Screen time is a scorching hot button issue between parents and their children: kids can’t seem to get enough while parents struggle to keep it under control. According to Common Sense Media, 59 ...

If the result of publishers seeking to capitalise on a trend for more diverse non-fiction is fresh books addressing topics that go beyond dinosaurs and astronauts, kids should be the winners.

There are some hard ethical questions in the writing of crime fiction. For me, the most difficult one is how to portray violence. For one thing, should you depict it all?

Writing techniques that help create psychologically-realistic characters are illustrated. .Novelists have sometimes-unconscious reasons for choosing certain themes and characters to write about.

MUSCATINE, Iowa— Children's author Mike Graf, of California, was invited by the Muscatine Community School District to provide a writing workshop to the talented and gifted students in the district.

Key points As readers, we usually want fictional characters to be both unique and psychologically realistic. Psychiatrist-novelists have a well of clinical experience teaching them how people feel ...

What is Speculative Fiction? With subgenres like fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history and more, speculative fiction is an encompassing genre that freely explores possibility and ...

At the same time, the themes are not all over the place." For her part, Atwood says this is not the time for realistic fiction — and it's no coincidence that dystopia and fantasy are on the rise ...

Object Details Author Kurstedt, Rosanne Koutras, Maria Contents Using picture books as writing models -- Recognizing memorable language and other introductory lessons -- Planning and writing memoir -- ...

Writing fiction is not as hard as it seems, as long as you follow these eight simple rules: Show, don’t tell. Remember show-and-tell in elementary school, when you’d bring in an object from ...