So Your Character is From Algeria … Featuring Ahmina Dahman + Kawther @ The Villain Library

It’s time for this month’s So Your Character is From Another Country! This is a monthly or bimonthly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash …

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Beautiful People #19: Elasa

It’s time for this month’s Beautiful People! Yay! This is a link-up hosted by Paperfury and Further Up and Further In where you answer questions about your characters. I participated in Beautiful People #1, #2, #3 and the villain special last year. And I’ve done Beautiful People Author Edition, Beautiful People Valentine Edition, Beautiful People #7, Beautiful People Sibling Edition, Beautiful People #9, Beautiful People: Parental Edition, Beautiful People #11, Beautiful People: Friendship Edition, Beautiful …

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Writerly Bundle #23: Silvan, Light of Nibel, & Golden Snail

Welcome to this week’s Writerly Bundle! A post where I hope to inspire you with three of the world’s greatest things: music, words, and tea. After listening to the soundtrack, I knew I had to theme one of these posts after this enchanting, but extremely difficult game Ori and the Blind Forest. The Word: sylvan …

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So Your Character is From Liberia … Featuring Lucy Buller @ Rybrynn’s Random Scribblings

It’s time for this month’s So Your Character is From Another Country! This is a monthly or bimonthly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash …

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Writerly Bundle #22: Autoschediasm, The Cheshire Cat, & the Jabberwocky

Welcome to this week’s Writerly Bundle! A post where I hope to inspire you with three of the world’s greatest things: music, words, and tea. The tea is called the Jabberwocky thus this post must be Alice in Wonderland themed. Nuff said.   The Word: autoschediasm noun 1.) something that is improvised or extemporized. Example Sentence: …

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Keeping Morality in Fiction: Are you sacrificing your role models for character conflict?

Conflict is an essential part of story. No good story doesn’t have conflict. It is what creates intrigue and keeps a consumer flipping pages or clicking the next episode to find out what happens. Conflict among characters definitely motivates a reader/viewer to keep watching when there’s a broken relationship or a turn in a character’s …

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A Book Review of Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Buy from Amazon! A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful …

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