Posts | Avril Marie Aalund

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...

It’s All In The Details | How I Use Lists To Enhance A Scene

Terry Pratchett once said, “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” The first draft is inevitably meant to be a mess....

Switching Up Description With Paint Swatches

Up until recently, things have been a little chaotic behind the screen a few weeks ago because while I was in the preliminary stages of...

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself…

Hello and Happy Launch Day! My name is Avril Marie Aalund, and it is both my pleasure and honor to welcome you to my blog. I am an...