Category: want

• How Guy Gavriel Kay’s Books Started My Love for Writing Historical Fantasy

  

  Have you ever felt like you belonged in somebody’s fictional setting?

  Vesna Kurilic

  March 3, 2021

  read, recs, want, write

  alternative history, book recs, historical fantasy, historical fiction, lions of al-rassan, Reading recs, tigana, writing, writing life

• The City as a Character: Gotham, London… Rijeka?

  

  What is this city as a character that I speak of?

  Vesna Kurilic

  February 17, 2021

  geek, read, the wolf on, want, write

  a town called river, croatian speculative fiction, rivers of london, slav, slavic fantasy, slavic literature, slavic mythology, slavic speculative fiction, speculative fiction, the magpie lord, urban fantasy, urban fantasy series, what do nightmares dream of

• 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

• 8 Reasons Why I Wrote a Dieselpunk Romance

  

  Spoilers—number eight is Agatha Christie.

  Vesna Kurilic

  October 30, 2020

  announcing, live, publish, want

  art deco, art history, dieselpunk mystery, dieselpunk romance, diselpunk, historical fantasy, historical mystery, history, johnny's girls, jugendstil, karol malnar, lesbian dieselpunk, lesbian romance, lgbt, lgbt sci-fi, lina malnar, queer, queer dieselpunk, queer romance, ranger paraversum, science fiction, shtriga books, vesna kurilic, vintage lesbians

• Why I’m Still Excited About NaNo Ten Years in—And Why You Should be, Too

  

  Just a month to go!

  Vesna Kurilic

  September 30, 2020

  plan, the wolf on, thirty days, want, write

  creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, Nano, nanowrimo, writing, Writing advice, writing life

• Endings are Hard

  

  You know, it could be like this, just like this… always.

  Vesna Kurilic

  September 11, 2020

  fandom, geek, love, want

  cw, fandom, supernatural, the cw network, tv

• Finding Joy in Short Stories Again

  

  What’s in a story? (The seed of another effin story, that’s for sure.)

  Vesna Kurilic

  August 5, 2020

  the wolf on, want, write

  books, creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, literature, short fiction, short stories, short story, writing

• The Dreaming Writer’s Imminent Demise (A Working Example)

  

  And then there were five.

  Vesna Kurilic

  July 29, 2020

  plan, want, write

  books, creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, genre, literature, shipping, short stories, writing

• n+1 Reasons Why I’ll Never Stop Reading Fanfiction

  

  What it says on the tin.

  Vesna Kurilic

  July 22, 2020

  fandom, geek, live, read, the wolf on, want, write

  ao3, archive of our own, fandom, fanfiction, fiction, fiction writing, shipping, writing

• You Don’t Need Permission to be Creative

  

  This post has been a long time coming.

  Vesna Kurilic

  June 24, 2020

  live, play, the wolf on, want, write

  art, artistic, craft, creative, creative writing, creativity, fiction, fiction writing, freedom, writing