What’s In A Name?: Famous Authors Who Wrote/Write Under Pen Names
It’s safe to assume that we’re all familiar with the concept of the pen name. The pen name…
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Love Wins: LGBTQA in Literature
The recent Pride Day celebration for the LGBTQA+ community and their supporters all around the world has made…
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Creativity from Simplicity
Few people, I think, actually want to complicate things. Simplicity is key, or so the saying goes (along…
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Why Fairy Tales are Appealing (and the Creative Things We Can Learn from Them)
Fairy tales these days are hastily associated with one of the biggest names in the entertainment industry: Disney.…
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Future Imperfect: The Creative, Profound Ways Cyberpunk Deals With Crime and Humanity
Cyberpunk is one of the many subgenres of science fiction, and primarily deals with dark, futuristic locales, cyborgs,…
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Strange Love: Unhappy Endings in Literature
Most people take the fourteenth of February – Valentine’s Day – as an opportunity for a person to…
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Myth Madness: Books On Myths and Legends That You Should Experience
Myths and legends make up a good chunk of any nation’s cultural foundation. We’ve got the Norse myths,…
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Artificial Nature: On Jungles, Concrete, and the Modern Days in Literature
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to read Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent. Written and published just as…
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Of Epic Proportions: The Problem of Lengthy Fantasy
One of the more attractive umbrellas in literature is speculative fiction, and it’s easy to see why. If…
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Real Worlds: World-building
Part of what makes a lot of stories compelling is the world in which the characters live and…
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