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 […]
Writing: Point of View
Each story has a voice, a style of telling all its own that brings out the emotional and physical struggle the characters face. Sometimes, however, finding that voice isn’t easy. […]
Writing: Why Age Shouldn’t Matter
I found a notebook recently while going through my desk. In it are blogs I had written and planned on posting but never did… probably because I’d misplaced the notebook. […]
Update: So long, Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs died today at the age of 56. I’ve heard him called the Thomas Edison of our age and I can’t say that they’re that far off. He was […]
Random: Umm… What?
WTH? Am I the only one who didn’t know that they’ve turned ice cream into gum? And am I the only one slightly weirded out by this? Apparently they also […]
Writing: Why You Need a Routine
As a caveat to this article, I have to point out that this is something I am struggling with. The thing is, because I struggle with it, I see very […]