Tea and Books
When I was a child I used books to escape, to find a world of adventure, or safety, or deep longing and fulfilling emotional connection,...
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Altersaside
- Nov 10, 2021
- 2 min
A Lemon's Worldview
When I decided to write a story about King Arthur, I vastly underestimated the amount of research I would be doing. Also, I didn’t expect...
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Altersaside
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
Fantasy Holidays
I wanted to add in holidays for various parts of the Mercuy series. Since my main character is a Fae Prince, I spent time looking up...
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Altersaside
- Oct 23, 2020
- 1 min
5 Grammar Tips For Writers
These are things I've found issues with in my own writing and seen in a lot of manuscripts, especially rough drafts.
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Altersaside
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
A Writer's Search History
A blog about weird things I Google while writing my book.
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Altersaside
- Oct 2, 2020
- 3 min
Google and Writing
I thought it would be fun to share my search history with you from when I was writing Mercury Rising.
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Altersaside
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
Discord Write-In
My Discord writing room, which is mostly used to encourage and help other writers, tried out a test run for a virtual write-in.
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Altersaside
- Sep 18, 2020
- 2 min
Fantasy Map Making
How I created the map for Mercury Rising
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Altersaside
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
Love Letter to Becky Albertalli
I'm not going to post any links to the negative stuff that's going on with this situation. If you want to know, I trust you can use...
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Altersaside
- Sep 4, 2020
- 3 min
Fantasy Words
How do writers choose the words for their fantasy novels?
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Altersaside
- Aug 28, 2020
- 4 min
Plotting with Tarot Cards
Plotting a story with tarot cards and a trope prompt!
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