How To Fall In Love With Writing Again2/25/2023 Maybe you haven’t written in a long time. Maybe you feel burnt out. Or maybe you like nothing you’ve written recently. The words aren’t wording. The passion isn’t there.
Here’s 10 tips to change all that.
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Five Most Memorable Literary Heroines2/25/2023 What do we remember most about a novel? What keeps us coming for Book 2, for all the sequels to come; what propels us to read an entire series in a week? For me, it’s emotional connection. What connects us to books are their characters- their personalities, their relationships, and their charisma.
In today’s article I’d like to explore some of the most memorable literary heroines. They run the gamut of personality, from irreverent to introverted, and I hope that you will love each of them as much as I do. Body Language Cheat Sheet2/25/2023 One of the most powerful ways of communication among humans is body language. Posture, position, conscious or unconscious movement all play an important role in transiting information. Even when reading about them, our brain is programmed to recognize gestures and associate them with certain messages. Writers often overlook this factor, but it can become an important tool to show how characters feel and what they think. Adding body language to your story will give an extra layer to your characters.
This is a list of fifteen body language cues and what they represent, plus how to describe them. Keep in mind that all of them are context-specific, and can work differently if not placed on an accurate scenario. Solarpunk: Or Why We Need Utopias2/24/2023 Among the science-fiction genre there are many punks: cyberpunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, etc. But the one that has captured my heart is SolarPunk.
I came across solarpunk while looking for a litmag to submit to. A short story called “Don Queerxote” in Hyphen-punk magazine showed me what hooping for a better future look like in a page. After reading the story about intergenerational knowledge and queer joy, I grew thirsty for more stories like it, unfortunately the litmag only had the one. And so it is rose-tinted February again. Streets smell of flowers despite it not being spring just yet. It’s a season to love, and that is undeniable. But love is not always written in cursive and dedicated to a partner. It is shared and guarded in friendships, families, and communities. It shifts and merges.
It is these other types of relationship journeys that make some of the most interesting character dynamics of literature and media in general. Everyone will like some better than others, but this is my personal ranking of 8 relationship dynamics in fiction which have nothing to do with romance. Top Tier Romance Tropes2/24/2023 Love is in the air this month, so it’s a great time to talk about love, romance and writing. With festivities of spring in one hand the excitement of loving and being loved in the other, what else one needs. Romance is one of the widely discussed genre in almost every literature be it English, Turkish or Urdu etc. romance fictions are interspersed with details of warm, passion and tenderness. There are numerous tropes of romance fiction but the ones that make their place in the top tier are...
Let’s cut to the chase. There are some lines that make the whole book worth reading- some lines that are reason in and of themselves to crack open the five hundred pager in the first place. Obviously, it’s rewarding to dive through the books by yourself and discover the joy of each beautiful piece of language. Reading just consolidated quotes seems almost illicit- like cheating. But let’s not let that hold us back, eh?
It's February! And this month's theme is love! Is the perfect time to learn about one of the best romancers of the romance languages, Alvaro Carrillo Alarcón.
French may be the first thing that comes to mind when people think of romance languages but Latin American Spanish-speakers give it a run for its money by writing the most passionate songs I’ve ever heard- and none other like Alvaro Carrillo Alarcón. 5 Unique Writing Related Careers2/22/2023 Turning passion into profit is something many desire to achieve. And luckily for those who love to write, there is a world of possibilities out there. It presents careers in a variety of fields for all types of personalities. If you can see yourself working with words to create, inspire, and impact, these are five diverse jobs that may suit you.
This article is for all the writers who don’t know what they want to do yet. There are many avenues, my friends, many options beyond self or traditional publishing for the writer in you.
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