by Kaelyn Barron
You feel your knees start to shake as you approach the podium. Your mouth is suddenly dry and you struggle to remember your opening lines, which you spent hours perfecting the night before. You look out at the crowd of indistinguishable faces and when you finally try...
by Kaelyn Barron
A memorable protagonist is the key to any great narrative. If your readers don’t feel invested in your main character, it’s unlikely they’ll feel invested in the rest of your story. But take care not to confuse “protagonist” with “hero”—the best protagonists are just...
by Kaelyn Barron
If you’re not using em dashes in your writing, you’re missing out on a very versatile punctuation that can replace commas, parentheses, or colons—not to mention they look pretty cool, too. Longer than an en dash and three times longer than a hyphen, the em dash (—) is...
by Kaelyn Barron |
Do you ever find yourself suddenly struck by a bolt of inspiration while sipping your morning coffee, taking the subway to work, or watching your children play in the backyard? You see or feel something that you’d love to put into words, but when you reach for a...
by Kaelyn Barron
For a long time in literature, it seemed that readers had to dig deep to find female characters who weren’t just a damsel in distress or a cackling witch. But women have been carrying stories since long before they had the right to vote, and they continue that work...
