Steampunk can be baffling to those outside the genre. What is it about the thought of steam-powered Victoriana that people find so fascinating? How has a particular type of technology situated in a very particular time period become a fully-fledged genre? Whatever it is, there’s no denying steampunk’s popularity; with numerous movies, video games, fashion
The third person perspective, abandoning ‘I’ in favor of ‘him, her, it and them’, is the natural writing style for telling stories about other people. It’s no surprise then that the vast majority of stories are told in the third person. In this article, I’ll be exploring the advantages third person narration offers authors, as
Despite being a necessary and enjoyable part of most narratives, backstory is a bit of a storytelling anomaly. The more complex or involving a story the author is telling, the more time they’re forced to spend outside it. Readers want to know where fascinating characters came from, and that means exploring events you may never
Designing your book’s cover can be so many things: a labor of love, an ego trip, an uphill struggle, but what it should be is an attempt to communicate. In this article, I’ll look at some covers of famous works and explore what makes them work (or what ensures they don’t) and what they can
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