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Literary Inspirations: E.L. James

We all remember a time when Twilight was a really big thing. When teen girls and moms would gush over who Bella would choose; either the creepy stalkerish vampire, Edward, or the equally creepy werewolf, who apparently had imprinted on her daughter before she was...

Literary Inspirations: J.K. Rowling

I remembered picking up and reading the now famous Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in middle school. I remembered watching the movie, and how enchanted I was seeing all of that. I remembered reading through the other books and watching the other movies with...

Philosophical Ponderings: Existentialism

There are times when our characters are strong enough to drive the plot on their own, regardless of any conflicts. There are times when it seems that our fictional universes revolve around our character. At the same time, our characters have some knowledge of this....

Writing Social Horror

With the increasing interest in movies such as Get Out, The Purge, and Us, many people are turning to the ailing conditions of our society for horrific inspirations. From religious decadences to psychopathic cults, social horrors have had a prominent place in literature for centuries....

Killers of Creativity Every Writer Should Watch Out For - Part 3

 A negative mindset Optimism breaks the barriers for creativity to set in. If you have a negative mindset, it will destroy creativity. To develop new styles and ideas in your writing, you need to have a positive perspective so that you can allow yourself to venture...

Killers of Creativity Every Writer Should Watch Out For - Part 2

Pride To be good at what you do you have to be open to learning new things and ways of writing. The worst aspect of pride is that it confines you to only what you know yet you could learn so much more from other writers’...

Killers of Creativity Every Writer Should Watch Out For - Part 1

When I first started writing, it was a dream come true. I was excited to finish my first piece and any encouraging feedback I got, I held on to it so hard that I can remember some of those early responses. Along the way, my...

Quiet Place

There are times as a writer when you have so many ideas running through your head that you feel like you’re going to explode. Then there are times when you stare at a blank computer screen, begging the universe for inspiration. All writers have experienced...

Do What Works for You

Okay, it is confession time. I have never completed a creative writing course in my life! As some of you may know, I have always loved literature and spent most of my childhood in libraries with my nose in a book and writing silly little...

From Pen to Store: Tips for an Effective Writing Process

Writing your first book becomes a very intimidating process, especially for the self-published author, because you will soon find that it is MUCH more than simply putting ideas on paper. Let me break it down for you: You have an idea (usually a partial idea)...