Recent content by DevonHexx

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Show don't tell is rule number one. And try to involve as many of the senses as possible. Sight is the easiest. Dim, cloudy, deep shadows. Sound: rain falling? Rain is used for creating a gloomy mood all the time in film and TV. It tends to bring people down. The sound of silence? Empty rooms...

If your main character doesn't change and grow over the course of the novel then, in my opinion, you're doing it wrong. If it's the hero of the story then riding along with them as they grow, become smarter, wiser, more compassionate, more effective--whatever the goal is--is satisfying for the...

I would recommend having a fairly solid outline before you begin. Know all your story beats, identify the beginning, middle, and end. If you ever took a writing class in high school they would have shown the plot diagram. You have Beginning (exposition) -> rising action -> climax -> falling...

I spent middle school and high school in rural Missouri. No cable, spotty TV reception on a good day, and the nearest library was about six miles away. My mother had picked up a box-o-books from a yardsale or something and, one summer out of sheer boredom, I started working my way through them...

If you like like Haremlit, mine might be for you. Consider giving it a look. The Onyx Throne

There is a creature in my book that becomes a beast companion of the MC. It's not not a displacer beast because that name is copywrited. But it is a shadow cat. One of the most feared predators of the Skybreaker Peaks.