Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

Originally posted on Ryan Lanz: ? by Ashlee McNicol ? We all need a little help sometimes. As authors, it can be really hard to keep up with our writing when social media management and promotions take so much time out of the day. Most of us intend to make it full-time, but if you…

Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: Staci Troilo is one of my closest author friends. She’s got something new for all of us under her pen-name of D. L. Cross. Let’s make her feel welcome and share this around today. “No Idea” Excerpt from New Sci-Fi Novel: THE GATE Thanks for inviting me here today. I’m…

Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: I have a friend who once made it a goal to receive 100 poetry submission rejections in a single year. This method of “motivation” fascinated me. Because in order to receive that many rejections, she had to write and send out MANY submissions. And in the process — she…

Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: I’ve always updated with warts and all. Seems like lately there have been more warts than cool stuff. It wasn’t in my master plan, but much of it is out of my control. This is the third weekend in a row that I haven’t been able to write. I’ve done…

There’s always been a certain amount of stress associated with being alive. In pre-historic times, this was largely based on concerns over being eaten by large animals. Or by having pointy things stuck into your body by the tribe down the road. At the same time, you had crops to attend to and weather events…

Originally posted on Legends of Windemere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qt3EZ19s_Y (The above scene from ‘Into the Badlands’ is fairly violent.) This is another post suggestion by Chelsea Ann Owens, but it is one that I’m not sure I fully understand.  It was stated by someone that you can write a battle scene to clear out some writer’s block. …