True Stories Behind Fairytales

Growing up, children love listening to fairytales or watching the many film adaptations of said tales. However, let’s face it. The majority of these stories have no semblance to reality. In many cases, these famous legends have been passed down for centuries as cautionary tales against being selfish, cruel, or any other vice. However, many …

Scaring a Reader: Techniques to Create Terrifying Horror Stories

For over a century, authors such as Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe have been scaring people with truly bone-chilling horror fiction. If you, like me, love to both watch and read horror (whether historical or modern), you will be aware that certain tropes are used a lot in this particular genre (like the absurd …

Top 9 of My Favorite Movie Scores For Writing

When I’m writing, I tend to listen to a lot of movie scores. Not only is it beautiful, classical music, but it helps with the feelings I wish to convey in any given scene. There are a lot of amazing movie scores out there, and one of my favorite channels on Pandora is merely called …

The Dangerous Method of Passive Protagonists

There are many types of characters in fiction—villain, mentor, etc.—and each is important to any story. But none is more important than that of the protagonist.  A Protagonist, after all, is the person which the conflict and action focuses around (not to be confused with the narrator, as The Great Gatsby has proven). They are …