Why I’m doing #NANOREMO and Not #NANOWRIMO This Month Cassandra Kosmayer November 3, 2017 Writing I have always loved the community and the challenge of National November Writing Month, but I have yet to do it. It’s not even that I start and don’t finish the monthly challenge, it’s that I don’t start. I don... Read More...
April Creative Challenge Cassandra Kosmayer April 1, 2017 Writing Spring is the time of bloom, warmth, and sunshine. Also, it’s rumoured, a lot of rain (but I’ve spent a lot of time in the United Kingdom these past few years, so my perception is rather skewered on that subjec... Read More...
There’s No Question, Your Novel Needs a Logline. Cassandra Kosmayer March 31, 2017 Writing When you're a student in film, you learn about loglines. They are, in short, a sentence that explains the entire essence of a story (note: no spoilers) .It's incredibly difficult to create such a sentence, and ... Read More...
Under the Illustrated Trees Cassandra Kosmayer March 24, 2017 Fiction He was an old man, no getting around that. He had lived the life of aesthetic and was going to die alone. It was a fate he had founded for himself early on in his life, deemed it a tragedy of God. He wore it ab... Read More...
The Mirror Maze of Wonders Cassandra Kosmayer October 2, 2016 A Northern Wanderer Against the very forewarnings I have aforementioned, the first post is not of the adventures of an underaged me, but one from last week - alas, how could I? This is how blogs usually work, I believe, though I w... Read More...
Enter, London Cassandra Kosmayer September 29, 2016 A Northern Wanderer I grew up in a city in a country far, far away. Like most outsiders, London was a beautiful dream world that existed only on a screen. I had visited once, for a week, and though I was not as head over heels for... Read More...
A Northern Wanderer Cassandra Kosmayer September 27, 2016 A Northern Wanderer I get lost, I wander. I find, I discover. I'm a Northern Wanderer, documenting my journeys as I continue my crash course through life. I needed a pseudonym. When I was first asked about creating one I ha... Read More...
Call for Contributors Cassandra Kosmayer October 17, 2015 Essentials, Writing Welcome One, Welcome All! You might have noticed the barren state to Dark Sentences (previously filled with dummy text and mumbo jumbo latin, a project with no girth, a page without posts?) Whether you were, ... Read More...
The Building Blocks of Fictional People: Character Creation 101 Cassandra Kosmayer September 19, 2014 Character Series, Writing Characters are, without a doubt, the most important part of a story. They are the anchors that a reader grabs on to and without them, even the most fantastic of plots can perish. The reasoning is rather simple.... Read More...
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