danaebradley
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How CMOS Awakened My Artist Ethos
Turns out you don’t truly see your voice until it is missing. About a week ago, I posted the prologue of my book on r/writingfeedback, just out of curiosity to see what people would say about it. Some users stated that the writing lost them in a few spots. Others messaged me directly with very…
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Emotional Storytelling
Writing is one of the most emotional art forms that can exist. Every facet of your work can be used to portray an emotion, whether you mean it or not. In this article, I’ll break down some of the things I use to create emotion without saying ‘He is sad.’ Word Choice and Connotation Word…
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Primary Emotion and Vulnerability
Emotion is the driving force of every story ever told. It has driven heroes for thousands of years, and will to do so for as long as there are stories. I struggled greatly with writing emotional characters at first. Most of them were very flat. Their dialogue was blunt, the body language non-existent. Their actions…
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Exploring Influential Works in Writing
After a month-long hiatus, I found myself wanting to write something unrelated to Bjornborn. To spare me from going insane, I started looking back at my inspirations for writing in general. What inspired me to build worlds the way I do? Without these inspirations, Bjornborn wouldn’t be the same. Without one of these works, it…
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World Building: The Psoglavs
The Psoglavs are a Race in Breath of Life that were directly inspired by Balkan mythology (Firsthand accounts claim that this can be pronounced ‘csoglav,’ which is close to ‘tsoglav’). Discussing this creature without mentioning it’s real-world counterpart seems disingenuous at best and disrespectful at worst. So I’ll share what I know. There are many…
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Introduction to Bjornborn: Book One of Breath of Life
Bjornborn is the first book in the Breath of Life series. The original title was simply ‘Breath of Life.’ After realizing I had way more to say than I thought, Breath of Life became the title for the entire series. I already plan on a book two, but I have so many ideas that maybe…
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An Introduction
My name is Danae Bradley. I have been writing for twenty-two years. My earliest memory with writing was when I was around four or five, when I would scribble on pieces of paper on the floor of my mom’s home office. I mostly wrote at home, until I learned how to be ungovernable in the…