What is a friend? For most people, the answer to this question will be something along the following lines: it is a person who is ready to reassure you when you feel down, who supports you in all your undertakings, always has a kind word for you, provides a shoulder… Read More →
Love is one of the strongest human emotions, and it is only natural that it often becomes a centerpiece for a work of fiction. And it is just as natural for loving couples to become the image that remains in people’s memory long after they have forgotten most of the… Read More →
British author of children’s books, Allan Ahlberg, has declined the inaugural Booktrust Best Books Lifetime Achievement Award on a pretext that it is sponsored by Amazon. He states that his dislike of Amazon is based on ‘ethical grounds’: because of numerous reports of Amazon’s tax evasion in the UK Ahlberg… Read More →
So you want to be a writer. It is your dream job, you feel that it is your destined vocation, you are in love with words and the process of putting them together fascinates you like no other thing. But before you get to achieving this dream, read this article… Read More →
According to some recent surveys and researches, the majority of readers of the so-called ‘young adult’ fiction are, in fact, quite grown-up people who can hardly be placed into this category. But what it means is an entirely different question. Some people are quick to accuse the modern society of… Read More →
A lot of moms and dads wonder whether something they have done (or maybe they haven’t) was the cause of the kid’s autism. While in some cases the autism cause of a child can be easily defined, the majority of parents will never get the right answer for the question… Read More →
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion that is a great tool to influence someone. Persuasion can influence a person in many ways; if a person is very talented in persuasion he/she can play a vital role in influencing ano person’s behavior, their beliefs, attitude, intentions, & motivations. Simply put, this art can be… Read More →
Complaining about the names authors give to their characters may seem to be a little silly – after all, they are the authors, it’s their decision, it is probably based on something and has some purpose – but it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that lots and lots of… Read More →
Very often journalistic and writing careers are tightly intertwined – after all, both employ roughly the same set of skills and competencies. Still, the differences are striking, and the ways in which these competencies are employed vary considerably. Which doesn’t, of course, mean that a person cannot be a first-rate… Read More →
For as long as narration in any form existed, horror stories of this or that kind have been extremely popular. They are not limited to literature: people told each other scary stories beside campfires long before there was such thing as literature and, for that matter, writing. And the situation… Read More →
