January 30, 2019, by Alina Top Tips for your Year Abroad I was fortunate enough to be able to spend the third year of my degree in Paris – my favourite city in the world. However, it can be easy to look back on the whole experience throug...
Originally Posted by Terry D In my short story collection, I linked all the stories with one over-arching story, similar to what Bradbury did with The Illustrated Man. So, I guess that sort of makes that a novel with chapter titles. I’...
We sat down with recent SLN Access winner Julia Lang, a second year Advertising & Graphic Design student at Humber College. She won tickets to see P!NK in concert. Read what she had to say about the experience. How did you discover Stu...
When I was younger, I never got into trouble at school. It seems that because I was the quiet, introspective type everyone assumed I could do no harm. Sometimes I tried to get into trouble just to defy expectation, but my plans seemed to ba...
Depends what you want from this character – do you want the reader to feel for her or purely hate her? The best villains either gain a level of sympathy from the reader or absolutely no common ground at all. This goes for massive fant...
The move is designed to prevent cheating via smartwatches designed to look like standard timepieces....
If this is fantasy, you can structure it any way you want. Don’t feel hamstrung by what you worry other people might think. You might be making more of this than you need to. I’d say get your basic structure in place, then add t...
It seems that a great many members on this forum are writing some kind of action story in which the protagonist is a Badass. Sometimes, they’re medieval Badasses who enter a room swinging mighty swords and cutting the occupants in half. O...
If you’re known for your work in a particular genre, publishing a book that goes in an entirely different direction can be a chore. Here, Tim Wendel offers tips for approaching the challenge. By Tim Wendel I knew I had my work cut out for...