Blog – Freya Lojord

Romantasy Books Where the Heroine Is Locked Away

Best romantasy books with heroines locked away behind walls, prisons, or cages where the female main character is physically confined but finds love, strength, and magic within the walls. These stories combine romance, danger, and high stakes. Read More ...

Stages of day and night light

In my first drafts, I often found the day progressing from twilight to darkness and then suddenly to the first rays of sun, or from dawn to twilight and back again. I’ve seen it all. So here is a natural progression of light, from complete darkness in the morning to night: Read More ...

Everything in a novel is an arc of change

Writing a novel is like drawing a Sierpinski triangle. Read More ...

Learning to write beautiful third-person prose without overusing pronouns

When reading over my own writing, I often find a lot of sentences starting with “she”, a name or “her”. I know I shouldn’t use the name too much, so I replace it with pronouns. The result is less than perfect prose that is repetitive and does not sign. Read More ...