Tag: writing-tips

  • Poetic and sound-based literature devices

    Poetic and sound-based literature devices

    Literature’s origins came as an auditory form, through verbal storytelling – and even today, it can look very different then simply words on a page. Live readings, audiobooks, screen readers and forms that may not even exist at this moment in time mean that literature can become sonic – though there are still many ways…

  • Strangest Writing Habits: The Third

    Strangest Writing Habits: The Third

    If you are a glutton for punishment/die hard Impish Fan, you will have already consumed the first and second of the pre-existing informative articles detailing the strange writing habits of authors…  I don’t want to keep milking this topic dry but there were a few additional methods which could come in useful to know about…

  • Fictional creatures & cryptids in literature: the mer

    Fictional creatures & cryptids in literature: the mer

    Literature describes merpeople as water-dwelling, humanoid beings – widely grouped as ‘Mer’, they can take the form of mermaids, sirens, selkies and many more classifications. One thing for sure is that merfolk and all their offshoots can be found abundantly in literature. In this article, we’ll be diving deep (sorry) into the beginnings, usual presentations…

  • Fabulism

    Fabulism

    Storytellers of the fabulist genre create and share fables – which are short stories with a moral message at the end of them. Usually, fabulist authors employ the use of allegory, and may even resort to prose or verse to get their point across. In this article, we’ll be covering the history of the fable…

  • What are aphorisms and proverbs?

    What are aphorisms and proverbs?

    There are many creative ways to get a point across – and two of those ways are through aphorisms and proverbs. Both are often conflated with each other, and do have some similarities, which is why this blog post will outline the main differences and examples of the two.  There are also idioms which are…

  • More Strange Writing Habits

    More Strange Writing Habits

    Well, well, well… Here we are again with more strange writing habits to uncover. From tucking a book in to allotting time for stupidity, there are plenty of unconventional methods utilised by successful writers that may inspire your own works.  Disclaimer (which I am certain you Impers can recite from memory at this point) that…