Category: Genre
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Should You Read Nonfiction as a Fiction Writer?
I don’t know about anyone else, but I LOVE reading nonfiction. Evidence: Writers are constantly berated with the fact that they need to read fiction. That they need to read within their genre. And WE DO NEED TO READ FICTION. I mean, we make fiction, so we better be familiar with it. But you know…
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Should You Write in Other Genres?
Note: I am not talking about publishing in other genres. That’s something different that a lot of hoo-hahs get to talk about because I’m not quite there yet. The first story I ever wrote was a horse story (what else does a six year old who collects breyer horses write about may I ask?) May…
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Things I Didn’t Know About Writing Fantasy
I write mostly fantasy. *notices piles of sci-fi manuscripts* *notices piles of old horse stories from my younger days.*(let’s try this again). I write fantasy, among other things. There’s a lot to learn about the genre, world building and all that glam. My beginnings with writing it were a bit…rough? Cliche? To continue last week’s…
Bernadette Benda 