Anna Staniszewski

Categories: Guest Post

• World-Building Through Character

  Even though today is a non-blogging day, I just wanted to pop in to let you know that my lovely author friend Alisa Libby had me do a guest post on world-building in fantasy today. After some pondering, I realized that I often think of world-building as being rooted in character. Once I had that

• Debating the Happy Ending

  If you have a minute, stop by Beth Revis’s Writing It Out today to check out my guest post: “Are We Ruled by Happy Endings?” As much as I enjoy happy endings, I’ve been wondering about the pressure they put on writers to wrap things up in a big bow. Come on over and chime

• Guest Post: Writing Historical Fiction

  by Alisa Libby
  Writing historical fiction is, in many ways, similar to writing high fantasy. The writer of historical fiction has to create a believable world for her characters to inhabit; a world far removed from the reader’s reality. Luckily, there are a lot of great books out there (not to mention art and music and