Posts by Sophia Whitte

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! For the most of us who are single and not ready to mingle, here’s a list of romantic tropes often found in sappy movies/TV shows/songs/and books! Enjoy you fellow, grumbling writers, you! The cute meet. Boy meets girl in romantic cliché way that somehow ends up being cute. Think of losing…

Geekiness had a bad rap in the eighties. Look to movies like “The Breakfast Club” or “Weird Science” and you’ll know what I mean. Being geeky/nerdy meant having a pocket protector and being shoved into lockers. Well, that trend is changing. Now, being geeky means following in the footsteps of Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social…

Now, I know I did a similar list to this a while back about teenager clichés to avoid. But, seeing as I’m STILL a teenager, I thought I’d bring up a couple tropes that I, and many other authors, use when writing about teens. (Warning, comedy ahead.) HORMONES, HORMONES, HORMONES! “I was walking in the…

Hey writing fellows! I know that, after reading tons of fantasy stories and the comics and the movies and the fanfictions (wait, was that last part just me?) we all believe we have an idea of what fantasy stories look like. But it’s easy for our subconscious to insert one or two (or twenty) bad…

Here are some winter writing prompts, ten of them to be exact, for any writers who feel like they need some inspiration or just a way to get out of that writing funk. You wake up married to your worst enemy. You are trapped in an eternal winter, but then you discover you are the…

Writers always tend to be crunched for time, whether it be looming deadlines or a very small writing window between lunch and picking up the dog from the kennel. Writing is hard enough, but should you take that extra step and block out a set time to read? And when you do choose to read,…

Every writer, painter, singer, would-be fitness model, hopeful student, aspiring entrepreneur, and general human aims to make this year better than the last. Whether it be finding love at your own pace, publishing a novel, or finally going to the gym, here are some tips and tricks for maintaining your New Year’s Resolution past January…

I was a quiet child who grew up reading every book I could find in the library, speaking more to my stuffed animals than I did to other children. I found the playground noisy, preferring to play pretend with my best friend instead of swinging from the jungle gym or throwing rocks at each other…

I know. When you’ve read and reread and rewritten and copied and pasted and rewritten your own work a hundred thousand times, it kills you a little bit on the inside to edit it yet again. I know it feels as though you’ve gotten everything right on the first try and nothing more can be…

To never experience heartbreak, take your heart from your chest of skin and bone and place it instead into a chest of wood. Take a lock and wrap it three times around the wooden chest, careful not to let any sunlight through the splintered boards. Wrap a cloth around the chest to block out any…