When Are You at Your Most Creative? #writing #creativethinking

Hello, SEers. It’s Mae Day on Story Empire, and I’d like to lead off with a question: When are you at your most creative? Are you a morning lark or a night owl? Our internal clock works off the light/dark cycle of Earth, meaning our circadian rhythm operates on a twenty-four period. Some people have …

Friday Book Share – The Body Keeper by Anne Frasier

Hello and happy Friday to all the Story Empire readers. We've been deviating from our regular Friday schedule for some time and today, I do so again with a Book Share post. Anne Frasier's the author and the book is The Body Keeper, the third novel from the Jude Fontaine Detective Mysteries. Jude is a …

Using Similes and Metaphors

Hi, SE Readers. Joan here today. We’ve all heard of similes and metaphors. Most of us have probably used them in our writing at some point. Using a simile or metaphor is an easy way to describe a character’s personality or what they are feeling. Both similes and metaphors are used to make comparisons, but …

How to Use a Paragraph

Hello SErs! Harmony here 🙂 While today's topic might, at first glance, seem basic and obvious, it has more to it than what shows on the surface. For certain, when I wrote my first book, I didn't think about paragraph structure or use at all. I just wrote. And then my learning curve began. In …

Friday Book Share: Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine

Ciao, SEers. It's time for a Friday book share. Today, I'm going to talk about a book from the psychological thriller genre, Stillhouse Lake by Rachael Caine. (If you read my personal blog, you already saw my review of this plus the rest of the series. If you don't follow me but are interested in …