Jennifer is a writer, reader, blogger, and all things books-type individual. No wonder we are friends! We highly recommend you check out her website here. When writing fantasy, one of the best parts is being able to create your own world, inhabited by your own races and creatures, each with their own laws and culture. It can be so much fun to let your imagination just run rampant, and see what you come up with! But it’s also one of the most difficult things to do. When writin

Where do ideas come from? This simple quandary has stumped generation after generation of thinkers, academics, writers, artists, musicians, and creative types of every kind. Interviewers constantly badger famous authors for any clue of where their most memorable fictional characters come from and songwriters dissect chart-topping hits in an attempt to reverse-engineer some long-kept secret formula. Much like the mythic Spring of Eternal Youth, the secret source of humanity’s

Role Models for Aspiring Authors When aspiring writers look for advice on how to guide or develop their own writing they often come across the axiom “Write what you know”, a saying attributed to both Twain and Hemingway (I have cited Twain as he was the earlier of the two writers). As a novice writer one can understand how life experience acted as a powerful catalyst for some writers to make their work both realistic and highly detailed. If we take the action and espionage ge

Maria is the author of the Thyme and Seasonings book series. Thyme and Seasonings is a fun and witty book that will help gauge where you’re at in life! You’ll learn a lot about yourself, and understand why some seasons, or let’s say Thyme and Seasonings, feel like you’re getting nowhere or even moving backwards. You can learn more about her and her books at https://www.mariabakera.com/. “One step forward and two steps back. Swing your partner back and step forwards again.” Ok