Articles | Avril Marie Aalund

Twenty-Three Things You May Not Know About Me

Yesterday was my birthday. I am now twenty-three and hoping that what Blink-182 said about no one liking you when you’re Twenty-Three...

Putting It All In Perspective | Third Person POV (Omniscient)

Point of View (POV) is defined as the perspective from which a story is being told. This can be either from the perspective of a...

Putting It All In Perspective | Third-Person POV (Limited)

Point of View (POV) is defined as the perspective from which a story is being told. This can be either from the perspective of a...

Putting It All In Perspective | Second-Person POV

Point of View (POV) is defined as the perspective from which a story is being told. This can be either from the perspective of a...

Putting It All In Perspective | First-Person POV

Point of View (POV) is defined as the perspective from which a story is being told. This can be either from the perspective of a...

Make Way for Rubber Ducklings | How Reading Aloud to Inanimate Objects Can Liven Up Your Editing

As a student in college, I got to host my own radio program as a member of the school’s radio station. Part of this was going on the air...

Productive Procrastination | Digital Paper Dolls and Character Design

If there is any single thing that defined an average afternoon when I was in elementary school, it was the horde of online dress-up and...

New Year, New Writing Goals | My Plans for 2019

Happy New Year! 2018 is officially over and we are settling into another trip around the sun. With a new year comes making new...

Q&A Post | January 2019

After meeting my first goal of one hundred followers on Twitter (What!?) and my second goal of two hundred and fifty (WHAT!?!?), I...

Does Size Really Matter? | 1,223 Words On Word Counts

Simply put, a word count is the total number of words used in a piece of writing. It’s a simple concept, yet it’s something we writers...