3 Poetic Forms You Might Not Have Heard Of
You’ve done it! You’ve found yourself some quiet time and you’re wondering what you should be writing about. You’ve dipped your toes in form writing before, but you want to try something new, or old rather, something a bit more ambitious than the well-treaded sonnet....
Perfect Songs For Those Nice Moments in Every Book
Perfect Songs For Those Nice Moments in Every Book Have you ever read a scene from a book, and instantly knew what the perfect background song would be? Have you ever watched a scene from a television show or movie, and the background music helped strengthen the...
4 Spooky Storytelling Podcasts to Get into the Halloween Spirit
Podcasts have become an extremely popular source of entertainment over the last few years, and they don’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Busy writers rejoice! Podcasts, like audio books, are an excellent way to hear the words of writers all over the world...
Finding Inspiration in Your Own Photographs
No matter how prolific a writer you are, we all run into moments where we need a little extra inspiration. Here are some tips on how to use your own photographs to inspire all elements of storytelling, from mood to setting to character and beyond. There are plenty of...
Writing the Weird, Bizarre, and Impossible
“...most of the books I have written and those I minted to write originate from the thought that it will be impossible for me to write a book of that kind: when I have convinced myself that such a book is completely beyond my capacities of temperament or skill, I sit...
Roleplaying Games and Podcasts Collide in The Adventure Zone: A New Take on Oral Storytelling
Oral storytelling has existed for as long as humans have been able to use language. Every story told has a foundation that was built on stories told before it, starting at the beginning, in the tellings of ancient myths. The mythic structures utilized by storytellers...
My Change From Laptop to Tablet (and Why You Might Want To Consider It, Too)
When it comes to writing on the go, away from your desktop, nothing can beat the reliable luxury of a laptop - except, maybe, a tablet. Here’s what I noticed when I made the switch. Last Christmas, I asked for an iPad, mainly to have a better place to do digital art...
Weird and Surprising Facts about Your Favorite Authors and the Writing Craft
Most of us have been reading and writing from an early age, but there’s quite a bit of information out there that may stop you in your tracks regarding the origins and stories behind your favorite words, authors, and novels. Let’s take a look at some of the weird,...
Podcasts for the Book Lover
During months of self-isolation and quarantine, it often felt as though we had endless hours to spend on our own. A frequently asked question in the last year was “what quarantine hobby did you pick up?” For many of the book lovers out there, myself included, it was a...
What the Folk is That? Retelling (and Hopefully De-cringing) Classic Tales
Cringe? In MY fairy tales? It’s more likely than you might think. After all, very few stories age gracefully, I’d go so far as to say hardly any of them do. Fagin is referred to as “the Jew” several times throughout Oliver Twist, there are maybe three female...
Reckless Writing: 4 Poetry Exercises for Spontaneous Composition
Poetry can feel restricted. Like most styles of writing, it is deeply personal and blooms in solitude. It’s often viewed among the arts as a cold and lonely craft. Musicians can jam, singers can belt, painters can thrash buckets at a canvas, dancers can sweat and...
How to Make Your Fiction Cinematic
We all remember a cinematic moment from our favorite movie, recounting it scene by scene for our friends around the lunch table in high school, but when does anyone talk about their favorite cinematic moment from a book? Hardly ever it seems. Much of this is due to...
