Dana Swift

Young Adult Fantasy Author

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The Most Common Advice I Hear for Beginning Writers and What I Have to Add

June 15, 2018 by danaswift2@gmail.com

I started writing when I was young and I would obsess over the question: What advice do you give young writers. I would hunt down interviews, scour YouTube, and search blog posts to find how all types of authors would answer. Want to know what I found? A lot (and I mean a lot) say […]

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How Worldbuilding Should be Like Glitter

January 13, 2018 by danaswift2@gmail.com

Okay, so a quick story. When I was in color guard (it’s a team sport where you dance and throwing flags as visuals for the marching band), one season we wore costumes with glitter. And no matter how many times I washed it, glitter would get everywhere. It would dust the bus seats, freckle my […]

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Being a Writer and Finding Others Out There

October 29, 2017 by danaswift2@gmail.com

Can we talk about shyness for a moment? Shyness is hard. You think, well I’ll grow out of this… hopefully. But you don’t really know how that’s going to happen, especially when in your free time you like to be alone, in your room, typing on a keyboard, creating people and interactions that don’t exist. […]

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