Write Like a Scalpel: Brutal, No-Nonsense Writing Rules to Cut the Fat & Hit Harder Struggling with fluffy prose or weak writing? Learn brutal, actionable rules to strip your work to its bones—no clichés, no filler, just impact. Discover how to kill your darlings, sharpen dialogue, a...

Say it - The 3rd Rule Of Writing
open.substack.com/pub/andersva...

#booksky #booktips #WritingWithVane

#booksky #booktok

Forgot the tag initially. Please have a read ☺️

The Lost Daughter by A. Vane A Quick Glance

open.substack.com/pub/abigaill...

A wonderful and thoughtful review of The Lost Daughter.

Read it

Everything comes to those who wait,

… except books you have lent out.

Sure. She takes pride in it. Very defiant character.

Sure do. The FMC gets nickname through her actions, which get used, both in awe and in fear.
There's a whole little cult that uses the nicknames throughout.

Getting more action on my little bluesky than ny 3K followers on X.
X is cooked.
Bsky is it

Now, where’s my writers and readers?

#booksky

Everyone who's interested in norse should have this on their nightstand.

Available in both native Norwegian and translated to english.

#booksky #booktok

The Norse Scriptures.

The book everyone has kept asking for finally exists.

It's a biblical description from the beginning of the world--the emptiness of Ginnungagap--to the fiery end.

This book is thoroughly researched by an expert on norse and leaves behind the inaccuracies you often see.

Three Vane Books

The Norse Scriptures and The Unfinished Line

Your library is not complete without these five books. #booksky #booktok

How about the occasional essay on writing?

Outside of writing books, essays are my jam.

Why Most Writers Never Get Better (And Why Almost No One Will Tell You This)

Why Most Writers Never Get Better

Let’s dismantle the five structural delusions that keep countless writers stuck in an endless cycle of ineffective labor.

#booksky

www.andersvane.com/p/why-most-w...

This is absolutely true. I wrote about this in my little dissection of the queer identity of my "Kaldhall" books. Queer, but not to the exclusion of anyone (m/f etc.), especially given that the main plot starts with m/f.
bsky.app/profile/ande...

📚💙 #queer

The hall and the world of Kaldhall is structurally #queer, but not to the exclusion of anyone. It's not spoken of. It just is.

The anthology is also profoundly surreal, moreso than The Jotun Bride.

What is this place?

It's a hall described in the up-coming books "The Jotun Bride" and the up-coming anthology tentatively named "The Golden Spasm".

It's not for the faint of heart, but for those who belong, it is a revelationary text.

Not because everyone survives beautifully. But because body shame has no place here. Only substance and Will remain.

For a queer reader used to forms, diagnoses, categories, laws, family gazes, and HR meetings, this is a perverse relief: Here, you are represented. Here, you are reshaped.

The Queer Identity of Kaldhall

The brutal queer metamorphosis of kaldhall

It is not a "safe space".

But we are speaking of a hall where the mountain itself sorts bodies, tests nerves, uses some, discards others, and yet ends up as one of the most mercilessly liberating places a queer reader can escape to.

Cover to The Road To Hel

The Road To Hel 📚💙

Neurotic Kjell and his Indian partner Sundar, who is armed with an unshakeable calm and a thermos full of tea must brave the road to Hel in this hilarious book.

Think Terry Pratchett meets Norse mythology.

#booksky

This is Bifurcation.

Would you read such a story?

Act 2: “Wait, what?”

Act 3: “I’m not sure what is real anymore.”

Ending: There is no path. Only residue.

Done right, the reader comes away exalted. Done wrong, they think you just dropped your manuscript into a blender.

In other words, stories start with low entropy and ends with high entropy.

Example: A robot wakes up alone on a ship.

Reader. Okay, I know what game we’re playing.

Now perform narrative apotheosis via noise.

You get:
Act 1: “I get it.”

The mind is an obsession machine that will turn any sequence of events into a "Lesson." We are addicted to causality.

In standard narratives, options narrow as the story progresses.

In Act 1, anything can happen. By Act 3, only one specific inevitable thing can happen.

Why Most Writers Never Get Better (And Why Almost No One Will Tell You This)

www.andersvane.com/p/why-most-w...

A wake up call for authors.

What's your blind zone?

The Writer Who Was Buried Alive Because He Was Busy Becoming Someone Else

The Writer Who Was Buried Alive

A fresh look at Ari Behn, his life and his passing, offering a perspective you have not read before.

What stands out most to you about his work and the way he lived?

www.andersvane.com/p/the-writer...

The Norse Scriptures is out.

This is the Norse world that was hidden from you.

You will not find Snorri’s sanitized scraps here. You will not find the dry, dusty fragments of academics. And you will certainly not find the unholy, bastardized noise of Marvel comics.

Glasir er et gylne tre som står foran Valhalls porter i Åsgard. Det er kjent for sine gylne blader som skinner som ild i sollyset. Navnet betyr 'den glitrende' eller 'den strålende'.

Glasir er det gylne treet som står foran Valhalls porter i Åsgard, kjent for sine gylne blader som skinner som ild i sollyset. Navnet betyr "den glitrende" eller "den strålende".

Glasir er det gylne treet som står foran Valhalls porter i Åsgard, kjent for sine skinnende, gylne blader. Navnet betyr "den glitrende" eller "den strålende".

Turs-veðr er et voldsomt uvær, antatt å være skapt av jotner. Det er kjennetegnet ved sin ekstreme styrke og destruktivitet, som om det er av overnaturlig opprinnelse. Det er satt sammen av ordene 'þurs' (jotun) og 'veðr' (vær).