Heroes, Action, & Adventure!
I’m E.M. Linden, a sci-fi/fantasy writer that loves to tell stories about epic heroes and action-packed adventures. This is your home for reading my web fiction and keeping up with my various projects.
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Jan 2025 Book Recommendation: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Read more: Jan 2025 Book Recommendation: Skyward by Brandon SandersonIntro It’s time for the first reading recommendation of 2025! I’ve got a lot of great books that I’m looking forward to sharing with you this year, so deciding which one to do first took some thought. But, in the end, I figured that you can’t go wrong with a good old Sanderson novel. Skyward…
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What to Expect From the Blog in 2025
Read more: What to Expect From the Blog in 2025Intro With the new year upon us, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to lay out the road ahead. While there won’t be many changes to the sorts of posts I’ll be doing this year, there will be some things that are going to be a little different from last year that I’ll…
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Dec 2024 Book Recommendation: Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl
Read more: Dec 2024 Book Recommendation: Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret StohlIntro For our last book recommendation of the year, I thought we’d do a fun, geeky read. As a long-time Marvel fan—and especially a Black Widow fan—I was very excited when I learned that there was a novel about her. But, whether or not you’re already a Black Widow fan, there are lots of reasons…
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How I Design My Characters
Read more: How I Design My CharactersIntro As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an artist along with a writer, and being able to do my own artwork has proven to be a very useful—and fun—skill to have, especially when paired with my writing. I’m fortunate enough to have an advantage that a lot of writers don’t have, as I don’t necessarily have…
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Nov 2024 Book Recommendation: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
Read more: Nov 2024 Book Recommendation: The Sword of Summer by Rick RiordanIntro Ever since the success of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan has been among the most well-known middle grade authors of our time. He’s expanded his universe with not only more Percy Jackson books, but also with series that follow completely different characters who are dealing with completely different pantheons of gods from…
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How I Create Settings
Read more: How I Create SettingsIntro Unless you’re writing something that takes place in the real world, with absolutely no made-up locations added to it, you’re going to have to do a bit of worldbuilding. Whether your story’s set in the modern world in a made-up town, or on a totally different planet, it’s important to have at least a…
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Oct 2024 Book Recommendation: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Read more: Oct 2024 Book Recommendation: Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoIntro Fall is now in full swing, so I thought it would be a good time to share one of my favorite fall reads. Plus, there’s a fair amount of creepiness in it as well, making it great for spooky season. If you’re a fan of YA fantasy, you’ve almost certainly heard of Six of…
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How I Write Action Scenes
Read more: How I Write Action ScenesIntro I’m just going to go right out and say that I love writing action scenes. Whether they’re fight scenes, chase scenes, or anything in between, they’ve always been one of my favorite things to write. They pretty much guarantee excitement and also often serve as a great place to show how characters act under…
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Sep 2024 Book Recommendation: Renegades by Marissa Meyer
Read more: Sep 2024 Book Recommendation: Renegades by Marissa MeyerIntro As someone who loves superheroes, I’m happy that superhero novels are slowly becoming more and more common, to the point where even a bestselling author like Marissa Meyer wrote not just one but a whole trilogy of them. While Renegades definitely isn’t quite as popular as the Lunar Chronicles, it is regarded highly by…
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How I Write Characters That Are a Different Gender From Me
Read more: How I Write Characters That Are a Different Gender From MeIntro One of the most common writing questions I see online is how to write a character who is a different gender from you—especially a main character. And I think it’s great that people are trying to be more conscious and respectful when it comes to writing characters who aren’t the same gender as them,…
