When I was little, my mom took me to a wonderful carnival. I laughed at the clowns, ate most of the cotton candy, and enjoyed the other acts such as acrobatics and knife throwing. Cheerful smiles and gleeful giggles reached my ears, and alongside the...
With works such as Silent Hill, Pet, and Frankenstein, the horror genre is rife with symbols. Whether it be in the form of saying goodbye to a lover the protagonist may never see again, or remembering the fact that they just survived a horrific night...
We’re all familiar with Mother Goose, Disney, and even the Brothers Grimm. Whenever we think of these stories, we think of innocence, perfection, or some other nonsense that still existed in our youth. Popular authors such as Gail Levine Carson and Alex Flinn have utilized...
Just recently, my mother and I decided to watch Annabelle: The Creation. It wasn’t as subtle as the other Conjuring movies, but it was good nevertheless. I had also finished a psychological suspense novel, Lara’s Journal, by A. Gavazzoni, which, of course, kept me on...
Massacring millions of people just minding their own business, or killing a cute little puppy in front of its young owner; watching strangers being sadistically tortured, or torturing someone in front of you; gauging the nightmarish sins of good and evil is a part of...
Fanfiction is when a writer takes the story and/or characters from a book, TV show, movie, comic, video game, or other work and repurposes them in their own story without owning the original content. There are multiple archives that host fanfiction from multiple sources and...
Fanfiction is when a writer takes the story and/or characters from a movie, TV show, book, comic, or other work and repurposes them in their own story. There are numerous websites that host huge archives of fanfiction that are organized based on the type of...
Religion is a very big field to write about because there are so many different religions and there are different off shoots of the different religions. The size of the topic area means that a writer needs to narrow the topic down by perspective and...
If you love reading legal thrillers, then you know that John Grisham is an authority on writing fiction. With several bestsellers under his belt, John Grisham has earned his place as one of the greatest in the genre and his opinion on writing fiction is...
Congratulations, you have finished your first draft. Now what?
Every author writes their story with a lot of excitement. This initial writing is the fun part. You are excited to see your plot take shape and your characters come to life. However, the next part is...
