In many ways, books are like people, as each one carries an essence of life, inspiration, and influence of its own. You know what people...

Thematic significance is the moral, statement, or universal truth an author is conveying to their readers through their short stories,...

Theme is many times associated with the message of stories based on the terminology we're familiar with from writing essay and research...

Voice is one of the most distinctive features within fiction and from authors' different writing styles alone. There are certain literary...

Like artists who paint on canvases , writers can also create beautiful images and pictures by the use of their words. Aside from literary...

Literary devices are writing tools and techniques that can help writers intrigue their readers more into their short stories, books, or...

Interior and exterior are the two different types of settings within story writing. As I mentioned in my previous post of worldbuilding,...

As I mentioned in a previous post, settings help to "set the scene" and create a believable story world or environment within our stories...

Within fiction there are three types of story worlds that writers use in their novels or books.

Worldbuilding is the creation of a story, imaginary, or physical world in which your characters live and have their being.

Character arcs are important to show the internal, mental, emotional, and or spiritual development of characters in a story.

Book teasers are snippets of information that inform potential readers of what books' contents consist of before they open and read them.

In my previous blog posts, I discussed nine generic types of characters and five common story characters in fiction, but what actually...

Within novels, other fiction books, and short stories, there are many different types of characters that have distinctive roles,...

Characters...they are the most popular story element and very important when it comes to creating a short story, novel, or play. After...

When it comes to writing short stories, books, or novels, there are three main parts: the beginning , the middle , and the ending. ...

There are many building blocks to writing a complete story, but there are six essential elements in particular that really make a story...