How To Stop Writing Bad Fanfiction

While the quality of the average fanfic has improved a lot over the years—thanks in part to some ground rules laid down by sites such as FF.net—I still see many of the same age-old travesties being carried out by today’s authors. Maybe they’re newbie writers or just old timers who haven’t learned any better, but

Stasis: The Soundtrack

Words can only express so much–a fact I found frustratingly true in the course of writing my Inuyasha dark epic, Stasis. How do you articulate pain? How do you convey despair, or capture the essence of rage? You can describe the actions, the sounds. The consequences. But the emotion itself–that lies in another realm entirely. A world