“Do you stare at everyone like that, or just me?” Jacks, The Prince of Hearts Synopsis: How far would you go for happily ever after? For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings…until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to…
Author: krickitt
Top 5 Books of 2021
Hello, hello my favorite literarians, academics, and rhetoricians! 2021 was full of wonderful books (and maybe some not-so-good-but-totally-helped-my-seasonal-depression ones). It was difficult to narrow it down to my top 5 of the year out of 50, but here’s my list! Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Genre: YA FantasyPage Count: 418 Rating: 5…
Musing
Someone once asked me what it was like to be a writer. In short, I had said “chaos”. But truly, it is a perilous ravine of self-doubt. A cavern of beautifully profound worlds. A sea of characters that had become family. To be a writer means balancing the crippling self-deprecation with lyrical prose and witty…
5 Science Fiction Prompts
Happy Star Wars Day, my little sci-fi nerds!
150 Words to Use Instead of “Very”
Happy Monday! Welcome to the third installment of our little series where we strengthen our verbs and adjectives!
These Violent Delights Book Review
By Chloe Gong
100 Words to Use Instead of “Walk”
Welcome to the writing tip of the week!
100 Words to Use Instead of “Said”
Welcome to the writing tip of the week!
The 3 Act, 8 Sequence Story Structure
Happy Monday, my friends! Let’s talk writing! I learned this technique some years ago during a college class and I thought I’d share it with you and show you how I outline my novels. The 3 acts are as simple as a beginning, a middle, and an end. But let’s break it down a touch…
Red, White, & Royal Blue Book Review
By Casey McQuiston Synopsis: First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a…