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How I Found Happiness During Finals / Midterms Week
College. Between the old friends, the new friends, the clubs, the activities, and the rigorous coursework, I don’t have much time for anything else. The problem is “anything else” includes the bare necessities like food, hydration, and adequate sleep. With job applications to send out, papers due, tests out in the upcoming week, entire languages…
Read MoreWhat REALLY Happens When Writing Under Deadlines
Step 1: Write that deadline down somewhere you can see it. Your phone. Your wall. All over your arms. Step 2: Break your project into manageable chunks. Maybe just two pages a day. Maybe set a specific day aside just to write. Step 3: Inevitably procrastinate Step 4: Regret step 3 Step 5: Pretend that…
Read MoreTips Writers Can Take from Anime
I recently got back into anime after taking maybe a five-year hiatus from watching it. I watched shows ranging from light-and-fluffy OHSHC to Tokyo Ghoul to Black Butler to Hellsing Ultimate. (Previously to these shows, I’d only ever seen Miyazaki and maybe a few episodes of Naruto when they appeared as Saturday morning specials) After…
Read More10 Weird Things that Writers Google Search
Baby name sites, names meaning “(vague concept related to character development plot)” How long can somebody live without food/water? (for quests) Symptoms of the plague (for those period dramas) Rate of inflation (how much money in ye-olde-days was too much?) Stab wounds and can someone survive them if… Is “INSERT YOUR WIP TITLE” already the…
Read MoreThree Stages Every Author Goes Through
It sounds like a disease, doesn’t it? “Stages”. Yet, lurking in places that authors gather like abandoned bookstores and Tumblr, I’ve noticed three common struggles that absolutely devastate authors. And here they are. STAGE ONE: Self-doubt. Am I good enough? My writing is so childish. But that author was famous when they were only…
Read MoreWhat Your Music Choices Say About You as a Writer
This is closer to a writer version of an online personality quiz, but I decided to write a light-hearted post of what your music playlist means if you’re a writer. Don’t take it to heart. Or do. Whatever floats your musical boat. Let’s get… listening? Silence. Hello darkness my old friend… I’m either mysterious, or writing this…
Read MoreTen Things Authors Think About When Writing Horror
I love horror stories. I love watching horror movies, getting into the Halloween spirit, and learning about new and creepy mythology. I hate haunted houses, but no horror-loving fool can be perfect. That being said, here’s 10 things writers think about when writing horror stories. I’m going to be like Mary Shelley It was a…
Read MoreWhat It’s Like Inside an Author’s Brain
Inside an author’s brain, it’s a scary world. Full of dragons, unicorns, stardust, mysteries-unsolved, stories that are gathering dust, stories that should never see the light of day, and there’s cake and champagne for when they’re feeling happy. There’s an abundance of geeky references, some items from Amazon that never shipped, and a hole in…
Read MoreWhy Villains Make the Best Characters
Everybody has come across at least one book/movie/TV show where the villain, despite the hero’s best efforts, walks away as the most enigmatic character of the book. (Don’t even get me started on antiheroes). Here are my top ten reasons why villains make the best baddies ever. 1. Villains have the best dialogue. “Good…
Read More10 Things Bookworms and Gamers Have in Common
Guess what? When I was in 3rd grade, I called myself a book-gamer. It basically meant that I loved books and video games SOOO much that the current English vocabulary wasn’t enough to sustain it. I needed to add a word into the dictionary. Book-gamer – (n) a bookworm who games. Synonyms – Me Antonyms…
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