

How To Deal With Hate
If there is one universal truth to being an online author who can receive submitted reviews, you will at some point or another in your career receive hate reviews. They do not discriminate with fandom and experience spectrums. They travel across fanfiction lengths, tropes, genres, pairings, and plots. You will no doubt gather your fair share of praise, as is rightly deserved for all your hard work, and yet you will find that like the fated Hindenburg your floating palace can

Weather and Climate
Raise your hands if you’ve ever neglected weather in your fanfiction or original writing; don’t be afraid to show your shame. It’s a common pitfall of many writers, simply because the drama of our characters and plots often take center stage. When confronted with a dilemma, we don’t often ask ‘what is the weather like’ unless it directly effects the outcome of our situation. Yet weather does exist, and will continue to exist long after our daily dramas have unfolded… so how d


Geography: The Basic Bones
While there are many types of Geography, the type that we will be discussing today is physical Geography that predominantly dictates the shape of the earth. To zone in even further, we’re looking at the Geomorphology…the origin and evolution of the topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near the Earth's surface. And you can thank the dictionary for that definition. So let’s talk about your landscape! Cast asi


Landscape: A Love Affair
In crafting a compelling work, you will inevitably have to flesh out more than just the characters and plot. A play cannot be performed without a stage, and yet it seems to me that so often the stage is rather bare, particularly in the hands of novice writers. Crafting a complete and authentic landscape can seem utterly exhausting if not superlative. Why bother with the trouble when surely you can just have the characters make it up as they go along? If your character lives i