If you haven’t heard yet, Ugandan marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei was burned alive by her boyfriend and died. She had just run in the Olympics and went to Kenya only to be doused in gasoline and set on fire. There’s a bunch of discourse going around the internet right now about how the media is wording …
Colleen Hoover’s book, “It Ends With Us,” has been turned into a movie adaptation starring Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. It came to theatres on August 9th. I’ve been very open about my distaste for Colleen Hoover in previous posts. I find that her books lean heavily into misogynistic stereotypes that are just subtle enough …
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I wouldn’t consider myself a true crime fanatic but there are cases that pop up here and there that I get fascinated by. Mostly the unsolved or still debated ones- the first one that comes to mind is the Amanda Knox case which my AP Lang class studied in my junior year of high school. …
Before I start this, I would like to preface- I hate Colleen Hoover. I say this because I’m about to say something very pro-Hoover, but I need you to understand my extreme distaste for her. I was in a six-year reading slump from going into the sixth grade to ending my junior year of high …
So much of what I’ve written and published has been in the dystopian category. For a while now, I’ve wanted to write about something I know and something I’m more passionate about, and while it took me a little while to put together, I came up with a story centered around journalism. I’ve also always …
So I was working on this one for a while, but I got a really nasty writer’s block and never picked it up again. That being said, though, I’ll pick it up again after I finish The Blood Of the Drakes. The whole gimmick of this book was that it was about the people that …
Where’s Willow was my first dip into the horror/thriller genre, and I actually really enjoyed writing it. It’s 100% still a draft, but I do plan on picking it back up at some point in the future! This is the full 55 pages, so it’s pretty long for a short story. Prologue Ben All I …