Ava Clary

Category: Writing

  • drop in the bucket

    Today I released my first book. I’m plagued by self-doubt. Why did I do this? There are so many books on Amazon. No one will ever find mine. You can’t find it unless you search directly for Ava Clary. Amazon won’t recommend it to anyone until it has sales data. How will this work? I’ll…

  • Where can I find free stuff for my website?

    Where can I find free stuff for my website?

    Free stuff is great. I know I’m always looking for a good deal, and unfortunately free sometimes doesn’t really mean free. Here are some of my resources for free stuff.

  • Writing Tips: Dramatic Scenes, oh the drama

    A how-to-write essay series by Ava Clary about writing dramatically. Be Dynamic and Dramatic I’m trying to figure out how ‘show, don’t tell’ works. What do people mean by show? Well, I’ve decided it means you write dynamically. You make drama happen. Here’s a scene I’m thinking about. I’ll start by describing a hotel and a…

  • Writing Tips, inspirations and characters

    Here’s the last of a writing essays series. I meant to post this years ago, but kept putting it off and left the draft hanging around. The full series of Writing Tips includes: Sharing and Stealing like an Artist The Act of Writing Design Advice for Writers Dramatic Scenes, oh the drama How to Write…

  • Writing tip: Design Advice for writers

    A how-to-write essay series by Ava Clary I love to take advice from one medium and apply it to writing. How exactly does this work? Well, you watch a YouTube video on a film director, or you discover a post about design, but you take all the tidbits and reconsider them from a writer’s point…