by kingdompen | Jun 3, 2022 | Contests & Opportunities, Short Stories
The chandelier blazes like a summer sun. The clink of a hundred glasses shatters the room and a hundred different voices trample over the shards. A song weaves through the background, every so often slicing through the conversation.It’s too much....
by kingdompen | Jun 1, 2022 | Contests & Opportunities
One of the skills of a talented writer is to look at common daily occurrences and find depth and meaning behind them. To find a hidden beauty, understanding, and most importantly... a story. Whether we notice or not, our life experiences carry over into our...
by kingdompen | May 28, 2022 | Contests & Opportunities, KP Updates
We are now approaching the final months of the Library of Lost Memories Article Contest, so I'd say now is a pretty good time to throw up the leaderboard! The writers on this leaderboard are a small but mighty group whose faces you'll probably...
by kingdompen | May 20, 2022 | Book Recommendations, Characters, Fiction, Plot, Romance
By Grace A. Johnson I was probably eight years old when I picked up my first Austen novel...believe it or not, I didn’t even make it past the first page of Sense and Sensibility before it was returned to the library. Six or so years later, I waded through Persuasion...
by kingdompen | May 13, 2022 | Plot, Style
By R.M. Archer Five years ago, I balked at the idea of reading classic literature. Well, except Lord of the Rings or Narnia, since those were their own category and didn’t count as “classics”; they weren’t boring enough. And Tom Sawyer, because that one was fun. And...
