Samantha Holloway5 scifi worldbuilding questions to ask yourselfWorldbuilding 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, 2019Aug 14, 2019
Samantha HollowaySix of my favorite YouTubers for writingThere’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, 2019Jul 9, 2019
Samantha HollowayReclaiming clichés: High FantasyI think that the biggest problem with clichés is that people use them as shorthand, which means they’re often using them thoughtlessly…Jul 3, 2019Jul 3, 2019
Samantha HollowayThe best of June 2019June 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, 2019Jul 3, 2019
Samantha HollowayActually live where you liveI 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, 2019Jun 28, 2019
Samantha Holloway5 things to do on a bad writing dayOr, really, on any bad day.Jun 26, 2019Jun 26, 2019
Samantha HollowayWrite it like a tree growsThere’s lots of ways to look at writing a book, but my personal favorite metaphor is a tree.Jun 24, 2019Jun 24, 2019
Samantha HollowayHow to keep writing a storyIt 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, 2019Jun 22, 2019
Samantha HollowayThings can’t exist in insolationIf 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, 2019Jun 21, 2019
Samantha HollowayWriting is more than just a string of how-to-write’sOne 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, 2019Jun 19, 2019