Allowing yourself to enjoy the process of creating is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. I am the first to admit that this concept is sometimes difficult to follow. When I have my eye on the result and it’s not being achieved as fast as I want, I get frustrated. In times...
‘Flash Fiction’, (sometimes referred to as a short-short story), doesn’t have a set definition, but is generally considered to be a piece of fiction consisting of a thousand words or less. Certain publications of this medium are even more conservative with the word count, hugging closer to the five-hundred word mark. The word count may...
Hear me out on this. With the NFL in full swing, I, along with millions of others around the world, have plunged into the uncertain waters of fantasy football. For those not familiar with this “sport”, fantasy football is a competition in which participants draft “teams” from among the players in the NFL and...
On July 3 of this year, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton landed on Disney+, allowing audiences around the world to enjoy the hit musical for the first time. There are many reasons why this production, based on the life of one of America’s often overlooked founding fathers, achieved such massive success. Though its easy to acknowledge the...
There are two things you should know before you read this analysis. First off, this is a review of the novel Ready: Player One, not the film. As of yet, I have not seen the movie. Second of all, I am breaking this review into two separate parts. As a Christian fiction writer, I...
Voltampsreactive is happy to welcome Audrey Bodine as today’s guest writer. Audrey is an aspiring writer who’s work can be found on her own blog, audreybodineauthor.wordpress.com. Five Steps to Improve Your Writing Reading Whether it’s a pamphlet for self-tying shoes or the latest biography on the market, reading is an invaluable resource for writers....
Recently, I had the opportunity to put together a book trailer for my novel, “Like Melvin”. This turned out to be an extremely educational experience that opened my eyes to the value of this option for new authors. Here are the three reasons why authors need to create book trailers: Video is a Powerful Conveyor...
Creating the proper tension for a scene is one of the most difficult challenges a writer can face. Providing all of the proper elements that culminate in a nerve tightening sequence of suppressed anticipation takes skill, precision, and proper planning. When it comes to kids’ movies, these challenges increase tenfold. While adults may be willing...
All the cards on the table: I’m a huge Sherlock Holmes buff. Ever since I read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in grade school, I’ve been a diehard aficionado of the detective in the deerstalker. When BBC released Sherlock, I was skeptical about the concept of placing the famous sleuth and his equally famous sidekick...
There is no TV show that quite makes use of fast moving, high level, intellectual bantering as “Frasier”. Perhaps one of the most successful spinoffs of all time, “Frasier” took a beloved character from an equally beloved tv show and built a small and lively world around him. If there is one area where “Frasier”...
