by Kaelyn Barron
Are you looking for a creative way to tie up loose ends or show your readers what happens to your characters after their happily ever after? You might consider writing an epilogue. Not all books have them, but when used appropriately, then can add another element to...
by Kaelyn Barron
Have you ever finished reading a novel and felt there were some pieces missing, or that you didn’t get the closure you were expecting? It could be that the final chapter didn’t do a very good job of tying things up. Or, perhaps an epilogue could have been...
by Kaelyn Barron |
Pick up a book and you’ll likely have to flip through any number of pages to make it to the “real” start—there could be a dedication, a preface, a prologue, a foreword, and even a whole page dedicated to critical acclaim for the book. While each of...
by Kaelyn Barron
Appearances don’t matter when you’re a writer, right? The only beauty readers care about is the beauty of your words. Well, not exactly. Despite the old adage, readers really do judge books by their covers, and as much as you might like to pretend...
by Yen Cabag |
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, published in 1954, won the Nobel Prize for its story about a group of young boys whose plane crashes and leaves them stranded on a remote island without any adult supervision. This coming-of-age story instantly became the center of...