As you guys know, I'm a writer. I write all the posts for this blog, and I just finished my fourth book. Do I know when any of my books will be coming out? No, because editing, self-publishing, and copyrighting takes forever. However, since I only have one more book to go before the series... Continue Reading →
Blog: Thoughts on Female Warriors and Rulers in the Fantasy Genre
As I've been doing this blog and quickly writing my own books, I've been paying attention to how other people portray their characters in media. In particular, I've been paying attention to how authors and writers portray their female characters in media, which more often than not nowadays is not in a very postive light.... Continue Reading →
Blog: Female Authors Aren’t Being “Infantilized” by the Publishing Industry. They’re Doing it to Themselves.
Recently, I ran across a channel on YouTube run by a woman named Elizabeth Wheatley and for those of you who haven't watched any of her videos, she's a fantasy/romance author who penned the Dandreth's Assassin series and generally makes videos promoting her book and talking about the genre she's in. At first, I really... Continue Reading →
Blog: New Testament Summarized
A few months ago, I posted a blog where I summarized the Old Testament and though you guys seemed to like that post, I never did a follow up. Realizing this, here's the sequel to that post. (Disclaimer: This is satire. This is in no way, shape, or form supposed to be used to replace... Continue Reading →
Blog: Common Book Tropes I Can’t Stand
Yesterday, I wrote a post about how modern books are becoming incredibly tropey and how annoying those tropes have become. After writing that post, I started thinking about the tropes that I hate and compiled this list. While some of these are tropes that I hate in general, I would just like to say that... Continue Reading →
Blog: Why Are YA Novels So Tropey?
I was at lunch the other day with my cousin at a restaurant when our conversation switched from school to books, particularly young adult novels. While I haven't read a lot of young adult novels since I was 14, my cousin has and it's something that I have been thinking about ever since. Why are... Continue Reading →
Blog: If Bible Characters Could Text
When one of my friends left for college out of state earlier in the year, I made it my mission to report to her what the sermons at youth group and Sunday church service were about as often as possible. Usually it consists of what the sermon was about before transitioning into me spilling the... Continue Reading →
Blog: Best Elf in The Silmarillion; A Spotlight on Maglor.
Yes, I'm going to be catching a lot of flack from people in comments yelling at me that actually Finrod was the best elf or Beleg was or blah-blah-blah and they'll die on that hill. But hear me out. Of all the characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, the elf prince Maglor is one of... Continue Reading →
Blog: You’re a Book Addict if You do These Things…
Time to out myself. I am a book addict and as a book addict from a family of book addicts, I consider myself an expert on the warning signs of being addicted to literature. So like the title said, here are the signs that you may be one too. #1: You spend half/all of your... Continue Reading →
Blog: How to Write a Morally Complex Protagonist. Today’s Example: Feanor.
Feanor from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion is one of those characters where you either hate him or you love him to bits and will die on that hill. Reddit forums galore have been created centering around him, ranging from having well-thought-out arguments in the form of memes and comments defending/condemning his actions to having a... Continue Reading →
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