Have you ever seen those videos on YouTube where an artist takes multiple clips from a specific movie and rearranges them to create trailers for it across different genres? While most fiction pieces tend to fit tightly within one particular genre, a good story always has several other elements lying just beneath the surface, and…
There’s a certain kind of power that comes with being a creative. It’s not power in a physical sense of the word, but one might almost say it’s like magic. Painters, for example, take a bunch of colorful paste and transform it into a recognizable scene; writers create entire worlds just through words on a…
Yesterday I was watching Star Trek, and it hit me: writers really are the unsung heroes of life. Now, as a writer myself, I’m really not trying to blow my own horn here. There are thousands of writers throughout history that have written far more meaningful stories and even single sentences than I have. No—what…
A book with a message that was successfully integrated into the story–and not mercilessly hammered home, like most books with messages. A fun adventure that has me looking forward to the sequel!
You might have heard of them before, you might not have. Just what are the Seven Basic Plots?