by Yen Cabag
Tension is one reason readers keep turning pages, even into the wee hours of the night. You know the feeling: I need to find out what happens. Just one more page… Before you know it, the sky is turning red with the sun peeking out from the horizon, and you’re still...
by Yen Cabag
Reading poems can be fun, thought-provoking, and relaxing. The melody and rhythm of the words, the rhymes at the end of the lines, and the beauty of the words and syllables evoke emotion like no other piece of writing can. But have you ever read a poem that, at...
by Yen Cabag
The best characters feel so three-dimensional that we think of them almost as real people. This happens when writers make the effort to formulate clear backstories for the characters: these characters don’t fall onto the page as blank puppets; they’ve experienced...
by Yen Cabag
Is it just my imagination, or are most bookstores swamped full of women’s faces on books? These covers tend to show female faces turned away from the camera, or maybe even completely out of sight. But even at first glance, you can guess that the theme is targeted...
by Yen Cabag
Monsters aren’t just creatures that kids are afraid of finding under their bed at night; in literature, they play a crucial role in exploring the nature of good and evil. Did you know that there’s a whole genre in literature called monster literature? Monster...
