literature
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All the Tools You Need for Building Excellent Characters
Developing characters for a novel can be a lot of fun but also overwhelming. The following guide is meant to help you to develop a strategic plan to organize your characters and make them interesting enough for your readers to want to know them.
By Andrea Lawrence4 years ago in Journal
Tell Me More
Tell Me More My new therapist asked if I had experienced trauma in my life. I told her about the time a man bought me a drink in the Cheers bar in Boston while I was in 12th grade and visiting with my family. My brother was playing football for Dartmouth, and earlier that day they beat Harvard 14-7. Somehow, I snuck a few drinks from the bartender; my twenty-three-year-old cousin facilitated the Ouzo shots for me most likely. The man at the bar coerced me to exit into the alley with him, where he pulled me closer, kissed me violently, and put one hand around my neck while twisting my nipple with the other. I was not safe.
By Candice Kelsey4 years ago in Journal
New York, Rome, Milan: Writing About Places You've Never Visited
Setting is an important part of any story. Whether it’s a memoir or a fiction novel, your story’s location can help set the tone of the story. It shows your character’s strengths and weaknesses and bolsters the overall theme of the novel. While visiting the location you plan to use in your book firsthand is always preferred, sometimes it’s not feasible. For example, my novel The Loch takes place in Balloch, Scotland. Scotland is on my bucket list, but I have yet to make it there.
By Beth Freely4 years ago in Journal
My Fascination with the Fantasy Genre
It all started when I was five years old. I don't even remember learning how to read—my mother always said I had an affinity for reading almost since the beginning. One of my first memories of picking a book to read was on a cold winter's day, just a month or two after my fifth birthday. When I close my eyes, I can still feel my fingers gliding across the worn spines of the books resting on my parents' bookshelf that day.
By Aleese Hughes4 years ago in Journal
Which is the best Content management for bloggers in 2022?
We compare three content management systems (CMS) for blogging. There are tons of CMS available for writers. I know everything is fine in CMS. But sometimes, we compromise with the text editor. Most cms editors provide different types of the editor and their functionality. A new person is also using CMS efficiently and starting a writing career.
By Rajdeep singh4 years ago in Journal
When Creative Writing Mixes with Science to Express Facts and Feelings about Earth’s Ecology
“We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity and indeed, all life on earth, now depends on us… Sir David Attenborough
By Annemarie Berukoff4 years ago in Journal
