Articles | Avril Marie Aalund

What Is The Inciting Incident?

This past May, I ran a series on prologues and epilogues, and one term that popped up multiple times was the "inciting incident." I gave...

Full Moon Fever | Elements Of Fiction That Made "The Quarry" A Howling Good Time

With recent posts about Pantsing through Elden Ring or why the giraffe scene in The Last Of Us, it's no secret that video games are one...

Flowers, Wood, And Musk | The Writer's Fascination With Fragrance

Romance novels are known for lavish character descriptions. Flowing and highly detailed, many writers love pointing out the smallest and...

Pantser Ring | Elden Ring And The Pantsing Method

Writing is certainly my passion, but it's not the only hobby you'll find me dabbling in. Gaming is one of my favorite past times you'll...

Queens Of The New Broken Scene | My 5SOS Soundcheck Experience

My favorite feeling in the world is held within those few moments after the lights go out at a concert, just before the band takes the...

The FYI of DNF | Four Reasons Readers Stop Reading

DNF. Three letters writers dread when the reviews start rolling in. DNF indicates the person writing a review did not finish reading, and...

Burnout Blues | July Check-In

At the top of the year, I wrote about my hopes for 2022 to be different. 2021 wasn't my best year creatively. Part of that had to do with...

A Spot Of Comfort | TLOU's Giraffe Scene

With news of a PS5 remake in the works and an HBO series set to debut in 2023, ten years after the game's release, I recently revisited...

Getting Ahead | Why I Write My Blog Posts So Far In Advance

Plenty of things happen on my side of the screen that most people don't get to see. There's the abundance of scrap paper with potential...

D I (Not) Y | Behind The Scenes Of My Website Refresh

Writing is often a solitary hobby. Many of us have a habit of curling up by ourselves with our notebooks or computers, our hot drink of...