If you are avoiding writing, if you tell yourself you don’t have enough time, try the following: Write a short description of what is waiting for you at your desk. What will happen when you sit down to write? Remember: Writing is never ab...
It’s midterm season, which means it’s time to brush up on those best study tips and tricks for acing your next exam. Because otherwise, just picture this… The big midterm worth 30% of your grade is tomorrow. After hours of doing every...
I finally cracked around the four-week mark. Setting down my abundantly annotated stack of assigned readings, I buried my tired face into my palms and wondered if I was the only one who was struggling this badly with the coursework. Onc...
January 19, 2021, by Charli New Hobbies For When Lockdown Gets Old Bored, maybe? Well, you’re far from the only one. It’s almost an entire year since we were first plunged into lockdown. No doubt we’ve all exhausted the banana-bread-m...
I think 2021 will be good. I’ve laid groundwork and plan to stick to only one pen name. I’ve established myself a little in my niche, have begun to find what I’ll specialize in compared to what other authors offer in the n...
In terms of genre, Bizarro fiction is quite distinct from Weird fiction. They seem similar on paper but they have very different audiences in practice. They are both speculative, somewhat related to horror/SF/fantasy, but Weird Fiction tend...
I decided to bring this up. I had some misconceptions about conflict and I wanted to share incase anyone else made the same mistake. Creating a character’s biography: Newspaper editors keep a file of biographies, or bios, on hand for ...
Have you wondered what distinguishes the successful people in life from the wannabes? As Aristotle suggests, it’s our good habits that lead to our accomplishments, not our individual actions. But which habits, exactly, will get us where w...
So my semester is coming to a close; I’ve just wrapped up my final paper and exam for my Intro. to Literary Analysis course. As somebody who prides myself on being good with words, loves reading and really any form of storytelling, an...
You could look into Fiverr for freelancers who might format the material for you, because it looks like you need more help than simply getting the name of a printing provider, who would not help you with how to do all this. It sounds like y...