Tag: writing fiction

• How do you know if a story ends well?

  How do you know if a story ends well? Cross your fingers? Hope that you’ve tied up all the necessary knots? There is no way. Not really. Okay, I’ve just finished – I mean minutes ago – the final edits on the end of my trilogy, and honestly I don’t know how I feel. I…

  sassevn

  February 8, 2019

  Indie Author, Writing Process

  evaluating a story, writing advice, writing fiction

• Novel Writing: Time to Do the Heavy Lifting

  

  I’m writing my first trilogy, and I must admit, the first 2/3s has come rather easily. Book one cruised by and set-up book two perfectly. Book two introduced some new characters and the adventure went farther, deeper, and more enjoyable than I could have anticipated. Even the ending flowed, setting up book three. But now,…

  sassevn

  February 11, 2018

  Indie Author, Writing Process

  brainstorming, novel writing, trilogy writing, writing, writing fiction

• Writing a Trilogy, or is it a Three Part Story

  I’ve mentioned before how I am working on my first trilogy. My first five novels were standalones and I’ve always felt that standalones are more interesting reads because, well, they have a tight arc and a thrilling finish. I’ve never been one for built-in cliffhangers (let alone the ridiculous extra scenes that Marvel Studios has…

  sassevn

  April 28, 2017

  Indie Author, Writing Process

  novel writing, writing a trilogy, writing advice, writing fiction, writing ideas, writing inspiration

• The Truth is Stranger than Fiction. Sometimes.

  I remember when I was around twenty years old, and I decided to write my autobiography. Yeah, it makes me laugh now, too. What in the world was I going to say about myself at such a young age when I had no idea what I even wanted to do with my life? I don’t…

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  November 19, 2014

  Indie Author, Writing Process

  autobiography, writing about oneself, writing fiction, writing process

• Mixing real historical figures into a work of fiction. Vietnam 1945.

  My untitled third novel that I’m currently working on is set during two different time periods in Vietnam. The first is 2000 and the second is 1945. Nineteen-forty-five is the crucial year in modern day Vietnam. It’s the year that the Japanese completely overthrew the remnants of the French Empire in Indochina. It’s the year…

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  June 12, 2013

  History & Culture, Vietnam, What’s Happening, Writing Process

  French colonialism, French Indochina, historical fiction, Ho Chi Minh, OSS, real people in fiction, Vietnam 1945, writing fiction