How To Create An Engaging Character
Hey guys! Today I’m going to talk about how I create characters in 7 easy steps. Step One: Base Traits For Jade, this was as follows: She’s stubborn, she’s a hothead, and she’s incredibly good in combat. That gives you a rough outline as to what the character is and…
The Abusive Muse Essay
Lauren Hemphill 4/9/18 Artistic Statement The reason this particular essay was written for my final assignment is due to, in part, Virginia Woolf and our discussion in class about her mental health and the issues she faced in a world that did not understand. As a writer myself who…
Ramblings on Woolf
I think often of Woolf and the way we treated her. There is much to say about the Muse and its slipping existence from the creative world. How as time passed, creatives stopped placing their abilities on this phantom Muse, stopped attributing part of their successes and failures to this…
There Are Spiders In My Eyes
Sometimes there are spiders in my eyes. I see the black shapes skittering across my vision, prompting me to turn, ready to leap away from the foul creature before it got too close. But they aren’t there, they aren’t scurrying across the grey fabric of my hand-made couch. They aren’t…
Queer
I sit in the corner of my room and listen to the bugs fly by. I wonder how long it’ll take to eat me after I die. To swallow me whole or piece by piece, A lifetime of anguish never to cease. Will they tell their family what they’ve devoured?…