by Jacob Mohr
Books are magical things, aren’t they? Novels don’t have the visual components of television or film to tell their stories, but reading a well-written book can be just as immersive an experience, transporting you away from your daily life in the turn of a page. Think...
by Jacob Mohr
When I was much younger, in one of my first English classes, my teacher taught a lesson on different narrative perspectives in fiction. “First person,” I remember her instructing us, “uses the ‘I’ perspective—how you would talk about yourself. ‘I went to the store. I...
by Jacob Mohr |
Out of all the punctuation marks used in the English language, the colon is by far the most forward-thinking. More conservative marks are concerned only with the ideas that came before them, but the colon is all about the future. It introduces. It announces. It...
by Jacob Mohr
Where does the time go? Whether you’re a freelance professional juggling dozens of projects, a hardworking author trying to find time to write the Great American Novel, or just somebody with a busy schedule in a busy world, this question is probably on your mind a...
by Jacob Mohr
Like it or not, the moniker “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” is probably here to stay. Since its debut in Nathan Rabin’s 2007 review of the movie Elizabethtown, the term has taken pop culture by storm, capturing the imaginations—and the ire—of readers, critics, and culture...
