People. They might just as easily be from your city but I’ll speak of mine. Dickens wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” To some this line is confusing. But others are already forming an argument in their head about what he meant by it. Hold on to those …
“Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” Thus will read the hypothetical epitaph on the hypothetical gravestone of the protagonist of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim meanders through Vonnegut’s novel, almost a third-person observer of his own life. Throughout the vignette-laden journey, Vonnegut reveals an interesting commentary on life from Billy’s perspective. I can’t …
Writing villains and antagonists is not easy for me. I think that’s partly because I don’t think I’m much of a villain at heart. Now writing is a challenge, but in one of my stories, I decided to write from a villain’s perspective, and that made everything twice as difficult (more on that later). But …