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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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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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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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The Vlagos are a Race in Breath of Life that were directly inspired by a creature from Balkan mythology, the Psoglav (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
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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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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
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