Category: Writing

• Let’s Write – Travel in Writing

  

  Quick fact—the average horse and the average person can travel about the same distance per day. And I know you’re thinking, ‘Okay, great, but how is that relevant to writers?’ Well, our characters move around. A lot. And for those of us who write fantasy, much of said movement will happen on horseback. We don’t…

  Yolandie Horak

  August 8, 2018

  Writing

  Horses, Let’s Write, Realistic Travel Distances, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Travel, Travel by Horse, Walking, Walking Distances, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing

• Let’s Write Joy

  

  If you’re here for the first time, I’ve been writing a series of posts on the body language of various emotions, so authors have a quick reference when they get stuck writing diverse characters. It’s so easy to fall into the same old repetitive action tags. I can’t tell you how many times I used…

  Yolandie Horak

  August 1, 2018

  Writing

  Better Writing, Emotions, Joy, Let’s Write, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Emotions, Writing Joy

• Let’s Write Fear

  

  From a fright when the spider lands on your arm, to being scared of the weird guy on the blind date, to full-blown terror when a dragon sticks its head out of the cave and you left your sword at home, fear is one of the most complex emotions that we’ve all had to deal…

  Yolandie Horak

  July 4, 2018

  Writing

  Anxiety, Better Writing, Emotions, Fear, Let’s Write, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Emotions, Writing Fear

• Book Talk – The Physician’s Apprentice

  

  EDIT – This Book’s title has changed since I wrote this post. The story is still the same, but the swanky new title is A Study of Ash & Smoke. I’ve never done a post discussing what this book is actually about, and I honestly don’t know how that’s happened. So, considering I’ve completed the…

  Yolandie Horak

  June 27, 2018

  Writing

  A Study of Ash & Smoke, Aelland, Book Talk, Cara, Characters, Dvara, Ehrdia, Lance, Mordoux, Nathan, Roicester, Seraphine, The Physician’s Apprentice, Varda, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writing, Writing Update, Yolandie Writes

• Let’s Write Excitement and Nerves

  

  Welcome to part three of the Writing Emotions series! You can check out the others here, and come back in two weeks for the next part. Today we’re chatting about nervousness and excitement. Since these amount to the same thing in terms of body language, I figured I’d group them. Of course, there are some…

  Yolandie Horak

  June 20, 2018

  Writing

  Emotions, Excitement, Let’s Write, Nerves, Nervousness, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Emotions, Writing Excitement, Writing Nervousness

• Let’s Write Sadness

  

  Picking up from where we left off, we’re talking about sadness or grief today. The topic was suggested to me by someone in the writing group I belong to on Facebook. Love was also suggested and I’ll definitely delve into that one, but I think it might need to be spread over more than one…

  Yolandie Horak

  June 6, 2018

  Writing

  Emotions, Grief, Let’s Write, Sadness, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Emotions, Writing Sadness

• Let’s Write Anger

  

  Friends. Writing is difficult. Especially emotions, which are pivotal in crafting realistic characters. At first, we write super interesting actions for our cast. But then, we slip into easy repetition. He gave a look. She nodded. They shrugged. Or unforgivable redundancies like ‘he glared at her angrily’. *shudders* The worst part is that we don’t…

  Yolandie Horak

  May 23, 2018

  Writing

  Anger, Emotions, Let’s Write, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Anger, Writing Emotions

• Just Publish it Already

  

  We’re back to reality today, after a week-long break (if it can be called that, considering we were so sick we could barely move). Kayla’s been dropped off at school, which means it’s back to work for me too after a mini-break from writing. Well, writing The Physician’s Apprentice anyway – I’ve been sporadically working…

  Yolandie Horak

  March 19, 2018

  Writing

  A Study of Ash & Smoke, Creativity, Inspiration, Personal, The Physician’s Apprentice, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Block, Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Process, Writing Update

• The Writer’s Supply Network

  

  Hang around writer’s forums long enough and you’ll soon see that there are many fake service providers out there. People who claim they’ll help you polish your manuscript before the world sees it, then disappear with your cash. And since so many people are self-publishing these days, the demand for indie service providers is on…

  Yolandie Horak

  March 2, 2018

  Writing

  Author, Beta Readers, Beta Reading, Blurb, Cover Dersign, Cover Designers, Editors, Formatting, Graphic Design, Indie Writers, Resources, Service Providers, Services for Writers, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writer’s Supply Network, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Services

• December/January Writing Update

  

  The last few weeks of my life have been intense. Not in the way you’d probably picture intense, because most of my time was spent in front of the screen, typing and reading aloud what I’ve typed, over and over and over. To my neighbour on the left, despite the number of times you’ve seen me…

  Yolandie Horak

  January 22, 2018

  Writing

  A Study of Ash & Smoke, Personal, The Physician’s Apprentice, Update, Writing, Writing Update, Yolandie Writes