I had not done my homework, and my voice and my style were suffering. I went to a workshop aspiring writers called Break Out Novel Intensive put on by a genius named Donald Maass. Donald is an agent in New York with an impressive client list as well as an author himself who writes under… Continue reading Building a Style
Category: Literature
Illusions of Dialogue: The Vanishing Tag
This is the lesson I have heard when it comes to dialogue: Don’t tag too often. Don’t get too specific with your tag. First, let’s define tag. A tag is very simple. He said is a tag. We have all seen them a million times. Remember that. We will get back to that. Tags are… Continue reading Illusions of Dialogue: The Vanishing Tag
The Illusions of Dialogue
I came from a family of storytellers, I mean, gifted storytellers. They could pick you up and lift you into a tale like none other I have ever known. I apprenticed under them, and it made me the writer I am. I have been telling stories all my life and writing for most of my… Continue reading The Illusions of Dialogue
Chaste: Book of the Broken
On October 5, 2016, my book Chaste will be released. It is already available for purchase on pre-order. It is going to come out in 15 days. There is no way to stop it, no way to slow it. It will be unleashed upon the world in a couple weeks, and I have come here… Continue reading Chaste: Book of the Broken
Dragonsbane
Dragonsbane. Of all the hundreds of cities in my world, nothing scares me more than the City of Curses, the City of Crime, the city known around Timea for being the darkest, most terrible place to live in all existence. The citizens that people this town, found nestled in the hills of Lorinth, hold onto… Continue reading Dragonsbane
Daughters of Smaug
The king god of all fantastical creatures is irrevocably and without question the Dragon. In my childhood, this creature stole into my dreams, making them a delight and as often a nightmare, for there could be no force quite like a dragon on a rampage. When I looked to create this beast in my own… Continue reading Daughters of Smaug
Death of the Damsel
Everyone has seen her. We have wept for her. We have wished for her safety. We have fallen in love with her. We have, frankly, often been annoyed by the Damsel in Distress. When it began, no one can say. We called her Andromeda when Perseus killed the leviathan to save her. We knew her… Continue reading Death of the Damsel
Jesse Teller 