Sing, Sweet: The Anthology Has a Title!
It’s official! The anthology my story Sing, Sweet Nightingale will be published in next spring will be titled Transcendent: Tales of the Paranormal! How exciting! I can’t wait until I […]
Point of View: Third Person Omniscient
Three words perfectly describe the essence of this perspective: You. Are. God. As such, you know everything about everyone. To be specific, third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which […]
Point of View: Third Person Limited Omniscient
Third Person Limited Omniscient (TPLO): a narrative mode in which the reader experiences the story through the senses and thoughts of just one character. Even without doing the research to […]
Point of View: Third Person Objective
It’s hard to know how often this perspective is really used because it’s somewhat overlooked. I have had the five perspective classifications in my head for so long that I […]
Point of View: Second Person
Wikipedia says: The second-person narrative is a narrative mode in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of […]
Point of View: First Person
Although I have no statistics to back up my claim, I would rate first person as one of the two most popular narrative styles. Especially in contemporary fiction. Why is […]
Movies: The Princess Bride
Princess Bride is one of my all-time favorite movies. I can not even begin to guess how many times I watched this growing up, but it’s an embarrassingly high number. […]
Style: Understated is Underrated
“I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me – dye my hair blonder, pluck […]
Research: Would People Think You Are Crazy?
Sometimes, especially while researching details for a book, I start to wonder what people would think of me if all they had was my search history and bookmarks from Firefox. […]
Movies and TV: Once Upon a Time…
I have always been a sucker for fantasy and fairy tales and Disney movies. So when I saw that ABC is coming out with a show called Once Upon a […]