J.V. Montague
The Golden Heart, the third book I have ever written, is unlike anything else I have ever created. While my process for it has been much the same as it has been in the past, now it feels more streamlined. While there are many, many flaws in this first draft, I am proud of my […]
Originally posted to Instagram on July 11, 2021. Edits for clarity and grammar have been made. What is filtering? Filtering is when you add unnecessary words to your document explicitly telling the reader what the character sees, hears, feels, and thinks. It’s the most obvious in first person POV, but it occurs in third person […]
As we near the end of November, many of you will be feeling a little frazzled and burnt out on your projects. But with plenty of time left to go, you need to try and avoid burnout as much as you can. As some background, this past summer I hit some of the worst burnout […]
Intro On October 31, it’ll be a year since I started this blog. I had big plans: grow this platform along with my Instagram, consistently document my writing journey, share short stories, advice, the lot of it. And here I am. The last time I updated on here was ten months ago with a shoddy […]
Do you remember how we all had such high hopes for a year with such a swanky number? This past year was disastrous for many reasons, but it pays no fool to focus on the negative. There were only two obvious things that weren’t terrible for me this year, and one of them was my […]
I’m riding that wave of starting a new book and I’m trying to keep the dread at bay.
My current WIP is an odd little child of mine that’s wandering about, bumping into things, and getting lost in closets.
It’s too late for you have killed another, little lamb.
We all know what a bad book is, as in, when we hear someone say “this wasn’t a good book”, we know precisely what they’re talking about. I want to dive deeper into elements that make up a “bad book” or “poor writing”, then I want to explore why we’re so bothered by it.
J.V. Montague 