Whether through paintings, novels and books, news and journalism, or music, different types of creative stories can be powerful works of art and have emotional impact on the seer, reader, or listener. Although writers use a pen, pencil, or computer instead of a paintbrush, writing can be similar to painting a portrait for readers to imagine and behold with their eyes when writers create imagery in their short stories and books. One episode from the 1960s western Bonanza cal

When we think about the writing process, it's quite similar to an assembly factory or the water cycle many of us learned in science class...

When we think about tropes, the first two genres that come to mind are oftentimes fantasy or romance. However, Christian fiction also has...

Plotting and outlining together are the third stage of writing. These two forms of writing are sometimes used interchangeably; but...

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

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

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.