if the

Repetition in writing isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes it can make a truly positive impact on the reader. Like right there. Those two se

Because of high fantasy fiction’s nature – epic fantasy fiction or otherwise – creating character name confusion is a risk. High fantasy fi

Sandra Clark Jergensen's writing most often focuses on food, spanning a variety of publications from academic journals to design blogs,

Try giving a definition for high fantasy fiction, and you’ll get a lot of industry agreement. Try giving a definition for epic fantasy ficti

Last week, we listed off The 8 Steps of Getting Ready to Publish Your Book. However, we did jump right into one aspect of Step #7 instead of

Fantasy fiction magic is some pretty powerful stuff. It can locate missing persons or items, open portals to whole new worlds, breathe spea

Repetitive writing is almost always bad writing. That’s not to say that repetition can’t be used well to drive a point home. But if an auth

For such a free-spirit genre, it might seem silly to apply a fantasy fiction writing challenge at all. Why bother? What hurdles could possi

Putting together Innovative Editing’s newest Genuine Writer e-booklet guide the other day, I happened upon a memory from 2016. It involved a

Oh, fantasy fiction writing, what can we say about you? A whole lot, actually. That’s why the next three weeks will be filled with Definiti

There’s a basic publishing-process checklist I like to promote whenever I’m acting as a beta reader, manuscript editor or book coach. It’s o

Today’s science-fiction Writing Rule further explores yesterday’s Writing Challenge and Tuesday’s Definition. And it’s a must for anyone who

So many people say they want to make an actual positive difference in the world with their writing. And so many people think they have at le