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A collection of 6 posts

I’m Conflicted
Character Development

I’m Conflicted

These conflicts inside the heads of your characters are not just there for window dressing. They serve a structural purpose in your storytelling.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
3 min read
Urban Fantasy
Genre

Urban Fantasy

Even supernatural beings must cope with problems like lead paint and aging transportation infrastructure.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
4 min read
Magical Realism
Genre

Magical Realism

Within the bounds of this genre, I discovered a specialized candy shop of ideas: Glass jars brimming with bright gumballs of fabulism, boiled sweets of the marvelous real, sugar whorls of the baroque, lollipops of Latin literary forms, and caramel creams of German art critique.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
3 min read
Real People in a Small World
world-building

Real People in a Small World

It’s terrible to imagine so much sorrow crammed into such a small village. The despair must have been inescapable.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
3 min read
Nine White Coffins
Research

Nine White Coffins

The colors of mourning, symbolizing innocence and purity, were an unrelenting white.

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
5 min read
Cincinnati Ghost Stories
Research

Cincinnati Ghost Stories

The cacophony of 30 girls 12 feet down a sewage vault screaming for help....

  • Amy Diane Short
    Amy Diane Short
3 min read
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