Category: write

• How Long Can You Go Without Writing?

  

  …and are you sure you are okay?

  Vesna Kurilic

  January 3, 2022

  live, snw, write

  creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, how to write, writing, Writing advice, writing life

• Three Lessons I Learned From Publishing the Third Book in a Series

  

  No lessons, no life. (Good lessons, good life!)

  Vesna Kurilic

  October 25, 2021

  live, plan, write, writing lessons

  books, fiction writing, girls back home, how to write a series, nanowrimo, ranger paraversum, series bible, writing, Writing advice

• The Girls are Back—in Black!

  

  Oh, boy.

  Vesna Kurilic

  March 10, 2021

  announcing, publish, write

  announcing, historical fantasy, historical mystery, historical romance, lesbian dieselpunk, lesbian historic, lesbian historical fiction, lesbian mystery, lesbian romance, lesbian suspense, new release, portal fantasy, sapphic fantasy, sapphic romance, sapphic scifi, upcoming release, vintage lesbians

• 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

• 7 Reasons Why I Admire Mystery Writers

  

  I still admire romance writers more, in case anyone was wondering. Which I knew you weren’t.

  Vesna Kurilic

  February 24, 2021

  love, read, write

  agatha christie, fiction, gregory ashe, mystery, mystery fiction, shari lapena, whodunnit

• 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

• Skirts’n’Wolves in 2021: Huzzah!

  

  The old year is dead! Long live the new year! (…or something like that.)

  Vesna Kurilic

  January 6, 2021

  live, plan, publish, snw, write

  alternative history, creative writing, fiction, genre fiction, historical fantasy, historical fiction, lesbian historic, lesbian historical fiction, lesfic, lgbt historical fiction, murder mystery, portal fantasy, publishing, queer fiction, queer historical fiction, skirts'n'wolves, vesna kurilic, vesna kurilić, writing, writing business

• (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