Image: a woman looking like a fairy-tale princess, wearing an ornately-decorated white satin dress and with a copious head of curly white hair, reclines on a patch of flowers in a field.
If you approach a book with a writer’s eye, even the most pleasurable, light reading can teach you something that ...
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Shonda Rhimes’s Netflix series is a master class in amping up stakes and keeping viewers invested in the characters’ outcomes ...
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Authors should consider using AI for historical research—not as a replacement for primary sources, but as just another useful tool ...
Amid stacks of century-old photos in a display box can be seen one of a bearded man in a military uniform and one of a besuited teenage boy in a domestic living room.
Writers of both genres have to make decisions that somehow mold real people and events into a story with a ...
/ Guest Post, Improve Your Writing