If you have been writing fiction for some time now, then deus ex machina is no stranger to you. A Latin term that means “god out of the machine,” it is a literary device wherein a stunning shift of events independent from a character’s action occurs...
Have you ever wondered why your work isn’t selling? You have a great cover and a tempting description, which leaves Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature, where you have seconds to persuade a potential reader to click “Buy”. Consider which opening would interest you most.
1. Janet was...
In How to Write a Unique Spooky Story, I wrote about how to write a unique spooky story by either creating your own monster, creature, or horror yourself or by finding a monster that is not well known. I advised finding a monster by researching...
In How to Write a Unique Spooky Story, I wrote about how to write a unique spooky story by either creating your own monster, creature, or horror yourself or by finding a monster that is not well known. I advised finding a monster by researching...
In “How to Write a Review” I wrote about how many writers struggle when it comes to writing a review as they are never quite sure what to include, what not to include, how long it should be, what to focus on, and some are...
Writing as an art form is a cerebral experience, a painting with words. Unlike a painting on a canvas with solid shadings and crisp lines perceived by the naked eye, writers invite readers to inhabit a world, real or imagined, through words and phrases, to...
In “How to Write a Review” I wrote about how many writers struggle when it comes to writing a review as they are never quite sure what to include, what not to include, how long it should be, what to focus on, and some are...
The husband of the famed author of Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelly was a poet who clawed his way to fame posthumously. Not only was he close to other important figures in Romanticism, such as Lord Byron, Love Peacock, and Leigh Hunt, but he also wrote...
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, was a classic that many have read through dark and stormy nights, and retold as a cautionary tale against the domineering nature of science and the fragility of religion. Mary Shelly was the architect of this masterpiece. Not only that,...
Nowadays, you might hear the words “political correctness” get thrown around here and there. Normally, it’s used to address those who are either too offended or not offended enough. But more than that, it’s used to purposefully choose language that won’t exclude, marginalize, or insult...
