A beloved plot in fiction is the classic rags-to-riches tale. It’s a story people want to read whenever they’re down on their luck or hope to find their one true love from far, far away. It’s a story we’ve seen in books, TV shows, movies,...
In a particularly famous book, called Alice in Wonderland, little Alice goes off on a childlike adventure to a place called Wonderland. There, she meets all sorts of weird creatures, such as a talking caterpillar, talking flowers, talking animals, and a Queen that wants to...
Just over one hundred years ago, the United States entered World War I. Around the same time, President Woodrow Wilson approved the Emergency Fleet plan – a plan that commissioned twenty-four concrete ships to be used for the war.
Wait. Concrete ships? Doesn’t concrete, you know…sink?
It...
Twisted serial killers, assassins, mobsters, and Ponzi-schemers. All are fascinating in their own way, but crime alone doesn’t link all of them. Their minds do too. The media sensationalizes these people and others because of their deeds and the idea that they are psychopaths. Psychopaths...
It took eight years to finally come to a resolution on how to configure numbers accurately. Or was it 8 years? Does it really matter whether an author writes eight or 8? Well, actually it does. But, like anything else, there are rules to dictate...
When I was in middle school, I wrote my first manuscript and was prepared to send it off to a publisher. But before I did that, I actually emailed one of my favorite writers of all time, Anne Rice. A few days later, surprisingly, she...
Parenthood is one of life’s hardest endeavors. It involves raising kids, attending PTA meetings, dealing with the consequences our children are too young to understand. And although parents will tell you that it’s worth it, those very same parents will, at times, ask themselves why...
From masterpieces such as Moby Dick to analyses like Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War, Herman Melville has certainly left his mark on the literary world. Melville is a force to be reckoned with, with a majority of his works centered around morality and man’s struggle between...
She had done it. Again. But also way back in the past tense, she had done it. Or, should it be, she did it? Had done, had gone, had been – all words of the distant past. We use the word ‘had’ to create a...
In these current, extraordinary circumstances we find ourselves in, how are you spending your time? When we are used to a daily routine of going to work, socializing with friends or visiting family, now we find ourselves self-isolating at home and lacking a daily structure....
