For the past couple of weeks, I pretended to be something I’m not. It was an informed choice–part experiment, part hopeful optimism, all frustration with social media. Writers are expected to be a lot of …
Daisy was a retired puzzlemaker at the beginning of this comic series, The Red Mother (2020), by writer Jeremy Haun and artist Danny Luckert. The story opened with Daisy enjoying a well-earned happy relationship and …
I watched Gawain and the Green Knight over the weekend and wow there’s a lot to unpack. The movie was excellent (in my possibly unpopular opinion), though it definitely diverged from the original story and …
When I first heard the name “The Black Dahlia”, it was in reference to the 2006 film. Based on critiques I heard from other students, I inferred only that it was an uncomfortably explicit movie …
Autumn sunshine veiled by grey clouds lit the lake at the heart of the forest. It was a secret place, spoken of in stories about knights and kings and magical swords, but those days were …
In the beginning, there was soil, sky, and sea. It was a nice start; the views were lovely and the weather was, generally speaking, fair. But the giants who created the soil, sky, and sea …
Don’t look…Mother is watching. Effective horror feeds your existential fears and leaves you looking over your shoulder when you’re alone. The Red Mother (2020) brings this kind of horror. Written by Jeremy Haun and illustrated …
Summary: Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose, he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic, …
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Summary: A very young woman’s first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate…An estate haunted by …
There are plenty of tips out there to improve your writing, but these 4 changes have been vital to my growth as a writer. They’ve made my writing stronger and even helped prevent writer’s block …