Tag: Research

• You Name It!

  Character names are the topic of today’s post, for both readers and writers, so jump right in! The other day, I was given the option to check out yet another free book and being the cover whore that I am, I couldn’t pass it up. I skipped the blurb and went right for the “Look…

  A.C. Melody

  April 11, 2017

  Reading, Writing

  A.C. Melody, Character Names, Dark Day Isle, Foreign Names, France, Hearthstone Alpha, How to Name Characters, Italian, Luxembourg, Names That Don’t Exist, reading, Research, Scandinavian, Unique Names, Writing

• #ReadWithMe ♥ Finding My Genre

  In celebration of National Reading Month, Ms. Felicia is hosting this amazing blog hop for all readers to spread the love and joy of this favorite pastime with the world. If you’d like to join in the fun, please click on the banner above to add your post to the linky list! The Novel Brick…

  A.C. Melody

  March 1, 2017

  Event, Life, Reading

  #ReadWithMe, Ancient Egypt, Anne Rice, BDSM, Blog Hop Event, Bram Stoker, City of Bones, Clive Barker, Dracula, Ebooks, Eragon, Erotic Romance, Fahrenheit 451, Fanfiction, Fantasy, Felicia Denise, Francis Ford Coppola, Genres, Grapes of Wrath, Harry Potter, Howard Carter, J.D. Robb, Jacqueline Carey, John Steinbeck, Kim Newman, L.J. Smith, March is National Reading Month, Mercedes Lackey, My Life in Reading, Nabokov, Narnia, Nesie’s Place, Nora Roberts, Of Mice and Men, Paranormal, Ray Bradbury, Research, Romance, Stephen King, Terry Brooks, The Catcher in the Rye, The Immortal Instruments, V.C. Andrews, Vlad III

• 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

• Get Your Read On

  The Daily guru’s are calling today’s Prompt “The Great Divide.”  Codswallop!  There’s no division in reading, that’s arithmetic – which I loathe like the dentist’s chair!  Just for that, I’m ‘dividing’ your two-part question! When reading for fun, do you usually choose fiction or non-fiction? Both.  I’ll normally choose fiction when I want to be entertained,…

  A.C. Melody

  September 29, 2014

  Uncategorized

  Ancient Egypt, Anne Rice, Daily Prompt, Dracula, Fiction vs. Non-Fiction, L.J. Smith, Mercedes Lackey, Prince of Wallachia, reading, Research, Vlad Dracul III