Anthologies

Hey, SE Readers. Joan with you today. In my last post, I talked about the advantages of writing short stories and how they could be stand-alone works or part of a collection. Today, I want to talk about anthologies. What’s the difference? Dictionary (dot) com defines an anthology as this: A book or other collection …

Stopping Book Piracy

Greetings, SE’ers! Beem Weeks here with you again. Today, I am going to expose those dastardly book pirates! Pirates! They are fine for stories told within the pages of the books we read. But book piracy is another story altogether. Illegal book consumption accounts for 17% of all downloaded ebooks. This is stealing. Those who …

Fictional Characters and Their Political Interests

Hello Story Empire readers, Gwen with you today and together we're going to consider the political interests of our characters. This is Part 2 of last month's post on Religion and Politics. Let's dive into it. Canva photo About a month ago, I watched the movie, A Private War. It is a biopic based on …

Advantages of Writing Short Stories

Hey, SE Readers. Joan with you today. This post is short and sweet. (Pun intended.) Let’s talk about short stories. A collection of shorts. (Wait, those are dachshunds.) There are advantages to writing shorter pieces of fiction. Not only does the writing process take less time, but many readers these days have shorter attention spans. …

Showing – Not Telling Emotions

  Hi SEers. John here with you today. I’m going to further discuss the idea of giving characters life with gestures. The reason for gestures (or beats as they are sometimes called) is to provide a character some tools to share with the reader without the writer explaining what is going on. These tools can …