By: Case Bright When struck by inspiration, every writer must decide the shape they want their idea to take. Many writers struggle to determine the distance they want their story to figuratively travel on the page. Is the concept able to fit within the 1,500 to 7,500 word confines of the average short story without being suffocated? Can it fill the near 100,000 word breadth of the average novel while keeping the reader interested throughout? These questions are important to c

By: Trinity Cogan From my observations, romance novels over the last few years have become quite popular, popular in a way they hadn’t been in the past. Gone is the sweet, cheesy romance with a kiss here and there. Now you see a wide variety of subgenres within romance, (sports romances, dark romance, etc.) some that divide people on the internet every day over their tropes and concepts. For example, the novel Icebreaker by Hannah Grace, a spicy sports romance, was huge a fe

By: Sydney Foster There are two kinds of readers: the ones who keep their books in pristine, untouched condition…and the ones who immediately grab a pen. If you’ve ever felt even a tiny bit guilty about underlining a sentence or scribbling in the margins, this is your official permission slip. Writing in your books isn’t ruining them. It’s using them. It means highlighting lines you love, circling words you don’t understand, writing “WHAT??” in the margins when a character ma