Freebie Mondays: A Year Without Summer (Story 3 of 22 Stories in 2022) Freebie Mondays: A Year Without Summer (Story 3 of 22 Stories in 2022) By Megan Cutler | May 30, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment Since I write roughly 22 stories every year, I thought it might be fun to do a project for 2022. In 2022, the 22 shorts I write for my blog will be taken from prompts related to the 31 stories in 31 days project from January of 2022. Each will relate to the multiverse that … Read More Read More
Make Your OTP (One True Pairing)! Make Your OTP (One True Pairing)! By Megan Cutler | March 21, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment I put my first book each year out in February. This year, I hoped to coordinate that release with Valentine’s day. (Sadly, it didn’t work out. I needed an extra week to polish the book properly.) But I had already come up with a cute idea for a Valentine’s themed stream to promote the new … Read More Read More
Freebie Mondays: the Phases of Dreamers Do Lie Freebie Mondays: the Phases of Dreamers Do Lie By Megan Cutler | January 31, 2022 | Comments 2 comments I decided to do something interesting (and a tiny bit dangerous). I opened an old draft of one of my novels and used Word’s comparison feature to examine how much it changed. For those that aren’t familiar with this particular feature, it essentially highlights in red every change made between the different versions of the … Read More Read More
Myths and Legends of the Caltaran Empire Myths and Legends of the Caltaran Empire By Megan Cutler | March 29, 2021 | Comments 1 comment Now here is the tale of how the world was made… In the beginning of days, the Gods lived alone. For only Chendryn, the god of earth, possessed the secrets of creation. His brothers and sisters, the gods and goddesses of fire, air and water, could create only by his grace. What they built, Chendryn … Read More Read More
Freebie Mondays: Fragments Freebie Mondays: Fragments By Megan Cutler | February 22, 2021 | Comments 0 Comment I mentioned awhile back that I used to jot down little fragments of poetry, song lyrics or prose that popped into my head throughout the day. I have tons of emails, notebooks and computer files filled with passing fragments from my early writing days. Somewhere along the line, I stopped writing these little scribbles down. … Read More Read More
More Adventures in Map Making More Adventures in Map Making By Megan Cutler | January 25, 2021 | Comments 0 Comment Last year I published 4 brand new books (across two different series). Which feels like a lot when you consider that in 2019 I published absolutely nothing new. For each of my new releases, I try to devote blog time to the project’s development. I like allowing readers to glimpse inside my brain at various … Read More Read More
The Dream Things True Boxset is finally here! The Dream Things True Boxset is finally here! By Megan Cutler | December 14, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment I think we can all agree 2020 has been a long and bizarre year. When I penned my goals for 2020 I, like everyone else, had no idea that things were going to turn upside down in March. Unlike in previous years where I simply wrote down things I would like to be able to … Read More Read More
Announcing Life is But a Dream – Available Now! Announcing Life is But a Dream – Available Now! By Megan Cutler | October 12, 2020 | Comments 2 comments Way back in 2008, when I wrote Dreamers Do Lie for the first time, I did it wrong. It was the first time I made notes. The first time I planned ahead. The first time I knew how a story was going to end from the moment I started. I thought that would be enough … Read More Read More
A Behind the Scenes Look at My First Fantasy Cosmology A Behind the Scenes Look at My First Fantasy Cosmology By Megan Cutler | September 14, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment One of the big things writers like to talk about in regards to novels is theme. Some writers suggest determining theme early in the writing process so you can make everything fit it. But this has never been my approach. I usually allow my stories to develop a theme while I’m working on them. Once … Read More Read More
Transforming Inspiration into a Fantastic Novel Setting Transforming Inspiration into a Fantastic Novel Setting By Megan Cutler | August 17, 2020 | Comments 1 comment One of my biggest inspirations for Dreamers Do Lie was Dante’s Inferno, as I mentioned a few weeks ago when I reviewed the anatomy of Dante’s Hell. There were several reasons I ultimately simplified my fantasy version of Hell, though I kind of ran out of room to talk about them last time. So I … Read More Read More