The world of anime, games, cartoons, and superheroes is extremely fascinating, and imitating the characters of this world is done by hosting theme parties or cosplay events. Cosplay is an event that is hosted in many western countries, and Japan. Cosplay is also known as role-playing, is an event during which artists carry specific costumes […]
Rosewood is set at the end of the Civil War and is about a plantation in Tennessee. Read how the plantation goes through changes over the years in accordance with its many different owners’ wishes, it is said to be haunted but then at first no one really knows this for sure. In the story, […]
Am I the only one to notice that Randy Wayne White’s recurring character, Dr. Marion Ford, bears a slight resemblance to the classic Florida boat bum character, Travis McGee, created by John D. MacDonald and played out over the course of 21 novels? Or maybe it’s such an obvious observation that no one else believed […]
Journey To The West is one of the four classical Chinese novels. Dating back to the Ming Dynasty, the novel is based upon the travels of the monk Xuanzang whose journey through China took him along what we now know as the Silk Road, and beyond. In all he travelled for some 17 years, through […]
In the late evening hours, I was seated at the firm surface of my bed. I can’t go back to sleep; in louver, I waited until the ultimate sunlit peeped through the slats. That moment I was in so much anguish that made me starry-eyed. In a flick, my thoughts desired to see the distance […]
Creating believable compelling characters–ones that come to life on the page and fully engage the reader–is key in writing fiction. After you first introduce a character, you want the reader to crave more, and then you must deliver more throughout the story. Readers want to connect with the characters, so it is important to create […]
INTRODUCTION: It requires skill, practice, and patience to develop realistic characters. It is equally difficult or almost impossible to craft a story without a living being, even if it be a personified animal, as occurs in Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” DEFINITION: “Stories often arise out of a deep consideration of how character is formed […]