Writing Tips from award winning Citadel 7 book series author Yuan Jur. Helpful tips on writing for everyone who loves to write.
Citadel 7 Worlds Citadel 7 worlds for my characters’ foundation and their story I use Joseph Campbell’s 12 steps and an eagle’s view to bring everything to life. In constructing the worlds for my characters I first consider the comparison of what is ordinary for them and what is alien to them. My superverse traverses […]
Character Latest Profiles To bring characters to life they have be vivid, so vivid the reader or viewer feels they can feel them and if it were possible approach and talk to each one. For that reason I go to great lengths to be able to have the readable real lives of each character brought
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Final draft & beyond Final draft & beyond – I write epics of a vast superverse involving complex and fully developed races in both macro and micro culture. My worlds seamlessly traverse mortal and ethereal boundaries, which have their own politics, personalities, heroes and serious bad guys. The plots and story lines interlace just like
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Yuan Jur’s Blog on Writing… Aim is to lay down some thoughts on the art of storytelling as told using written words in invoke and open the vast reserves of imagination we all have. Artists who use a brush or indeed theses days a tablet are not so different from the imagineer who paints with
Regarding advice about being an author; Authors new or long-standing, everyone discovers that publishing and getting published is a very fickle industry. Without authors, mega millions both professionally and recreationally would have to find something else to make money from and entertain themselves. Authors, true authors, are creative inspirational individuals. People who produce avenues into
Dead Out of Time - Winter 1978. From his teens Allan Francis always stood in a doorway between the living and something else. Now his dead jailbird brother Kev haunts him day and night, blaming him for what happened.
Wanting answers, Allan returns to Adaminaby, a little town from his youth in the Australian Snowy Mountains High Country. It’s a place where mysterious deaths and missing persons go unnoticed by all outsiders.
An urban legend warns; Never have the misfortune to get lost on your way, for if the sandman finds you, you’ll never see another sunny day. To find the answers he seeks, Allan steps into a macabre struggle across two worlds. It’s a fight that threatens his very existence, and the lives of many stranded in a town beyond time.