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...

One of the great pleasures of writing a book series is the different ways that writers can do them.

Editing is one of the least favorite parts of the book creation process for writers because it takes focus, critical thinking,...

From written manuscript to a published book, the process of publishing requires a lot of different steps through the process that can...

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...

When it comes to writers and authors selling books, there is a big difference between book sales from online retailers and book sales in...

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.

Writing a standalone novel is one thing, but completing a whole book series is another and much more challenging. On the flip side,...

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

Character development is the internal and external transformation characters go through during and after the course of the story.

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

Writing...it's a creative art and adventurous pursuit, but it also can be challenging, and especially if you're someone who's just...

We humans are remarkable creations of GOD. Each of us are like separate worlds that were framed within our mothers before we were born,...

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