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Samantha Holloway

5 scifi worldbuilding questions to ask yourself

Worldbuilding is FUN. Scifi worldbuilding can be AMAZING! But because it’s scifi, you’ve got to be sure it makes sense, because people…

Aug 14, 2019

5 scifi worldbuilding questions to ask yourself

Aug 14, 2019

Samantha Holloway

Six of my favorite YouTubers for writing

There’s so many awesome writers and story-analysts on YouTube and I spend probably too much time watching them. Here’s where the rabbit…

Jul 9, 2019

Jul 9, 2019

Samantha Holloway

Reclaiming clichés: High Fantasy

I think that the biggest problem with clichés is that people use them as shorthand, which means they’re often using them thoughtlessly…

Jul 3, 2019

Reclaiming clichés: High Fantasy

Jul 3, 2019

Samantha Holloway

The best of June 2019

June was a rough month for me, but I wrote 20 articles here, started a short story, brainstormed six or seven others, and started a nonfic…

Jul 3, 2019

The best of June 2019

Jul 3, 2019

Samantha Holloway

Actually live where you live

I didn’t really want to move where I currently live. Originally, it was going to be a year, at best, in the place where most of my family…

Jun 28, 2019

Jun 28, 2019

Samantha Holloway

5 things to do on a bad writing day

Or, really, on any bad day.

Jun 26, 2019

5 things to do on a bad writing day

Jun 26, 2019

Samantha Holloway

Write it like a tree grows

There’s lots of ways to look at writing a book, but my personal favorite metaphor is a tree.

Jun 24, 2019

Write it like a tree grows

Jun 24, 2019

Samantha Holloway

How to keep writing a story

It seems like a lot of the time, it isn’t the writing that’s a problem, it’s the keeping writing. Here’s some tricks I’ve used to keep…

Jun 22, 2019

How to keep writing a story

Jun 22, 2019

Samantha Holloway

Things can’t exist in insolation

If there’s one thing I’ve learned while rebuilding (or more accurately, just building) my life this past year, it’s that things need other…

Jun 21, 2019

Things can’t exist in insolation

Jun 21, 2019

Samantha Holloway

Writing is more than just a string of how-to-write’s

One of the things that gets to me about writing in this age of content creation is that there’s developed this idea that writing is only a…

Jun 19, 2019

Writing is more than just a string of how-to-write’s

Jun 19, 2019

Samantha Holloway

Samantha Holloway

I am the following: SF/F Writer, Nail Polish Mixatrix, Book Reviewer, Blogger, TV Reviewer, Awesome Chick, Geek, Tea Drinker, MFA Seeker.

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