About Writing – Page 5 – By Autumn Rain

Why I don’t read contemporary books

I’ve said repeatedly that I don’t read anything that was published this decade, because I’m a cranky bitch who hates

I haven’t read more than a few pages of fiction novels published after 2010. That was the year the world

As much fun as it is to blog every single day, I’ve been finding myself with considerably less mental energy

A trope that I see every now and then that drives me absolutely batty goes something like this: Congratulations hero!

I read a couple of creative writing articles on “how to write realistic romance” that essentially boiled down to knocking

I’ve been working on the rough draft of my WIP for about ten months now. I started it when my

If you don’t know what keyboard maps are, then you’re using QWERTY. The name comes from the top row of

Because I write romance, they’re inevitable. As a reader, I tend to skip over sex scenes in books. Truth be

Once, during a particularly stressful point in my life, I decided to get drunk. I chose an evening when I

I don’t base any of my characters off of real people, because, frankly, everyone I know is either so normal