A Call to Love

Shalom. Salaam. Peace. In a world where it seems we open the news and everyday see it. Hate, death, destruction. Remember this. That we treasure the time to love instead of the time to hate that hate only brings Anger, chaos, calamity. But love is: Healing. Love is: Fixing. Love is: Saving. And love is anything…

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On Writing Villains

I remember my first villains. I made them extremely evil. In my stories, written fondly at age eleven, they had fangs and darkness in their eyes. Their souls were full of mud, and they made the Grinch look like a sweetheart. Originally posted by tigerlilykisses As I grew older, wrote more stories, I realized that…

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Killing Your (Darling) Characters

So, when it comes to killing off characters, nobody knows the struggle better than a writer. (Notice I said characters, not people. Please ensure that I mean FICTIONAL people of IMAGINARY worlds. Murder is a big no-no IRL!) Writers search up these weird things all the time: how people act at funerals, what happens to…

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