by Josiah DeGraaf | Jan 30, 2017 | Articles, Theme
First chapters are hard to pull off. You need to introduce your protagonist, your story’s setting, and the beginning of your plot in an engaging way that entices people to keep reading. This last point gets hammered on again and again by editors and agents, which can...
by Brandon Miller | Jan 27, 2017 | Articles, Plot
It’s January, the month of new beginnings. You’ve made your New Year’s resolutions, and maybe, just maybe, one of them involves writing. Maybe you resolved to write a novel. An entire novel. And maybe this time you’re actually going to do it. So you sit down in front...
by Daeus | Jan 25, 2017 | Poetry
Sublime In the softest swaying of a tree Lurks a certain quiet mystery Up above the sky in outer space Of this mystery we find a trace Hiding then in shadows of the dawn By a secret order goes the fawn Onward go all things in ordered pace Ruling of a kingdom,...
by Sierra | Jan 23, 2017 | Articles, Style
There are no set rules for an opening line of a novel. Nearly anything goes—be it description, dialogue, or a statement of philosophical truth. But that flexibility does not apply to the first page of your novel. All good novels contain several essential...
by Kate Flournoy | Jan 18, 2017 | Poetry
In losing lies the finding. In sacrifice the gain. Freedom is a binding rope, And liberty a chain. Loving is releasing. Releasing is relief. Devotion is a letting go, And knowledge is belief. Hatred is unworthiness. Unworthiness a void. Grace is for the graceless one,...
