When reading a work of literature there are certain questions that we should ask ourselves in order to adequately analyze and evaluate its content, like: “How does the author’s syntax and diction reveal underlying themes of the work?” or “How is the use of a narrator employed?” or “How do the characters interact with one [...]

Good writing is hard.
Think of the countless rewrites you’ve done with a project even after coming up with a killer idea you know is just going to rock. Well, if you’re a creative writing student, or just someone whose friends get a kick out of your wildly-spun tales, you’re guaranteed to get read and likely [...]

Writing is like lion taming. One grammatical slip, one transposed letter, one misplaced contraction, just one false move, and it’s over. You’re done for. You instantly lose credibility to the reader, and the lion eats your legs and uses your arms as toothpicks. English is a complicated language, and it’s easy [...]

The term “poetry” is extremely broad. Currently, however, there seems to be a stereotype in which it is commonly linked with ideas of intense emotion, grave subject matter, and/or passionate love. In reality, poetry can have many forms, and throughout history has ranged from political agendas to religious topics to elaborate story telling. [...]

It’s easy to think of poetry as a method of totally free expression, as just a few lines of whatever’s on your mind or in your heart. Write a few sentences, pop in a few line breaks, and presto, you’ve got a poem, right? Wrong. Drop and give me twenty.

We all know that the internet is packed with great resources for writers. But with all the writing you’re doing, you just haven’t got time to dig through the piles of writing blogs out there. There’s just too many to sift through. So, your friendly neighborhood Scribophile staff took it upon themselves [...]