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Viking ZX


Author of Science-Fiction and Fantasy novels! Oh, and some fanfiction from time to time.

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Apr
15th
2024

Being a Better Writer: Reversals and Subversions · 6:41pm April 15th

Welcome once again, writers! Unless you’re new, you know what this is, but for those just finding this corner of the web welcome to Being a Better Writer, your weekly article series on how to improve your writing. Each week we discuss a different topic, so if you don’t like what you see up there in the title, there’s a lot more to choose from. After all, running each Monday for more than ten years makes for a significant backlog.

But for the moment we’re going to assume you’re not entering a request into that search at this exact moment looking for something else. If you are, well, you’ll probably find it. But as to this moment in time right here? We’ve got a reader request to discuss, and so we’re diving right into it.

We do have a few lines of news to drop, though, so just bear with us for a single paragraph. Axtara – Magic and Mischief (probably the final title; haven’t had anything else get close to “Mayhem”) is still in Beta, but making rapid progress. And it is a clean draft, by all indicators. Meanwhile, Part 2 of A Trial For a Dragon has released on the site! Go read it!

That’s it! I did say one paragraph. So let’s get down to business and let’s talk about this reader request. Let’s talk about reversals and subversions. Hit the jump!

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