I have been considering returning to several books I enjoyed when I was very young. Not a child but not even a teenager. I am almost...

One of the more common kinds of villain in today’s literature compared to literature of days past, at least in fantasy and science...

I have heard it said, and generally agree, we cannot write what we do not know. Sometimes when we read novels the errors stand out to...

From time to time, I play Dungeons and Dragons. For people who are not familiar with the idea of a table top role-playing game, it is a...

In our exploration of villains, perhaps one of the less used versions in modern novels is the flat out, evildoer. This villain is bad....

Purple prose: “Overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant style...

What does the word call to mind? Perhaps you envision a person placing money in a bank, or purchasing stocks. Maybe you picture people in...

Villains. Sometimes they are friends turned against us, fallen heroes, antiheroines, the side of right in their own mind, or just plain...

Why do we read? I have said here that we read to learn, to experience new places, to explore new worlds and meet extraordinary people we...

Look inside yourself. What don’t you like? Don’t berate yourself, but find something. Think about how you work to overcome this, work...

It has been said you are what you eat. People take this to mean it has to do with food. Perhaps they should. The origin is summarized...

Someday I am going to … What? What is your someday? Climb a specific mountain? See a specific world wonder? Say something you have always...

Enter the villain. The antagonist. The counter to the heroes and heroines. The bad one. Something becomes relatable and visceral when we...

Today is all about nonfiction, because today is about trustworthiness. Do you trust what you read? Should you? There are many good and...

For me, in many ways, person versus society is the scariest of the conflicts. Gods you are pretty much stuck, if they want to fight you...

I was considering today the endings of things. I was considering it for a five-book series I just completed, but I was not considering it...

If you were guaranteed that trying one more time would change the outcome, would you do it? Would you put up with 100 rejections to...

As we continue down the road of conflicts we come next to person versus high powers. These can show up in many forms and are very...

If you are a reader, sometimes it might feel like you are the only one. This question might come to mind when you talk to family, friends...

To borrow an analogy from exercise, life is not a sprint. Life is not a marathon. Like is more than even an ultramarathon. It is a run...