Gothic Literature is a sub-genre of romanticism consisting of novels and short stories, which emerged between 1800 and 1850. Gothic Literature focuses on the grotesque, desolate, and mysterious usually including supernatural or horror motifs to show the evil inside of humans. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Joyce Carol Oates use settings, events, and characters... Continue Reading →
Write About It Wednesdays are all about giving you something to write about! This is the third installment of our Write About It Wednesdays meaning we have already given you six prompts to write about, and hopefully you have found them helpful and inspiring so far. Today’s Write About It Topic is: RESOLUTIONS Write about... Continue Reading →
Thank you for joining us for our second, “Write About It Wednesday.” We hope that you found last week’s prompts inspiring and helpful to your writing process. This week the Write About It Wednesday theme is New Year’s Eve. WRITING PROMPTS: Write about a serial killer who only kills on New Year’s Eve. Write about... Continue Reading →
Gothic Literature is a sub-genre of romanticism consisting of novels and short stories, which emerged between 1800 and 1850. Gothic Literature focuses on the grotesque, desolate, and mysterious usually including supernatural or horror motifs to show the evil inside of humans. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Joyce Carol Oates use settings, events, and characters... Continue Reading →
My writing muse is a diva. She looks like your stereotypical Greek Muse (think the muses from the Disney movie Hercules as pictured above), but she is sassy, snotty, inconsiderate, and diva-licious. I have named her Diana Ross. Let me just go ahead and state that this in no way reflects upon the Great Diana... Continue Reading →
Flash Fiction: After the War © Michelle C. Hilstrom 2015 Before I left for The War, my daughter and I used to go to the park together while my wife attended her Bible Studies class at the church. My daughter loved to swing at that park. She’d swing so high she’d ask me if she... Continue Reading →
Michelle C. Hillstrom - Author 