Tag: Details

• #TacoTuesday

  Welcome to week 3 of building our book taco… sorry foodies, this really is still a writing thing. If you’re just tuning in, you can check back to the original post to see what this is all about – and there’s no time limit for joining in. Just make sure to leave a pingback to…

  A.C. Melody

  May 9, 2017

  Writing

  #TacoTuesday, A.C. Melody, Details, Epic Fantasy, Mercedes Lackey, The Last Herald Mage Series, Thief of Dragons, Valdemar

• The End

  I recently tweeted about the different ways new story ideas can come to us.  How some can come on quickly and with so much detail, you feel like a spasmodic jackrabbit on the keyboard, trying to get it all down before you forget anything.  Then, there’s the slow birth; those ideas that seem like distant…

  A.C. Melody

  January 4, 2015

  Writing

  Details, Labyrinth, Mazes, Minotaur, Story Ideas, Working From The End to The Beginning, Writing, Writing Tools

• Semantics

  I read a really great post yesterday over at David Ben-Ami’s blog Fiction All Day that talked about details; covering the tedious aspect of researching in order to enrich our fictional stories with facts that our readers DO appreciate.  I nearly just re-posted it here today, but it’s so well written that it got me…

  A.C. Melody

  November 18, 2014

  Uncategorized

  Apollo & Daphne, Cerebus, Creative License, David Ben-Ami, Details, Facts, Fiction All Day, Misinformation, Recycling The Classics, Research, Semantics, Sybaris, Writing