Minecraft as Storytelling

Minecraft as Storytelling

  A little more than 10 years ago, I started to play Minecraft. At first, I just watched my father play Minecraft over his shoulder, but eventually, he got annoyed by my back-seat gaming, so he set me up with my own computer and Minecraft account. Once the...
Who Am I-Who Are You-Who Are They 

Who Am I-Who Are You-Who Are They 

  All novels, essays, and short stories follow this rule; the narrator speaks from a point of view you can recognize. There are five commonly accepted PoV’s: First-Person, Second-Person, Third-Person-Limited, Third-Person-Omniscient, and Third-Person-Objective....
Hybrid Books I Loved to Read with the Seasons

Hybrid Books I Loved to Read with the Seasons

Spring: Bluets by Maggie Nelson  “This deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you.” Maggie Nelson’s Bluets is one of my favorites due to its unwillingness to belong to any single genre. The poets call it poetry and the essayists call it a lyric essay, but...
Zelda Games That Have Inspired Me as a Writer

Zelda Games That Have Inspired Me as a Writer

Hey, listen! Last year, the sequel to Breath of the Wild, the latest Zelda game, Tears of The Kingdom—on May 12, to be exact. In honor of this anniversary, I had to reflect on the Zelda games that helped make me a writer and chose my career path. I would not be the...
Three Ways to Spice Up Your Romance Writing

Three Ways to Spice Up Your Romance Writing

Love triangles. They’ve been all the rage recently, due in part to the wild popularity of novels like The Hunger Games and A Court of Thorns and Roses. (For the former, the brilliance of how the love triangle works is better explained in tumblr posts by users...

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