She said. He said. They said.
Who said? There’s nothing more frustrating to a reader than pages of dialogue, presumably between two people, with no identifying tags/labels to explain who’s saying what and to whom. Some of the biggest names in the writing industry do this....
Queen Victoria’s reign was known for its social progressiveness. There was a push to integrate both religion and morality, and as a result, politico-social reform came to focus. And while much of society was changing during the time, much of this change has been shown...
Of course, there are times when science and religion work together. There are times when our experiments reaffirm our beliefs, whatever they may be. They could tell us of the beauty of this world, the deities that may or may not be living in it,...
The theory of evolution describes how animal characteristics could change from one environment to another. It talks about how long animals would have to be in a certain environment to attain these characteristics, and how these changes could either help or hinder a population’s survival....
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...
