Improve Your Writing: Blast into the Past

How to Round out Flat Characters with Backstories To add some curves to stock or flat characters, try to give them some memories. Having a backstory can help shape the…

Improve Your Writing: Alliteration

“Busy bees buzz brightly.” “Sally sells seashells by the seashore.” “Cats can create catastrophes constantly.” These sentences use alliteration. Alliteration is a literary device in which the writer repeatedly uses…

Improve Your Writing: Metaphor

Like simile, metaphor is a literary device that references another thing in order to tell you something about an object or idea. As we mentioned, simile compares two things using…

Improve Your Work: Personification

Have you ever heard someone say, “Shhh, the walls have ears!” Huh? That sounds like one creepy house, right? Just kidding! This doesn’t mean the walls literally have ears; rather,…