Blogging 101: Where Did Blogs Begin?
Jan 08, 2019
For most of the millennial generation, blogs have always been around. But as with everything else, even blogging has its origin. Let’s take a step back into the ’90s and see where it all began.
Online Diaries of the ’90s
The first blog is said to be created b...
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The History of Fiction: Defining and Discovering Fiction
Jan 01, 2019
We all create fiction in our heads: replaying and reimagining scenarios or thinking up alternate worlds. Putting them on paper is trickier because we have to be careful about defining the stories we write: Is this still fiction or not?
You can never go wrong by going back to the dictionary defi...
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Writing Hacks: Fiction Framework—Booker’s Basic Storytelling Plots
Dec 05, 2017
Writers keep trying to be original, but let’s face it: in fiction, nothing is really original anymore. There’s proof!
The Seven Basic Plots is a book by psychologist Christopher Booker about, well, the seven basic plots most often used by writers and most enjoyed by readers. Even though the...
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