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Gallows Humor and How To Use It

Gallows humor is a type of humor people use when they know they’re trapped in a hopeless situation, one in which no one survives. For example, say your character, or any beloved character in general, is in a dire situation. The villain is winning, and...

The Literary Delights of the Heartbeat

Do you know the feeling of being in a loved one’s arms? When you’re just surrounded by the warmth of someone you care about, and you feel completely and utterly safe from the world? Do you ever find yourself listening to their heartbeat, and feeling...

The Beauty of Obsession

Whenever we think about characters like Frollo from Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or the immature lovers of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, or even the twisted love story of Lucian and Livia from S.L.Baron’s Vanilla Blood, there’s a certain element that makes the story...

Australian Monsters Part 1

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...

Steps to Writing Mental Illness in Fictional Characters

One area that many fiction writers struggle with is accurately portraying mental illness in their characters. This difficulty often stems from the writer not truly understanding what mental illness actually is. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, (2018) mental illness is defined as “any of a broad...

The Beauty of the Nightshade

The deadly nightshade, or atropa belladonna, is no doubt a beautiful flower. According to Penny Dreadful, it lures you in with an intoxicating scent, just daring you to pluck it from the ground and claim it as your own. And despite the fact you know...

The Famous Urban Legend of the Headless Horseman

A few days ago, my boyfriend decided to download a modification for a game we both loved: Skyrim. It was supposed to introduce new monsters that we could fight against. However, as we were playing, I couldn’t help but notice that there was one monster...

What to Know About West Palm Beach Florida as a Setting

In my article “Setting: Elements of Towns and Cities,” I wrote about how many writers believe a setting is merely a location; however, setting is not just a location, but everything that would define a location as a place. The seven elements that a writer...

Don't Think That You Should Never Tell!

Books expounding on the necessity of showing and not telling abound. But, it’s almost clichéd, or so oft quoted that it’s assumed that every writer knows what “show, don’t tell” means. What it doesn’t mean is that telling is never appropriate. Here’s a quotation from one of my...

Creating A Character With Schizophrenia

When you are creating the characters for your novel, it is vital that you give them some depth and make them as realistic to the reader as possible. If you are going to give them a mental condition, then it is absolutely vital you do...