Writers Blog

Congratulations, you’ve written your book! Now it’s time to take a step back from the story and write about yourself. Yes, that’s right. Every book, be it fiction or non-fiction, usually includes an author bio. And if you have a website, a social media account, or if you’re sending out a book press release,...

Poetry drips with rhyme, rhythm, meaning, and intensity. It inspires, resonates, emboldens, and heightens our experience with that prose. So, just as the name implies, a poetic device adds these same elements to writing using shapes, sounds, words, phrases, and rhyme to enhance or convey meaning. If...

Flat characters that change little throughout a story are usually dull and uninteresting, no matter how exciting the plot itself might be. A character should have intent, a purpose or quest, or at the very least respond to the events around them in a way that might make them believable, frustrating or...

“You can’t prove there are no aliens on Jupiter, so I conclude there are.” Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the appeal to ignorance fallacy, one of the many logical fallacies that don’t hold firm under careful inspection. Logical fallacies are arguments that rely on faulty logic, undermining...

Research questions are the foundation of any academic study. They guide the research process and help researchers focus their efforts. A well-crafted research question can make all the difference in the success of a research project. In this article, we’ll look at what makes a strong research question...