Slayer Shadez

The October writing post is now live over on the blog! Today, I’m talking about how I write action scenes and sharing some of the things I try to keep in mind while I’m doing it.

The September writing post is now live over on my blog! Today, I’ll share some tips for writing characters that are a different gender from you, and how to make it believable and respectful.

August’s writing post is now live over on the blog! Today, I’m sharing my top 5 favorite pieces of writing advice and why I find them helpful.

July's writing post is now live over on emlinden.com! Today, I'm talking about one of my favorite things to write: dialogue! I'll go over the main things that I try to keep in mind when I'm writing dialogue, such as education, background, setting, and more.

This month's writing post is now live over on emlinden.com! Today, I go into more of the technical side of writing and talk about what software I use for my projects 💻

This new artwork for "the Lair of Rubyscale," a fantasy flash fiction I posted on my blog, is probably my favorite one I've done so far 🔥

You can check out the actual fic over on my blog, emlinden.com.

Check out my latest blog post on how I name my characters over on emlinden.com!

The April book recommendation post is now live over on emlinden.com! This month, we're looking at Eragon by Christopher Paolini 🐲

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Character creation is my number one favorite part of the planning phase of any writing project. In today's blog post, I go over my process for creating characters and some of the most important things I think about while making them. Check it out through the link above!

This month's book recommendation post is now live over on emlinden.com! Today, we're taking a look at an Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 🔥

Visit the link above to check it out!

One of the great things about the writing process (and every creative process, for that matter) is that it's different for everyone. In today's blog post, I walk you through my own, sometimes messy, personal writing process.

Be sure to check it out through the link above!

This month's book recommendation is now live over on emlinden.com! Today, we're talking about Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Check it out through the link above!

Adventuring is never easy...particularly when your brand new cyclops-killing gun starts acting up in the middle of a fight against said cyclops.

Join Mogara the orc inventor as she tries to get her latest invention working in time to save her companions from a raging cyclops in today's new flash fiction, Technical Difficulties. Check it out through the link above!

The first book recommendation post on my blog is up! Today, we're looking at Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson 🙌

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This year, I decided that I wanted to give doing a writer blog a shot. The first post, a quick little introduction of myself and what I plan to do on the blog, went up today, so be sure to check it out over on emlinden.com!

For one last creative challenge of the year, I'll be participating in the Storytelling Collective's first ever 31 Days of December Drafting challenge, where participants commit to either writing 250-500 words per day, or to writing for 25 minutes every day. I'm going to be trying out the latter, sense I always base my goals on word counts and want to see what basing them on time is like. It seems like a good opportunity to try something new, and to easily keep the writing going during the holidays.

New on my Patreon today is a special behind-the-scenes post featuring the prologue of an old (and currently abandoned) side project of mine. While the whole project may never be finished, I'm proud of what I had written, and I'm excited to share it with you!

Visit patreon.com/emlinden to read it or to subscribe.