Tag: legends

• Adding Romance to a Story

  There are many types of relationships a character can pursue during the course of a novel. Oftentimes, they tend to be more romantic pursuits than platonic, as romance is seen having higher stakes with a higher payout than anything platonic. While I would highly discourage the concept that the only worthwhile relationship is the romantic…

  Katie Bachelder

  August 9, 2019

  For Writers: Builder’s Theory

  Bitterblue, Cassandra Clare, Fire, Graceling, Infernal Devices, Kristin Cashore, legends, Leigh Bardugo, love interest, Marie Lu, romance, Six of Crows

• The Dragon Thief (A Fencorian Legend)

  When the world was still young, millennia ago, there were no daiyer wolves and there were no Fay. Only two creatures had Morlaithe, sun eternal, blessed with the gift of intelligence: humans, still hunting and surviving in small clans throughout the world; and dragons. The dragons were not the dumb, fire-breathing beasts we see today,…

  Katie Bachelder

  June 2, 2017

  Uncategorized

  Daiyer Wolf Chronicles, dragons, Fantasy, Fencoria, legends, myth, Short Story

• The Siren to Oblivion

  Death stands at a dark crossroad, fingers drumming against his leg as he waits. Through the foggy silhouettes of his surroundings, he can see, vaguely, a white pinprick of light in the distance. But that’s all he sees. It wasn’t that long ago when he’d been able to look around, even in remote locations like…

  Katie Bachelder

  May 26, 2017

  Uncategorized

  death, legends, oblivion, Short Story, souls, the lorelei