Imagine that the battle for your soul’s eternal resting place was decided in a courtroom. You are on trial for every little thing, good or bad, that you’ve ever done in your life. Joe has always heard this voice. This voice helped him with his schoolwork and when bullied. This voice helped him with his…
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Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Inspirational, New Words Learned, Words
Broken Chains – a Review
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• •Broken Chains takes place in Azerbaijan, Kenya, and Canada. It is a story of escape from abuse, psychological and physical. It is a story of poverty, deceit, dementia, and alcoholism. It is a story of errors in judgment. The daughter suffers because of her mother’s bad choices, yet she ends up making similar bad choices in…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Guest Post by Stephen Helmes
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• •Whether it be the 1910 horror film, Frankenstein, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, or the 1974 comedy from Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, the image of the monster and his creator are forever etched into our minds. But with all the great adaptations to this fine story over nearly two centuries, we should not…
Book Reviews, Dark Fiction, Fiction Writing, Mystery, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
Killer of Souls – a Review
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• •The story opens on the dark night of July 31, 1995. That night is dark in more ways than one. A ritualistic human sacrifice is being made. Oh, and the woman being sacrificed is pregnant. Then the story skips ahead to twenty-one years later. Has the sacrifice been forgotten? What about the child she was pregnant with? What became of it?
Editing, Fiction Writing, Grammar & Punctuation, Writing
Adjectives and Commas
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• •There are enough rules about when to use a comma and when not to use one to drive any normal person insane. Have you ever noticed that sometimes there are commas between adjectives and sometimes there aren’t? Why is that? Order of AdjectivesDid you know that there is an order in which adjectives should appear?…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Words
Let There Be Light: the Book & the Movie – a Review
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• •Author Interviews, Author Spotlight, Fiction Writing, Kentuckiana Authors
Atty Eve Interview: Writing the My Beautiful Suicide Series
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• •For this month’s Author Spotlight post, I interviewed Atty Eve, the author of the dark and powerful My Beautiful Suicide series. Was there anything that happened in your life that inspired this series? Anything you noticed going on in the world? The original inspiration for this series was the first line of a letter I…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Mystery, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
The Broken Girls – a Review
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• •Confusing Words, Fiction Writing, Words
Confusing Words: Bring vs. Take
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• •Bring and take are two words that a lot of people are confused about how to use. I’ve heard them used wrong on television shows, in movies, and on radio talk shows. Is there a reason for this confusion? Some people grew up in regions or households where these words were consistently used in the wrong way. Others…