Have you ever had a conversation with somebody and they just seemed to talk about everything and nothing at the same time? Like you knew words were coming out of their mouth, but you had no idea what they were… Continue reading

I’m going to make a statement that may or may not be true: most well-renowned authors were/are very well-read people. Of course, this is true for most, not all. However, I have noticed a pattern that most of the authors… Continue reading

Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of characters that seem very similar to each other in different movies and films? How there’s always some poor orphaned boy with the potential for greatness or the downtrodden girl who… Continue reading

Have you ever noticed how books, movies, and songs have the same message? This is probably because they have the same theme. The theme is what defines the story, melody, or screenplay. It dictates the characters’ actions, motivations, and eventually… Continue reading

So you’re brainstorming a novel and you come across a problem: you don’t know what genre this book should be in. Should it be a daring adventure with knights and dragons or a hair-raising novel with jumpscares at every turn… Continue reading

Character arcs are at the heart of every story. If the character doesn’t grow and change, how can the story move forward? This is something that I’ve struggled with in writing, up until recently, when I was studying Mary Shelley’s… Continue reading

So you’re beginning to write your story, but you aren’t really sure what platform to write it on. But wait: what about all those amazing references that you have for your characters? And how on earth can you make that… Continue reading

A little while ago, I read a book called Personality Plus by Florence Littauer. This book is primarily about understanding the four main personalities (sanguine, melancholy, choleric, and phlegmatic) so that you can understand why people behave the way they… Continue reading

So here you are: you have your outline and the general idea of what your novel is going to look like. But you’ve run into another problem. How do you write the chapters? This is something that’s stumped me for… Continue reading

I don’t know about you, but this is an area in my writing where I’m constantly learning how to do better. Most of my stories’ villains have the same motivation, and almost all of them are the most shallow, petty… Continue reading