by Jacob Mohr |
We’ve said it before—the soul of any story is conflict. Your hero has a dream, but something’s standing in her way. Maybe it’s a mountain. Maybe it’s a debt. Maybe it’s self-doubt or self-loathing or just plain old fear of the unknown. But no matter the source, the...
by Jason Brick
For many, many, MANY writers, the process of blogging begins like this: Step One: Realize you promised yourself you’d write a blog post today. Step Two: Sit down to write the blog post. Step Three: Stare at an empty screen and struggle to come up with an idea to write...
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 |
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 Jason Brick |
I get it. The idea of freelancing for your entire living is intimidating. Like one of my favorite mentors says, the best part of freelancing is you’re responsible for every part of your financial success. The worst part is you’re responsible for every part of your...
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...
