I always thought a poem was something that came with a specific, repeated rhythm and a rhyming word every other line. At least, this was how “Poetry” was taught in every literature segment I’d ever experienced from kindergarten up through grade school. At that level, poetry was simple, but fun. I remember teachers going over…

I’d like to take another moment to reference Veronica Roth’s newsletter musings because she is very much someone I find worth listening to. In this instance, she was discussing her experiences with dystopian fiction (both in reading and writing it) and what seems to have become a consensus of the genre’s “worth” and / or…

Many of you out there might already know everything about this phrase and what it means within the realms of storytelling. However, it took a ridiculously long time for this phrase to cross my own path (I was an avid reader; already setting myself up to be a literature major in some way, shape, or…