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How to Write for Children

The most important thing to remember before you begin to write for young children is to get an equal balance of entertainment and simplicity. You want to engage them without being condescending or making the storyline too complicated. The first and most vital thing to...

How To Get Away With Murder

When I was little, I used to love watching the Investigation Discovery channel. Despite my parents' endeavors to try to drag me away from it, I kept switching on the channel. As such, whenever I read crime novels, I couldn’t help but ask myself who...

Horrific Inspirations: Child Sacrifices

When children are sacrificed in a society, it speaks volumes about the morality of that society. Children are generally seen as innocent, incorruptible beings, so it physically disturbs readers when something happens to them. The instances in history where child sacrifice is practiced often reflects...

Horror Tropes: The Final Girl

Whenever people think of women in the 1950s, especially in the entertainment industry, we think of tropes like the damsel-in-distress, or the supposedly strong heroine who ends up falling in love with the hero and doing everything humanly possible to bed him. Perhaps we even...

Horrific Inspirations: Exorcisms

Exorcisms are one of the most iconic practices of the Catholic Church. Whether it be casting out demons, or simply learning about the hierarchies of Heaven and Hell, or even showing just how good can overcome evil in the most dire of circumstances, exorcisms have...

Horrific Inspirations: Salem

The Salem Witch Trials was one of America’s most infamous psychological panics. Comparable to the Cold War’s Red Scare, the Salem Witch Hunts have inspired a number of stories, from American Horror Story to the ironically named TV show, Salem, to even books such as...

How to Write a Sociopath

When creating a sociopathic character, the disorder can be easily confused with the characteristics of a psychopath. Although they are both defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as being personality disorders, there are visible differences in the behaviour and diagnosis. Sociopaths...

Why Do You Write?

Working through my rewrite of my screenplay in the early hours of this morning got me to thinking about the reasons I began to write, and if that first motivation to create is still the same today. What exactly do I want to achieve through my...

Writing A Character With Anxiety

Anxiety affects everyone at some time in their life, whether it is a pending examination or a job interview. But when a person’s anxiety affects their everyday life and hinders their normal routine, then that is referred to as an Anxiety Disorder. That is the...

The Use Of Sarcasm In Dialogue

When you are writing dialogue for your characters, a good way to make it unique is to make their language suit the nature of their personalities. A very good way to do this is to inject a little sarcasm into the conversation between characters. The use...