by kingdompen | Jun 24, 2022 | Characters, Ethics, Theme
By Rachel Leitch If you’ve talked to me for any length of time, chances are you know that Fawkes by Nadine Brandes is one of my favorite books.In the writing community that I’m a part of, this has become such a widely known fact that if anyone posts a question about...
by kingdompen | Jun 20, 2022 | Encouragement, Fiction
By Rachel Leitch The past one hundred years have been a lot, everybody.In the span of one hundred years, the bestseller lists went from novels such as The Great Gatsby to The Girl on the Train and back again. Modern fiction has changed so rapidly, it’s almost...
by kingdompen | Jun 17, 2022 | Editing, Platform & Career
By Grace A. JohnsonWhenever someone mentions editing and editors, y’all know what I see?Dollar signs. Big, fat ones.Why?Because editing is expensive. Editors are expensive. Trust me, they can drain you slap dry—especially if you’re looking for line edits for a 200k...
by kingdompen | Jun 13, 2022 | Plot, Writing
By Grace A. Johnson Most of y’all know that I’m a diehard pantser. I can’t help but wing my stories, jumping headfirst into the first chapter without properly planning each chapter, each scene, each paragraph. A lot of us see pantsing as something only hobby writers...
by kingdompen | Jun 10, 2022 | Encouragement
By Grace A. JohnsonAllow me to introduce myself. My name is Grace A. Johnson, and I’m a homeschooled junior who first started writing misspelled words in a big notebook with a dull pencil at the age of nine. My first written story was a “mystery” concerning a girl’s...
