Archetypes

Archetypes

Archetypes. They’re not stereotypes! I’m delving into creating characters for my next Zodiac novel and fooling with archetypes. Definitions Stereotypes are an oversimplification of a type of person—the evil, mustache twirling villain who does bad things for the pure...
Writing to Trope

Writing to Trope

We all like to think that we write original stories that no one has ever written before. In a sense that’s true. On the other hand, it’s also highly likely that your story falls into a trope. According to Wikipedia, a trop is “a writer’s usage of commonly...
Finally found my writing software

Finally found my writing software

I feel like Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. I’ve been everywhere looking for the perfect writing software and I’d already had it with me all along, I just hadn’t realized it. Thanks to one comment from a completely unrelated question on Reddit, I discovered the...