Since the launch of CBS All Access — which is now called Paramount+ — in 2017, Paramount has debuted a massive spate of new “Star Trek” shows. This began with “Star Trek: Discovery,” followed quickly by “Star Trek: Short Treks,” the “Next Generation” throwback “Star Trek: Picard,” the two animated shows “Star Trek: Lower Decks” […]
Home » Becoming A Paperback Writer At GenreCon Listen Share this Article Got a horror book you’ve written that’s never seen the light of day or maybe a romance novel you’ve been working on for the last 10 years? Then check out GenreCon, a genre writers conference coming to DoubleTree Hilton in Huntington this weekend. […]
WRITING If you are considering writing a nonfiction book, there are multiple approaches you can take. What you ultimately decide will depend on many factors, including the purpose and subject of your book. The term nonfiction simply designates literature that deals with facts and reality. It’s such a broad term when it comes to describing […]
This is the sixth story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here . My apartment’s in an old wooden building, built who knows how many years ago, just one story, with two separate units, side by side, stuck between dilapidated houses no one […]
The dream is to create a book that will also be a tonic: not a course of study but a course of treatment. “I’m beginning a new book to have a companion,” wrote Hervé Guibert, “someone with whom I can talk, eat, sleep, at whose side I can dream and have nightmares, the only friend […]
Tanya Saracho, Craig Mazin and Pamela Ribon courtesy of Austin Film Festival The Austin Film Festival has announced the first 10 panels for the 2024 Writers Conference, and they include a conversation with Craig Mazin, the creator and showrunner of HBO’s post-apocalyptic zombie series The Last of Us . The Writers Conference takes place over […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Father’ is one of Raymond Carver’s shortest stories. It is more of a sketch or even, perhaps, a piece of ‘flash fiction’ than a ‘short story’ in the conventional sense; but then one of the things that great writers in the short-story form have always done is make […]
The dream is to create a book that will also be a tonic: not a course of study but a course of treatment. “I’m beginning a new book to have a companion,” wrote Hervé Guibert, “someone with whom I can talk, eat, sleep, at whose side I can dream and have nightmares, the only friend […]
If you ask any rom-com reader what they expect from the genre, I believe witty banter will make the top five. You know, the kind of quick and clever, rapid-fire dialogue that often ignites sparks of curiosity and amps up the connection between the love interests. ( Using Internal Dialogue to Reveal Character .) That’s […]
Trips to coffee shops to review the day’s notes were part of columnist Liane Faulder’s routine when she attended a writing workshop at a small American university. Article content A friend told me she had purchased a tap dancing board for her home. She had danced as a kid, and now that she was reducing […]
