Category: beginners

• Why Not: Doppelgänger Romance

  

  ‘Doppelgänger romance’ and its variations is not a term to be tossed around lightly—especially when you’re writing it.

  Vesna Kurilic

  February 10, 2021

  beginners, geek, live, love, publish, read, recs, the wolf on, want, write

  alternative history, doppelganger fiction, doppelganger novels, girls in black, lesfic, lgbt alternative history, mark twain, portal fantasy, queer alternative history, queer dieselpunk, ranger paraversum, sapphic romance, sapphic scifi, sarah pinsker, selfcest, selfcest romance, selfcest romance novel, vorkosigan

• (Almost) 20 Things I Learned in 2020

  

  Happy holidays, all! And a special hello to new subscribers from 2020—there have been quite a few of you, and the support is really appreciated. #1 People you talk to in your day-to-day life won’t get ebook publishing. I’ve no idea why I thought it would be different (or I do—the internet told me). In […]

  Vesna Kurilic

  December 30, 2020

  beginners, holidays, live, snw, write

  2021, any writing advice, bad writing advice, end of year post, good writing advice, happy new year, indie author, indie books, indie publishing, indie writer, lessons from 2020, shtriga books, skirts'n'wolves, vesna kurilic, writing, Writing advice, writing lessons

• How to Learn to Write

  

  So, do you wanna go to a real party?

  Vesna Kurilic

  December 23, 2020

  beginners, the wolf on, write, writing lessons

  creative writing, fiction writing, how to write, learn to write, publishing, writing, Writing advice

• 5 Awesome Things About Non-linear Writing

  

  Yay for restless writers!

  Vesna Kurilic

  November 18, 2020

  beginners, characters, plan, write, writing lessons

  creative writing, cycle writing, discover writing, fiction writing, how to write a novel, nanowrimo, nanowrimo 2020, nonlinear writing, novel, out of order, writing

• Lucky 7 Books About Writing in the 21st century

  

  Any better ideas on what to do while procrastinating over your novel than reading about how to write?

  Vesna Kurilic

  November 4, 2020

  beginners, publish, write, writing lessons

  beginner writer, books about writing, creative writing, fiction writing, how to oublish a novel, how to publish a book, how to write, how to write a novel, how to write a roance, on writing, publishing, story structure, writing, writing a novel, Writing advice, writing books, writing business, writing romance

• How Much Sex do You(r Books) Need?

  

  It’s birds and… more birds time, kids!

  Vesna Kurilic

  September 16, 2020

  beginners, the wolf on, write, writing lessons

  creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, sex scenes, writing

• Should I Write Short Stories… or Novels?

  

  Do or do not. There is no try.

  Vesna Kurilic

  September 2, 2020

  beginners, write, writing lessons

  books, craft, creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, short stories

• How Not to Plan a Novel

  

  Easy answer – by reading a post about planning a novel.

  Vesna Kurilic

  August 26, 2020

  beginners, plan, write, writing lessons

  creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, habits, nanowrimo, writing, writing life

• We’ll Never Get to Write All the Stories

  

  And that’s a good thing.

  Vesna Kurilic

  May 27, 2020

  beginners, live, plan, write

  artistic, creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, nanowrimo, writing, writing life

• NaNo Prep Checklist

  

  What else will you need to get through this November in one piece?

  Vesna Kurilic

  October 30, 2019

  beginners, live, plan, read, thirty days, write