Research: Enough is Enough
While we're on the subject of historical fiction, let's talk about the amount of research you need to do. Speaking from experience, it's easy...
Prepare for the Unexpected in Historical Fiction
In an article for Writer's Digest, Janie Chang asked six writers of historical fiction for their tips on research and storytelling. Some of their...
We Welcome Our Octopi Overlords
A peer-reviewed research paper published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, suggests that Earth's original octopi came from outer space.
Researchers posit that...
A Visit to a Dissection Room: 1887
The Victorian Book of the Dead blog shares a transcript of an article that appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer on February 13, 1887. In...
Six Tips for Writing Suspense
In an essay for CrimeReads, Sara Gran offers six tips for creating gripping suspense. "If you learn how to build a page-turning quality into...
Write What You Don’t Know for Fun and Profit
In this share, we tackle another of writing's shibboleths: write what you know. Simple advice, easy to understand, but also incredibly vague and unhelpful.
In...
Advice for Writing Tasty Prose
In a new post on Writers in the Storm, Ellen Buikema offers more advice on using sensory language in your writing, this time focusing on...
How Nice is Too Nice?
Despite what TV would have you believe, you can never be too nice. Creative works are full of "nice" characters who overcome the heartache...
All About the Hand of Glory
Of course, horror and fantasy writers who read this blog will know about the Hand of Glory, but we wanted to share this article...
Not for the Faint-Hearted: Poor Man’s Medicine from 18th Century Scotland
Old Weird Scotland shares excerpts from Tippermalloch’s Receipts, or The Poor Man’s Physician, a popular self-help book in early 1700s Scotland. They include cures...
