Category: write

• 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

• 7 Things I Learned From Writing my First Holiday Novella

  

  Tis the season to be… publishing?

  Vesna Kurilic

  December 9, 2020

  announcing, holidays, publish, write

  art deco, creative writing, croatia, dieselpunk, fiction writing, gay murder mystery, gay winter, historical fantasy, historical romance, holiday novella, holigay, how to write, interbellum, m/m mystery, m/m novella, snarky characters, Writing advice, zavizan, zavižan

• Confessions of an Accidental Worldbuilder

  

  And what if and what if an what if… What?

  Vesna Kurilic

  December 2, 2020

  plan, write

  art history, dieselpunk, dieselpunk mystery, dieselpunk romance, how to write, how to write a series, lesbian dieselpunk, lesbian historic, mystery, nanowrimo, novel, plotting, romance, selfcest, worldbuilding, writing

• ‘I want this scene, this scene, this scene and this trope’ and Other Stuff I liked in November, 2020

  

  Synopsis skills, cover design and life size adult toys. I guess.

  Vesna Kurilic

  November 28, 2020

  publish, read, recs, write

  gay comedy, historical romance, holiday novella, holiday romance, how to write a novel, how to write a synopsis, queer as folk, Reading recs, recs, winter reads, writing business, writing life

• I Will Write Today…

  

  Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Deep…

  Vesna Kurilic

  November 25, 2020

  the heavy stuff, write, writing lessons

  creative writing, fiction writing, for writers, freddie and ivan, mystery, nanowrimo, romance, writer's block, writing, Writing advice, writing business, writing life, writing manifesto