• About

picklescantdance

~ If so, they wouldn't be pickles

picklescantdance

Monthly Archives: May 2014

Link

Cliche or not Cliche?

19 Monday May 2014

Posted by doubleshrtlatte in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

creatures, fantasy, fiction, writing

So as mentioned previously, I am writing a novel… or at least, attempting to! Well in my musings, I’ve come across the difficulties of making sure I’m not writing something boring or more importantly something really cliche. We all think, oh the hero gets the girl, that’s sooo cliche!  but there’s more to being cliche then just a main plot such as that! There’s the little things, like maybe how something can be killed, or the description of something like: It was a dark and stormy night. You wouldn’t believe it, but really, so many writers try to be funny and incorporate that line in somewhere!

Something that I was really trying to work on in my own writing, were the creatures. Since my novel is all fantasy and fiction based, I need to be creative and original in my creature base. So many things have been done already, it’s hard to come up with something that will bode interesting, provide everything I am looking for, yet not copy something already done. Slight characteristics are alright to copy in some cases, but you don’t want to have something someone has done, then just change one thing and call it good!

A fantastic site I found particularly useful was M. T. Dremer’s hubpage, ‘How to Describe a Fantasy Creature.’  It provided some very interesting points and helpful tips. I highly recommend checking it out! Another one I found helpful was a site called ‘The Writers Helpers‘. This one as well, had some great points to consider when creating your own fantasy creatures.

Write on, people! ♥

View behind the words

16 Friday May 2014

Posted by doubleshrtlatte in Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

coffeeshop, J. K. Rowling, writing

So today as I sat in my favorite coffee shop, tip tapping away at my keyboard putting thought to word on my novel, I would glance around every so often just to experience the human behaviors going on around me. I like sitting up in the loft area; it’s my favorite spot. I can observe people walking by on the street as well as the people that walk in the door. Somehow it soothes me and I come up with so many great ideas for my novel!

I often wonder how many of the great authors and poets of old would sit in little coffee shops or taverns even, putting their great works down on paper. Or how many of them thought their works wouldn’t be as big as they are today. It’s a fun thought to entertain! Then again it may just be my writer’s brain or my imaginative thoughts that bring me to those daydreams.

One day I hope to find my writings on a shelf in some bookstore, or walk into some little out of the way corner coffee shop to see my familiar cover in the hands of some deeply focused male or female. One day!

In the words of J. K. Rowling “…the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”

Subscribe

  • Entries (RSS)
  • Comments (RSS)

Archives

  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • October 2013

Categories

  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in

  • Follow Following
    • picklescantdance
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • picklescantdance
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar