If you are indie writer for online novels, especially amateur one, I bet you have stuck in a certain kind of “sleep mode”once. No matter it is for your busy schedule, bottleneck in creation, or even your procrastination, you just find yourself remained stagnant for some reason. You strive to regain your morale and clear your thought, and remind yourself of active feedback and comment of your readers would be a positive motive for most of writers who are developing their serial stories online. However, spiritual encouragement is not powerful enough. In this respect, a paid work would be a good choice. You could consider either contribution to paid reading site, or join writing contest run by provider of free online books.
Here are some recommended sites for you, as an online novel writer, to get access to exciting online writing contest to earn you some rewards. These sites would regularly or irregularly start contests with various theme. Just keep an eye on them and see what kind of topics are suitable for you.
Wattpad
www.wattpad.com/go/writing-contests
The famous community for you to read and share your own stories features a stream of contests in various themes. Through numerous funny ways to activate the storytelling habit, writers not only get chances to earn dollars, publishing deal, iTune Gift Card or other rewards, but also build up their audiences. Writers can even create their own contests.
Writer's Digest
www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-competitions
Four competitions are currently available on this self-publishing site, including Self-Published eBook Awards, Popular Fiction Awards, Poetry Awards and Short Short Story Competition. Writers of fiction or non-fiction would discover target relevant to their own strong points and interest.
Re:Fiction
https://refiction.com/writing-contests
The site hosts a fiction contest in every month, coming with cash prize but no entry fee. There is no requirement for the length of stories. It could be a highly efficient way for productive writers to win some awards, which could be a fund for publication.
Reedsy
https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-contests/
The young London-based company launched a modern marketplace for indie writers and designers to publish their creative works. At this moment, it is running a Writing Prompts Inspired Short Story Contest, which meets its deadline on December 31st, 2017. Meanwhile, you can also use the searching engine of the site to tap into contests run by other publishing companies that match your own criteria and targets.
Poetry Space
www.poetryspace.co.uk/young-writers-space
This online poetry website based in Bristol, UK, offers the chance for young writers to submit their stories, poems, drawings and cartoons. It is not only a good way to encourage creation of young authors but also valuable opportunity for interaction between parents and children.
Hunger Mountain
http://hungermtn.org/contests/
The site hosts four annual contests online, including The Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, The Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize, The Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and The Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. All contests open for submission from October 1st to March 1st in each year.
Ficfun
www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results
This young and energetic online fiction publisher is growing fast since its launch, which lately announced the awards and winners of its first FicFun Writing Contest. Among the respective 1st place winners of Fan Choice Awards in the genres of romance, teen fiction, vampire/werewolf, mystery/crime and sci-fction. Claiming Lord Thuran by Lisa Kumar, The Big Bang by Hans Jefferson Paglinawan, Poison Orchid by Shreya Chakraborty, Donsal Road by Bernadette San Agustin and Chasm Scar by Brittany Rush would surely inspire more interesting future novels from the authors. A small tip is that since it is relatedly young, writers would possibly encounter less competitors than other fully developed reading sites at this moment.
So all the above sound attractive enough for you to dig into your creation?
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Thursday, September 28, 2017
War Of Words: Famous Feuds Between Authors
Over the years there have been a number of intense rivalries in the world of fiction. Some amount to a scathing putdown or a pithy reply while others last for decades and lead to actual fights. We looked at some of the more famous incidents in the history of literature.
Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal
Perhaps the most infamous feud between authors is that of 20th century intellectual behemoths Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal. Mailer, had a illustrious career culminating in the Pulitzer Prize win for The Executioner’s Song. Vidal, enjoyed a long career in both non-fiction and fiction novels and even courted political office on a couple of occasions. Neither man was exactly known for holding back their opinions and when the two crossed paths it created a rivalry that produced some legendary stories.
It was Vidal who drew first blood by drawing the less than favorable comparison between Mailer’s Prisoner of Sex and “three days of menstrual flow” and the writer to serial killer Charles Manson. Mailer, in return, repaid Vidal with a head butt backstage of The Dick Cavett Show.
Six years later, their war of words turned physical once more. Mailer threw a drink at Vidal at a party before punching him square in the face. Vidal had the last laugh though. Sprawled out on the floor, he still managed to hand out of the harshest burns in literary history when he said, “Once again, words fail Norman Mailer.”
William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway are considered greats of American literature, and rightfully so. Both authors were recipients of the Pulitzer Prize and have long bibliographies full of classics. Hemingway most popular books for The Old Man And The Sea and A Farewell To Arms, while Faulkner’s highlights included As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom!
Hemingway was famous for his short and deceptively simple sentences, while Faulkner wrote challenging stream-of-consciousness prose. In fact, he held the title in the Guinness Book Of Records for the longest sentence in literature. It was this difference in style that would be the source of their feud.
Faulkner, when asked to rank his contemporary writers, said of Hemingway, “He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary.”
Hemingway’s response was equally critical of Faulkner. “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
These two select quotes are often repeated and have gone down in literature history. The truth is, however, that besides this back and forth, there was not much rivalry between the authors. In fact, in the interview that Faulkner was quoted in, he had just ranked Hemingway as the fourth greatest writer of his time. Ahead of the likes of John Steinbeck. Faulkner was especially full of praise for The Old Man And The Sea, a book which he described as ‘His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries.” Hemingway for his part, often referred to Faulkner as ‘the best of us all”.
Brett Easton Ellis and David Foster Wallace
One of the more controversial war of words between authors in recent times, is quite unique in that one of the authors was unable to defend himself on the account of, well, being dead.
When David Foster Wallace committed suicide at the age of 46 in 2008, there was an outpouring of tributes for the Infinite Jest author. Dave Eggers called his work “world changing” and according to Zadie Smith, he “was an actual genius”.
Not all his contemporaries were quite as complimentary. Brett Easton Ellis, the outspoken author of classics such as Less Than Zero and American Psycho, took to Twitter to lay into Foster Wallace. His rant included mockingly referring to the author as “Saint David Foster Wallace”, calling him “a fraud” that “carried around a literary pretentiousness” and referring to those that read novels of his as “Fools”.
It was quite an astonishing attack on a man that had just died and was not able to defend himself. Yet, if we dig into the archives of his essays, we can find that Foster Wallace didn’t think much of Easton Ellis either. In 1988’s Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young, in reference to writers like Easton Ellis he wrote, “The attitude betrayed is similar to that of lightweight neo-classicals who felt that to be non-vulgar was not just a requirement but an assurance of value, or of insecure scholars who confuse obscurity with profundity. And it’s just about as annoying.”
Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal
Perhaps the most infamous feud between authors is that of 20th century intellectual behemoths Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal. Mailer, had a illustrious career culminating in the Pulitzer Prize win for The Executioner’s Song. Vidal, enjoyed a long career in both non-fiction and fiction novels and even courted political office on a couple of occasions. Neither man was exactly known for holding back their opinions and when the two crossed paths it created a rivalry that produced some legendary stories.
It was Vidal who drew first blood by drawing the less than favorable comparison between Mailer’s Prisoner of Sex and “three days of menstrual flow” and the writer to serial killer Charles Manson. Mailer, in return, repaid Vidal with a head butt backstage of The Dick Cavett Show.
Six years later, their war of words turned physical once more. Mailer threw a drink at Vidal at a party before punching him square in the face. Vidal had the last laugh though. Sprawled out on the floor, he still managed to hand out of the harshest burns in literary history when he said, “Once again, words fail Norman Mailer.”
William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway are considered greats of American literature, and rightfully so. Both authors were recipients of the Pulitzer Prize and have long bibliographies full of classics. Hemingway most popular books for The Old Man And The Sea and A Farewell To Arms, while Faulkner’s highlights included As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom!
Hemingway was famous for his short and deceptively simple sentences, while Faulkner wrote challenging stream-of-consciousness prose. In fact, he held the title in the Guinness Book Of Records for the longest sentence in literature. It was this difference in style that would be the source of their feud.
Faulkner, when asked to rank his contemporary writers, said of Hemingway, “He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary.”
Hemingway’s response was equally critical of Faulkner. “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
These two select quotes are often repeated and have gone down in literature history. The truth is, however, that besides this back and forth, there was not much rivalry between the authors. In fact, in the interview that Faulkner was quoted in, he had just ranked Hemingway as the fourth greatest writer of his time. Ahead of the likes of John Steinbeck. Faulkner was especially full of praise for The Old Man And The Sea, a book which he described as ‘His best. Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries.” Hemingway for his part, often referred to Faulkner as ‘the best of us all”.
Brett Easton Ellis and David Foster Wallace
One of the more controversial war of words between authors in recent times, is quite unique in that one of the authors was unable to defend himself on the account of, well, being dead.
When David Foster Wallace committed suicide at the age of 46 in 2008, there was an outpouring of tributes for the Infinite Jest author. Dave Eggers called his work “world changing” and according to Zadie Smith, he “was an actual genius”.
Not all his contemporaries were quite as complimentary. Brett Easton Ellis, the outspoken author of classics such as Less Than Zero and American Psycho, took to Twitter to lay into Foster Wallace. His rant included mockingly referring to the author as “Saint David Foster Wallace”, calling him “a fraud” that “carried around a literary pretentiousness” and referring to those that read novels of his as “Fools”.
It was quite an astonishing attack on a man that had just died and was not able to defend himself. Yet, if we dig into the archives of his essays, we can find that Foster Wallace didn’t think much of Easton Ellis either. In 1988’s Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young, in reference to writers like Easton Ellis he wrote, “The attitude betrayed is similar to that of lightweight neo-classicals who felt that to be non-vulgar was not just a requirement but an assurance of value, or of insecure scholars who confuse obscurity with profundity. And it’s just about as annoying.”
Monday, September 25, 2017
Winners Announced: FicFun’s First Ever Original Fiction Writing Contest Results
FicFun, an online community formed by literature enthusiasts and bookworms, just wrapped up its first ever Writing Contest. The online library’s jury panel announced the names of the 35 winning writers and reviewed original works of fiction of contestants from twenty-three countries, including the United States, Canada, Philippines, India and many more. The online reader’s community announced the 25 recipients of the Fan Choice Award, 10 winners for the Editor’s Choice Award, and 7 winners of the Reader’s Award. During the review process, a total of 4315 votes were counted, in addition to 412 reader’s comments.
FicFun emphasizes all contest winners to collect their rewards and claim their prizes by December 4th, 2017. Contestants who won First Place in the Fan Choice Award are entitled to $500, while second place winners are eligible for $300, and third place holders for $200. For the complete list of FicFun’s winners, visit www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results .
Genres of the FicFun’s Writing Contest feature five genres: Romance Novels, Teen Fiction, Vampire/Werewolf, Mystery/Crime, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. All winners, from first to fifth place, across all 5 categories, are also entitled the same amount of prize money as Fan Choice Award Winners, in the same order.
In addition to the Fan Choice Awards, the Editor’s Choice Awards honor aspiring writers with a cash prize of $100, along with $10 Amazon Gift Cards to active FicFun.com users who are vocal on the comment sections. “Many submitted stories were so heart-warming and gripping that both our editors and readers had a hard time in selecting winners,” said Matthew Liu,the company director of FicFun. “We want to thank all contestants for sending in their original works of fiction. They truly made our first contest a success.”
“FicFun is a growing community of independent authors of fiction, as well as passionate readers, so this contest was a great opportunity for us to connect with more talented writers from all over the world, and give them an audience, too” said Matthew.
FicFun will soon announce their second fiction writing contest, which according to Matthew, will be “grander, with bigger awards for winners.”
For more information about FicFun, visit their site at www.ficfun.com. To see the complete list of contest winners, go to www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results. Contact edit@ficfun.com for writing or other inquiries.
FicFun emphasizes all contest winners to collect their rewards and claim their prizes by December 4th, 2017. Contestants who won First Place in the Fan Choice Award are entitled to $500, while second place winners are eligible for $300, and third place holders for $200. For the complete list of FicFun’s winners, visit www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results .
Genres of the FicFun’s Writing Contest feature five genres: Romance Novels, Teen Fiction, Vampire/Werewolf, Mystery/Crime, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. All winners, from first to fifth place, across all 5 categories, are also entitled the same amount of prize money as Fan Choice Award Winners, in the same order.
In addition to the Fan Choice Awards, the Editor’s Choice Awards honor aspiring writers with a cash prize of $100, along with $10 Amazon Gift Cards to active FicFun.com users who are vocal on the comment sections. “Many submitted stories were so heart-warming and gripping that both our editors and readers had a hard time in selecting winners,” said Matthew Liu,the company director of FicFun. “We want to thank all contestants for sending in their original works of fiction. They truly made our first contest a success.”
“FicFun is a growing community of independent authors of fiction, as well as passionate readers, so this contest was a great opportunity for us to connect with more talented writers from all over the world, and give them an audience, too” said Matthew.
FicFun will soon announce their second fiction writing contest, which according to Matthew, will be “grander, with bigger awards for winners.”
For more information about FicFun, visit their site at www.ficfun.com. To see the complete list of contest winners, go to www.ficfun.com/novelCompetition/results. Contact edit@ficfun.com for writing or other inquiries.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
YA:Similar but Still Different Stories
Young adult literature (YA), or you can also use the terms like young adult book, young adult fiction, teen fiction, teen novel, etc. It seems that they are somewhat loyal to the same essence of the category. As a teenager, the main character would be, probably struggling with various stuff, when changes take place at certain point of his/her life, psychologically and physically. A tiny event, which may be considered meaningless to people not at their age, might mean the world to them. Thing can be more exaggerated in their world, which has been already changing radically. They would be embraced with unfamiliar great challenges and will step into a new era after they find a break-though.
Here you can see some interesting analogy between a teenager and a werewolf. In addition, just like the werewolf in folklore, changes ahead of young men, in both body and mind, as well as in individual and surroundings, could be vastly different among them. Even if they are forced to tackle similar problems, such like parent’s divorce, unreasonable family expectation, unfriendly schoolmates, or even an extreme fictional life of illusion just like those in The Giver, The Maze Runner or The 5th Wave, each young adult has his own war to fight. Good teenager fictions always come with a bright ending, when main characters sweep aside the dark clouds, to find his own solution, or at least, reveal some fact of the life and the world.
Although not every teenager fiction could be considered“literature”, to some extent, it mirrors what young people are interested in and what does the world around them looks like. If not “literature”, it is still a story told by those who are teenagers or, “retired” teenagers.
Then what kind of teen fiction we recommend now? Here is a list we would like to share with you.
-The Big Bang，by Hans Jefferson Paglinawan
The award-winning online fiction focuses on a group of outcasts, who attempts to bomb their high school through an elaborate plan of trickery, knowledge, and mischief.
- The Lotus and the Loon，by G.A. Zimmermann
Enjoying great readers’clicks, this teen fiction follows the amazing story of Eden and Roselle. Eden is known as the Loon. She's the lurker, the lookout, the one who watches from the shadows and learns. Her partner is Roselle, the Lotus and the temptress -- tasked with seducing the king. Too bad that once the king starts chasing the Loon, Eden's role in their high-stakes mission goes from a gamble... to just plain scrambled.
-Midnight Smiles, by Nyssa Weirdo
Struggling addict, Jake, tries to escape from police and accidently breaks into a girl’s room. Surprisingly, this stupid action leads him again towards the light… This latest romance fiction come from productive writer of Cinderella My Ass, Bad Girl Art Club and Protecting the Bad Boy.
- Nicholette's Reign, by H.M. Moktadir
It is a fantasy store about Nicholette Boyojek and her beloved kingdom. The girl has just been crowned the young queen of Delladine after the mysterious death of her father. She quickly finds herself in a battle of politics with the surrounding countries and her own cabinet members. The first book of this novel has already come to the finale.
All the fictions above can be read free on www.ficfun.com. Don’t forget to discover more interesting online books and share with us.
Here you can see some interesting analogy between a teenager and a werewolf. In addition, just like the werewolf in folklore, changes ahead of young men, in both body and mind, as well as in individual and surroundings, could be vastly different among them. Even if they are forced to tackle similar problems, such like parent’s divorce, unreasonable family expectation, unfriendly schoolmates, or even an extreme fictional life of illusion just like those in The Giver, The Maze Runner or The 5th Wave, each young adult has his own war to fight. Good teenager fictions always come with a bright ending, when main characters sweep aside the dark clouds, to find his own solution, or at least, reveal some fact of the life and the world.
Although not every teenager fiction could be considered“literature”, to some extent, it mirrors what young people are interested in and what does the world around them looks like. If not “literature”, it is still a story told by those who are teenagers or, “retired” teenagers.
Then what kind of teen fiction we recommend now? Here is a list we would like to share with you.
-The Big Bang，by Hans Jefferson Paglinawan
The award-winning online fiction focuses on a group of outcasts, who attempts to bomb their high school through an elaborate plan of trickery, knowledge, and mischief.
- The Lotus and the Loon，by G.A. Zimmermann
Enjoying great readers’clicks, this teen fiction follows the amazing story of Eden and Roselle. Eden is known as the Loon. She's the lurker, the lookout, the one who watches from the shadows and learns. Her partner is Roselle, the Lotus and the temptress -- tasked with seducing the king. Too bad that once the king starts chasing the Loon, Eden's role in their high-stakes mission goes from a gamble... to just plain scrambled.
-Midnight Smiles, by Nyssa Weirdo
Struggling addict, Jake, tries to escape from police and accidently breaks into a girl’s room. Surprisingly, this stupid action leads him again towards the light… This latest romance fiction come from productive writer of Cinderella My Ass, Bad Girl Art Club and Protecting the Bad Boy.
- Nicholette's Reign, by H.M. Moktadir
It is a fantasy store about Nicholette Boyojek and her beloved kingdom. The girl has just been crowned the young queen of Delladine after the mysterious death of her father. She quickly finds herself in a battle of politics with the surrounding countries and her own cabinet members. The first book of this novel has already come to the finale.
All the fictions above can be read free on www.ficfun.com. Don’t forget to discover more interesting online books and share with us.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
What to Read on“Read A Book Day”
September 6th. It is the National Read A Book Day! Some would possibly have no idea about this day and they could even wonder why it is necessary to have such a day. As you know, we have already the most famous World Book Day on April 23th to promote the awareness on reading, publication and copyright, and unofficially. In January, the annually National Reading Day encourages young children to read, celebrated in thousands of schools all around the United States. To remind people of the happiness of reading and family participation, Drop Everything and Read (D.E.A.R.) is a special day to celebrate the birthday of Beverly Cleary, the well-known American author of children's and young adult fiction, which is on April 12th. And, We have a August 9th for bookworms in the world to celebrate Book Lovers Day. You will even find a Free Comic Book Day in each May, which was rolled out by North American comic book industry, for the promotion for independent comic book stores. And, don’t forget the National Coloring Book Day on August 2nd, which was founded in 1941 and have got popular for it to promote the stress reliever for both children and adult.
So, why bother getting another one, since they are so similar? Because sometime you do need a push and it does no harm to you at all!
The funny thing is, such a symbolic occasion could trigger busy people’impulse, adding one more interesting excuse for everyone to find something to read. No matter these days are for spirit inspiration or marketing strategy, reading is still a happy thing for human being. Reading in modern day plays a role as a tranquilizer for the soul.
The Read A Book Day is a pretty new occasion, which appeared at early 2000s, with the positive idea to encourage young people to read. As all other celebration for readers, it is by no means compulsory although it requires readers to accomplish a small but challenging task: to grab a book and finish reading it in one day. Readers could choose fiction or non-fiction as long as they are comfortable enough to rest their soul in.
If you don’t have any bookshelf by your side when you are reading this artilce, don’t worry because you still have your computer, tablet or cellphone, right? You are not necessary to be restrained by print books, since E-book serves as good choice as well. We would like to share with you some short stories and collections that you can read literally in one day, or even several hours. All the following recommended books are free to read online from http://www.ficfun.com, a provider for online novels.
-Alone In the World, by schma10
The 14 year old Ben explains the entire story of his childhood: after his parents died in a car accident, he and Seth survives the horror of foster care system, until Ben pushes his abusive foster father down the stairs. Now out of prison, Ben sought to escape the clutches of the police, crooks, and liars to get to Seth and find a new life in California with the help of his late parent's old cop friend: Aaron.
-Baring My Soul, by Pratibha Badgal
This hit online science fiction online tells a story about a young lad, Nichole. Let’s save the spoiler alert and find out what destiny has in store for him online.
-Haunted Schools, by Yixuan__Uniq
Collection of short stories about all scared tales in haunted schools, terrifying you with the born human fear of death.
-Nicholette's Reign (Book 1), by H.M. Moktadir
This is a teen fiction about the main character, Nicholette Boyojek, a new young queen of Delladine, who finds herself in a battle of politics with the surrounding countries and her own cabinet members, after her father’s mysterious death.
-Shut up and Kiss Me, by Angelyn Hernandez
A romance fiction. Having been cheated for the fifth time, Abbie Collins wanted to believe that love wasn't really for her and then she met Jake Watson. She thought all will be flowers and rainbows until her father decided to be a part of her life again.
-Story Bazaar, by amzolt
It is a collection of tales, including nearly forty short stories like “Lost Birthright”, “A Wichy Brew”, “Home, Sweat Home”, “Loser” , “The Invention”and more.
If all the above do not cater to you every whim, please feel free to discover the right one for you on http://www.ficfun.com.，where you are able to find a bundle of completed novels and short stories. Of course, there have adequate stock for your future reading. And, by the way, the rewards of the first FicFun Writing Contest is about to be revealed so why not checking out the lists for popular books among other book lovers? You can also leave your comment to writers or share your reading experience with a good numbers of book lovers through FicFun’s official account of Discord.
So, why bother getting another one, since they are so similar? Because sometime you do need a push and it does no harm to you at all!
The funny thing is, such a symbolic occasion could trigger busy people’impulse, adding one more interesting excuse for everyone to find something to read. No matter these days are for spirit inspiration or marketing strategy, reading is still a happy thing for human being. Reading in modern day plays a role as a tranquilizer for the soul.
The Read A Book Day is a pretty new occasion, which appeared at early 2000s, with the positive idea to encourage young people to read. As all other celebration for readers, it is by no means compulsory although it requires readers to accomplish a small but challenging task: to grab a book and finish reading it in one day. Readers could choose fiction or non-fiction as long as they are comfortable enough to rest their soul in.
If you don’t have any bookshelf by your side when you are reading this artilce, don’t worry because you still have your computer, tablet or cellphone, right? You are not necessary to be restrained by print books, since E-book serves as good choice as well. We would like to share with you some short stories and collections that you can read literally in one day, or even several hours. All the following recommended books are free to read online from http://www.ficfun.com, a provider for online novels.
-Alone In the World, by schma10
The 14 year old Ben explains the entire story of his childhood: after his parents died in a car accident, he and Seth survives the horror of foster care system, until Ben pushes his abusive foster father down the stairs. Now out of prison, Ben sought to escape the clutches of the police, crooks, and liars to get to Seth and find a new life in California with the help of his late parent's old cop friend: Aaron.
-Baring My Soul, by Pratibha Badgal
This hit online science fiction online tells a story about a young lad, Nichole. Let’s save the spoiler alert and find out what destiny has in store for him online.
-Haunted Schools, by Yixuan__Uniq
Collection of short stories about all scared tales in haunted schools, terrifying you with the born human fear of death.
-Nicholette's Reign (Book 1), by H.M. Moktadir
This is a teen fiction about the main character, Nicholette Boyojek, a new young queen of Delladine, who finds herself in a battle of politics with the surrounding countries and her own cabinet members, after her father’s mysterious death.
-Shut up and Kiss Me, by Angelyn Hernandez
A romance fiction. Having been cheated for the fifth time, Abbie Collins wanted to believe that love wasn't really for her and then she met Jake Watson. She thought all will be flowers and rainbows until her father decided to be a part of her life again.
-Story Bazaar, by amzolt
It is a collection of tales, including nearly forty short stories like “Lost Birthright”, “A Wichy Brew”, “Home, Sweat Home”, “Loser” , “The Invention”and more.
If all the above do not cater to you every whim, please feel free to discover the right one for you on http://www.ficfun.com.，where you are able to find a bundle of completed novels and short stories. Of course, there have adequate stock for your future reading. And, by the way, the rewards of the first FicFun Writing Contest is about to be revealed so why not checking out the lists for popular books among other book lovers? You can also leave your comment to writers or share your reading experience with a good numbers of book lovers through FicFun’s official account of Discord.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
6 Simple But Super Effective Writing Tips
Take a look online and you can find a million and one ways to improve your writing. Everyone from classic Russian literature authors to erotica fiction writers have their own guide to being a writer. Much of the advice is easier said than done. Here are 6 simple tips that also happen to be super effective.
War And Peace Wasn’t Written In A Day
An architecture student doesn’t design a skyscraper in his first class and neither should you try to do so with your first piece of fiction. When starting to write, it’s important to start small.
Try a short story or even some flash fiction. Once you feel confident you can move onto a novella or a short novel. Eventually, you will be in a good position to write novels of any length you wish.
Get into the habit of starting and finishing a story, no matter the size. It will make it easier for you to get experience with each step of the creative process. More than that, it will also give you a sense of achievement when you finish.
You may want to write the next War And Peace, but it can take months, probably years. In the mean time, you will have nothing to show for your efforts and this can lead to anxiety and stress over time.
It is also not easy to direct and control a large novel. Think of a short story as steering a speedboat. If you need to change direction, it’s easy. Now think of a long novel as like the Titanic. It’s much bigger, harder to steer, and you are more than likely going to end up hitting an iceberg.
Start small. Get good at it. Have something to show for your efforts. Eventually you will be ready to write something bigger.
Too Many Literary Influences Can Spoil The Creative Broth
Once you have begun to write, it’s important to keep a clear vision of what you want to write and how you want to write it. With this in mind, try not to read anything too heavy while you are writing. It could influence you without you even realizing it.
Our literary influences can be stronger than we know. Sometimes their style rubs off on us without our knowledge. If you are trying to write some popular fiction books about vampires then you don’t want to be reading Anna Karenina. You might accidently turn your book into a nine hundred page allegory about the hypocrisies of the ruling class.
If you must read, then at least be careful to choose books that fit in with the style that you are going for. If you are writing some popular romance novels then reading some classics by Jane Austen won’t actually do you any harm. Who knows? It may even help.
The Early Bird Catches The Writing Bug
If you do a bit of online reading, you will find that most of your favorite authors swear by writing in the morning. It is at that time, when we first wake up, that our minds are at their freshest and most receptive to being creative.
It’s not only about writing early, but also about writing before you do anything else with your day. Everything you do, one way or another, is draining your energy and if you wait until the end of the day you may find you have no energy left to write. Remember, writing is not only about making the free time to write. It’s about being in the right frame of mind.
For most people, that is going to be first thing when they wake up before they do anything else with their day. If writing is important to you, then use this time to write.
Always Leave Something In The Creative Tank
There are few things more frustrating than having a super productive writing session only to load up your story the next day and find your mind is completely blank once again. You thought you had finally had a breakthrough. What had changed from yesterday to today?
The best way around this is to intentionally stop short at the end of a writing session. Even if you feel you could write more, don’t. Leave something in the tank. Save that for when you need to start again next time.
By waiting to write what you were going to at the end of your last session, you give yourself the chance to get started on a new session and by the time you have finished that you should have the momentum to keep going.
Get It All Down On The Page
There are few things more terrifying than staring at that blank page and to have it stare right back at you. It is known to have a Medusa like effect on writers that can last days, weeks, or even months.
That fear comes from showing too much respect. What you need to do is treat the blank page with utter disregard. Just write the story as it comes into your head. Include stuff you aren’t even sure you want in the story. If you have an idea in the moment, then bang it in there too.
Remember, you are not trying to write the final version. This is the first draft. Your objective at this point is just to get the whole story down on paper. I can’t promise any of it will read well and it will be a happy bonus if it makes sense.
I can, however, promise one thing. It’s a hell of a lot easier to edit a terrible first draft than it is to craft the perfect novel from memory. So what are you waiting for?
Take A Break Every Once And While
At some point or other, all writers get too close to what they are writing and go just a little crazy. You spend entire days rewriting the same paragraph only to end up at the same place you started. Other days you just stare blankly at an unfinished chapter. You’re dreaming about things that happen in your story. You start to see your main character in the street. It’s time to do something drastic. Take that story, lock it in a drawer, and throw away the key!
Wait. Don’t throw away the key. I got a bit carried away there, but do lock it in a drawer and don’t come back to it for at least a couple of months. It’s time you and that story took a break.
Imagine it’s like that guy or girl you really like, but you are trying not to show them. Just play it cool. You don’t need them. You’ve got other things going on in your life. Maybe you will check in on it again sometime if you have some spare time. Maybe not. No biggy.
But seriously, go away and read a bit. Work on something else. You could even just go out and enjoy yourself. You deserve it after all that writing.
When you do come back to the book a few months later, it will feel completely new. You will recognize things you didn’t before. It could be a simple typo or a big glaring plot hole. Whatever you find, you will be better off from the break and your story will be much improved.
War And Peace Wasn’t Written In A Day
An architecture student doesn’t design a skyscraper in his first class and neither should you try to do so with your first piece of fiction. When starting to write, it’s important to start small.
Try a short story or even some flash fiction. Once you feel confident you can move onto a novella or a short novel. Eventually, you will be in a good position to write novels of any length you wish.
Get into the habit of starting and finishing a story, no matter the size. It will make it easier for you to get experience with each step of the creative process. More than that, it will also give you a sense of achievement when you finish.
You may want to write the next War And Peace, but it can take months, probably years. In the mean time, you will have nothing to show for your efforts and this can lead to anxiety and stress over time.
It is also not easy to direct and control a large novel. Think of a short story as steering a speedboat. If you need to change direction, it’s easy. Now think of a long novel as like the Titanic. It’s much bigger, harder to steer, and you are more than likely going to end up hitting an iceberg.
Start small. Get good at it. Have something to show for your efforts. Eventually you will be ready to write something bigger.
Too Many Literary Influences Can Spoil The Creative Broth
Once you have begun to write, it’s important to keep a clear vision of what you want to write and how you want to write it. With this in mind, try not to read anything too heavy while you are writing. It could influence you without you even realizing it.
Our literary influences can be stronger than we know. Sometimes their style rubs off on us without our knowledge. If you are trying to write some popular fiction books about vampires then you don’t want to be reading Anna Karenina. You might accidently turn your book into a nine hundred page allegory about the hypocrisies of the ruling class.
If you must read, then at least be careful to choose books that fit in with the style that you are going for. If you are writing some popular romance novels then reading some classics by Jane Austen won’t actually do you any harm. Who knows? It may even help.
The Early Bird Catches The Writing Bug
If you do a bit of online reading, you will find that most of your favorite authors swear by writing in the morning. It is at that time, when we first wake up, that our minds are at their freshest and most receptive to being creative.
It’s not only about writing early, but also about writing before you do anything else with your day. Everything you do, one way or another, is draining your energy and if you wait until the end of the day you may find you have no energy left to write. Remember, writing is not only about making the free time to write. It’s about being in the right frame of mind.
For most people, that is going to be first thing when they wake up before they do anything else with their day. If writing is important to you, then use this time to write.
Always Leave Something In The Creative Tank
There are few things more frustrating than having a super productive writing session only to load up your story the next day and find your mind is completely blank once again. You thought you had finally had a breakthrough. What had changed from yesterday to today?
The best way around this is to intentionally stop short at the end of a writing session. Even if you feel you could write more, don’t. Leave something in the tank. Save that for when you need to start again next time.
By waiting to write what you were going to at the end of your last session, you give yourself the chance to get started on a new session and by the time you have finished that you should have the momentum to keep going.
Get It All Down On The Page
There are few things more terrifying than staring at that blank page and to have it stare right back at you. It is known to have a Medusa like effect on writers that can last days, weeks, or even months.
That fear comes from showing too much respect. What you need to do is treat the blank page with utter disregard. Just write the story as it comes into your head. Include stuff you aren’t even sure you want in the story. If you have an idea in the moment, then bang it in there too.
Remember, you are not trying to write the final version. This is the first draft. Your objective at this point is just to get the whole story down on paper. I can’t promise any of it will read well and it will be a happy bonus if it makes sense.
I can, however, promise one thing. It’s a hell of a lot easier to edit a terrible first draft than it is to craft the perfect novel from memory. So what are you waiting for?
Take A Break Every Once And While
At some point or other, all writers get too close to what they are writing and go just a little crazy. You spend entire days rewriting the same paragraph only to end up at the same place you started. Other days you just stare blankly at an unfinished chapter. You’re dreaming about things that happen in your story. You start to see your main character in the street. It’s time to do something drastic. Take that story, lock it in a drawer, and throw away the key!
Wait. Don’t throw away the key. I got a bit carried away there, but do lock it in a drawer and don’t come back to it for at least a couple of months. It’s time you and that story took a break.
Imagine it’s like that guy or girl you really like, but you are trying not to show them. Just play it cool. You don’t need them. You’ve got other things going on in your life. Maybe you will check in on it again sometime if you have some spare time. Maybe not. No biggy.
But seriously, go away and read a bit. Work on something else. You could even just go out and enjoy yourself. You deserve it after all that writing.
When you do come back to the book a few months later, it will feel completely new. You will recognize things you didn’t before. It could be a simple typo or a big glaring plot hole. Whatever you find, you will be better off from the break and your story will be much improved.
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Famous Authors Who Only Became Famous After They Died
When we think of the authors we admire most, we imagine them as having experienced successful careers and enjoyed recognition from their peers. The truth is that many of our favorite authors were not recognized or even published during their lifetime. We took a look at some famous authors who only became famous after they died.
Stieg Larsson
Lisbeth Salander may be one of the most iconic characters in modern crime literature, but we came very close to never hearing about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo protagonist at all.
The Millennium crime series was only published after its author Stieg Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004. Larsson had enjoyed a successful career as a journalist and he only worked on the crime series in his own time after work. He wrote for his own pleasure and had never really made an effort to have his books published. When he died, the three completed manuscripts were discovered and it was not long before they were released.
As of 2015, the series have sold over 80 million copies making them some of the most popular books in recent years. It has been adapted twice; once in Sweden starring Noomi Rapace and in the US with David Fincher directing Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
To say Steig Larsson only became known after he died is somewhat unfair, but the Millennium book series made him one of the most famous authors in the world. More than ten years after they were published you can see still people reading his books in airports, on the train and by the swimming pool or on the beach.
Franz Kafka
If you enjoy the works of Franz Kafka, then you owe a man called Max Brod a big thank you. If it was not for Brod, then classic novels such as The Trial and The Castle would have been destroyed without having ever been read.
Kafka’s influence on literature is huge. He basically invented a whole new genre of writing and his effects can still be felt today in some of the best and most innovative television shows and movies. It’s hard to imagine that he went unappreciated during his lifetime.
The Metamorphosis author lived a sad life. He had a strained relationship with his father, his brothers died when he was a child, and his sisters would be later killed in World War II. In 1917, he contracted tuberculosis and over time his condition worsened. It reached the point where it was too painful for him to eat and shortly after he died of starvation.
Most of the work that we have now come to know Kafka for were unpublished at the time of his death. He had entrusted his writing to his friend Max Brod and ordered that he destroy it all after his death. Of course, as we know, Brod ignored those wishes and instead Kafka became one of the most important fiction writers of the 20th century.
H.P. Lovecraft
These days, you can see the influence of H.P. Lovecraft everywhere from the novels of Stephen King, Guillermo Del Toro movies like Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim, and even computer games such as the Elder Scrolls and Warcraft. During his lifetime, however, Lovecraft found himself stuck in pulp fiction and ghost writing.
Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu spawned a mythos that has influenced science fiction and horror for decades. During his life, however, he struggled to support himself with his writing. To survive, he lived frugally from a family inheritance and the little he had spare he would use to send letters and submissions. In his later life, he separated from his wife and moved in with an elderly aunt.
Lovecraft died after a short battle with cancer in 1937 and it was not until the sixties that the horror master began to get the credit he deserved. He may not have lived to see how popular his work became, but we like to think that he is somewhere with The Great Old Ones watching our world.
John Kennedy Toole
It was a bittersweet moment when A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. That was because twelve years prior to the awards win, the author John Kennedy Toole had committed suicide.
The book told the story of Ignatius J. Reilly, a modern day Don Quixote who goes on a journey through the underside of New Orleans. Reilly and those he came across were the ultimate outsiders and Toole was an outlier much like the characters he created.
He wrote two novels in his lifetime. The aforementioned A Confederacy Of Dunces and The Neon Bible, which would be published later after the success of his first novel. While he was alive, however, it was the failure to get his work published that saw Toole slip into a state of paranoia and depression that eventually drove him to suicide at the age of 31.
Stieg Larsson
Lisbeth Salander may be one of the most iconic characters in modern crime literature, but we came very close to never hearing about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo protagonist at all.
The Millennium crime series was only published after its author Stieg Larsson died of a heart attack in 2004. Larsson had enjoyed a successful career as a journalist and he only worked on the crime series in his own time after work. He wrote for his own pleasure and had never really made an effort to have his books published. When he died, the three completed manuscripts were discovered and it was not long before they were released.
As of 2015, the series have sold over 80 million copies making them some of the most popular books in recent years. It has been adapted twice; once in Sweden starring Noomi Rapace and in the US with David Fincher directing Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.
To say Steig Larsson only became known after he died is somewhat unfair, but the Millennium book series made him one of the most famous authors in the world. More than ten years after they were published you can see still people reading his books in airports, on the train and by the swimming pool or on the beach.
Franz Kafka
If you enjoy the works of Franz Kafka, then you owe a man called Max Brod a big thank you. If it was not for Brod, then classic novels such as The Trial and The Castle would have been destroyed without having ever been read.
Kafka’s influence on literature is huge. He basically invented a whole new genre of writing and his effects can still be felt today in some of the best and most innovative television shows and movies. It’s hard to imagine that he went unappreciated during his lifetime.
The Metamorphosis author lived a sad life. He had a strained relationship with his father, his brothers died when he was a child, and his sisters would be later killed in World War II. In 1917, he contracted tuberculosis and over time his condition worsened. It reached the point where it was too painful for him to eat and shortly after he died of starvation.
Most of the work that we have now come to know Kafka for were unpublished at the time of his death. He had entrusted his writing to his friend Max Brod and ordered that he destroy it all after his death. Of course, as we know, Brod ignored those wishes and instead Kafka became one of the most important fiction writers of the 20th century.
H.P. Lovecraft
These days, you can see the influence of H.P. Lovecraft everywhere from the novels of Stephen King, Guillermo Del Toro movies like Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim, and even computer games such as the Elder Scrolls and Warcraft. During his lifetime, however, Lovecraft found himself stuck in pulp fiction and ghost writing.
Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu spawned a mythos that has influenced science fiction and horror for decades. During his life, however, he struggled to support himself with his writing. To survive, he lived frugally from a family inheritance and the little he had spare he would use to send letters and submissions. In his later life, he separated from his wife and moved in with an elderly aunt.
Lovecraft died after a short battle with cancer in 1937 and it was not until the sixties that the horror master began to get the credit he deserved. He may not have lived to see how popular his work became, but we like to think that he is somewhere with The Great Old Ones watching our world.
John Kennedy Toole
It was a bittersweet moment when A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. That was because twelve years prior to the awards win, the author John Kennedy Toole had committed suicide.
The book told the story of Ignatius J. Reilly, a modern day Don Quixote who goes on a journey through the underside of New Orleans. Reilly and those he came across were the ultimate outsiders and Toole was an outlier much like the characters he created.
He wrote two novels in his lifetime. The aforementioned A Confederacy Of Dunces and The Neon Bible, which would be published later after the success of his first novel. While he was alive, however, it was the failure to get his work published that saw Toole slip into a state of paranoia and depression that eventually drove him to suicide at the age of 31.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Fan Fiction: That’s the Way I Love Movies
The rapid growth of internet opens up fantastic space for passionate fans of hit movies, TV dramas, anime/manga and novels to create their own stories based on the original creation and share them with friends with the same taste. Especially when social media dominates the ways that people interact with others, it is highly encouraging when writers can receive comments, likes and shares, which would fuel more creative updates. That is how fan fiction, or, fanfic, develop so fast.
Furthermore, it could be a greenhouse for new era indie original writers. You will not be too surprised when an online novel writer reviewed that he/she used to be an enthusiastic fanfic writer before becoming original authors.
You can classify fan fiction into a separated genre, just like lots of websites of free online novels do. In fact, it covers all other genres at the same time. A fan fiction can be popular romance novel, free science fiction, a fantasy story or a crime thriller. It all depends on how the writer want to develop the plot and deliver his/her thought to the reader, or perhaps, friends. What is more important? It can be totally different with the original, which is exactly the irresistible charm of a fan fiction.
Generally speaking, you can put fan fictions into three categories. Some loyal writers remain committed to original works to the utmost extent, who purely emphasize and strengthen certain details told or untold in the original works. Some writers show a particular preference for slightly different story, in which they can match up different couples or add new story lines or characters for new adventure and romance, while still seeking a harmony of original spirit and new imagination. And, there are some free-style writers who are indulged in creating fictions in an “almost-original” way. I mean, this kind of creation features completely different universe and storyline, bearing only the existed name of characters and their respective settings specified and implied by the original authors. In other words, if you ignore the names of characters, you will find a real novel that you actually had never read before.
Putting aside of controversy in possible infringement on original author’s copyright for the moment, fan fiction is a positive reflection of fans’ love and affection on the original works. That’s the way how fans engage themselves in the dreamy world of the original works, let alone the possible publicity effect.
Fan fiction is an interesting kind of literature, if you don’t might I use the word “literature”. Although it is not too tough for a writing rookie to start writing a novel based on successful titles like Harry Potter, you could always find serious and good plots created by fan fiction writers. Some of them can really considered as high quality literature.
Now, you are ready to click in some site to discover a fan fiction related to some of your favorite titles, aren’t you? If yes, here are some popular and emerging sites for online novels created by fans.
Furthermore, it could be a greenhouse for new era indie original writers. You will not be too surprised when an online novel writer reviewed that he/she used to be an enthusiastic fanfic writer before becoming original authors.
You can classify fan fiction into a separated genre, just like lots of websites of free online novels do. In fact, it covers all other genres at the same time. A fan fiction can be popular romance novel, free science fiction, a fantasy story or a crime thriller. It all depends on how the writer want to develop the plot and deliver his/her thought to the reader, or perhaps, friends. What is more important? It can be totally different with the original, which is exactly the irresistible charm of a fan fiction.
Generally speaking, you can put fan fictions into three categories. Some loyal writers remain committed to original works to the utmost extent, who purely emphasize and strengthen certain details told or untold in the original works. Some writers show a particular preference for slightly different story, in which they can match up different couples or add new story lines or characters for new adventure and romance, while still seeking a harmony of original spirit and new imagination. And, there are some free-style writers who are indulged in creating fictions in an “almost-original” way. I mean, this kind of creation features completely different universe and storyline, bearing only the existed name of characters and their respective settings specified and implied by the original authors. In other words, if you ignore the names of characters, you will find a real novel that you actually had never read before.
Putting aside of controversy in possible infringement on original author’s copyright for the moment, fan fiction is a positive reflection of fans’ love and affection on the original works. That’s the way how fans engage themselves in the dreamy world of the original works, let alone the possible publicity effect.
Fan fiction is an interesting kind of literature, if you don’t might I use the word “literature”. Although it is not too tough for a writing rookie to start writing a novel based on successful titles like Harry Potter, you could always find serious and good plots created by fan fiction writers. Some of them can really considered as high quality literature.
Now, you are ready to click in some site to discover a fan fiction related to some of your favorite titles, aren’t you? If yes, here are some popular and emerging sites for online novels created by fans.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Most Popular Species in Fictional Novels
If you are free online fiction lover, it would be not difficult for you to find out that some genres are relatedly popular among all fictional works, for example, romance, mystery/crime, or fantasy. In fact, just take a look at all forms of literature, you will see that there is an interesting topic might be useful for new writers: species that characters in a novel belong to.
One of the most fascinating incentive for fiction writers are the power they could use to set free bold and unrestrained idea free, when they can create some characters that do not exist in real world. Some genres are frequently used throughout the history of literature. You can develop your stories based on these species, or, you certainly can create a brand-new one at your will. Just see how many wonderful creatures J. K. Rowling has shown you.
The funny thing is that, generally speaking, you can divide these species of characters into three categories.
The Dead: A lot of characters could be related to death, including vampire, zombie and ghost.
As in European folklore, vampire is a kind of immortal creature feeding on blood, and its name firstly appeared in 1734. However, it is not until 19th century when it evolves into the impression on people with a pale countenance. It undoubtedly a main role in literature, horror fiction and even romance fiction for certain kind of morbid fascination. Here are some online books telling stories of vampire: How To Be A Vampire by Alexandra Yang, and, The Vampire King’s Young Mate by Wickedwith.
Zombie is quite a hit keyword during these years, especially in horror film. It is described as an undead walking body of a human or animal corpse. It could be traced back to a poet in the year of 1819 as “zombi”. We are possibly most familiar with this reanimated species in the title of Resident Evil, covering video games, novels and action movies.
Ghost is a name rather popular in lots of culture background, including Asia, Africa and Europe. It is always in different regions’ folklore. The haunt, or the spirit of dead person is the origin of a horror or a sad story in novels. You can try the short story of A Moonlit Ghost Story by Lawinbabe Hawker, or The Elven Queen by Ariel-Aristophel.
Nonhuman Shape and Shape-shifting:Werewolf, merpeople and centaurs are all imaginary creatures with a shape combing human and animal or having shape-shifting power.
When you are talking about werewolf, a typical scene with a howling wolf under the moonlight might possibly come to your mind. Since medieval period, there have been some sayings about werewolf, in which normal human will transform into a wolf for reason. Maybe it is on purpose, cursed or infected. Werewolf0917’s online novles, including The Second Chance, The Forbidden Love and Some Don't Love Back are all about the adventure of werewolf.
Merpeople, or, mermaid (merman for male) illustrate the dreamy aqua world. But still, they might be terrifying or even aggressive like siren in Greek myth. Enjoying their reputation in Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia, mermaid has been appeared in lots of well-known fictions and fairy tales.
Another species you can also related to mythology is centaur. Centaurs are believed to social inhabitant in forests or mountains, and they are good fighters in literature and arts.
Divine and Magic: Although elves and angel are somewhat cliché, it is not saying that you can’t breathe new life into these keywords.
Frequently featuring in fantasy fictions and movies, immortal elves always enchanted people with their elegant appearance, surprising magical power of skillful archery and agile moves. You can discover them in The Elven Queen by Ariel-Aristophel.
Originated from Bible, angels could be characters in romance fiction or fantasy story, such as Nithya’s My Mysterious Angel and Xeng Moua’s Angel of Light
Everyone should know about Harry Potter, or Gandolf. Yes, they are both wizards, the species that we can save the time to give you any explanation. Though they are human being, they come with magical power as legends and fairy tales had told us. Black Water, Black Magic, a science fiction by Erica Striker, would be interesting online novel for you to know magic.
You will never produce a complete list that covering all kinds of species or creatures in imagination. That’s what readers exactly hunger for more interesting things to come. As a writer, you can make full use of the above, or totally forget all about them and go in your own way.
All the books mentioned above can be read on www.ficfun.com, a free book provider.
One of the most fascinating incentive for fiction writers are the power they could use to set free bold and unrestrained idea free, when they can create some characters that do not exist in real world. Some genres are frequently used throughout the history of literature. You can develop your stories based on these species, or, you certainly can create a brand-new one at your will. Just see how many wonderful creatures J. K. Rowling has shown you.
The funny thing is that, generally speaking, you can divide these species of characters into three categories.
The Dead: A lot of characters could be related to death, including vampire, zombie and ghost.
As in European folklore, vampire is a kind of immortal creature feeding on blood, and its name firstly appeared in 1734. However, it is not until 19th century when it evolves into the impression on people with a pale countenance. It undoubtedly a main role in literature, horror fiction and even romance fiction for certain kind of morbid fascination. Here are some online books telling stories of vampire: How To Be A Vampire by Alexandra Yang, and, The Vampire King’s Young Mate by Wickedwith.
Zombie is quite a hit keyword during these years, especially in horror film. It is described as an undead walking body of a human or animal corpse. It could be traced back to a poet in the year of 1819 as “zombi”. We are possibly most familiar with this reanimated species in the title of Resident Evil, covering video games, novels and action movies.
Ghost is a name rather popular in lots of culture background, including Asia, Africa and Europe. It is always in different regions’ folklore. The haunt, or the spirit of dead person is the origin of a horror or a sad story in novels. You can try the short story of A Moonlit Ghost Story by Lawinbabe Hawker, or The Elven Queen by Ariel-Aristophel.
Nonhuman Shape and Shape-shifting:Werewolf, merpeople and centaurs are all imaginary creatures with a shape combing human and animal or having shape-shifting power.
When you are talking about werewolf, a typical scene with a howling wolf under the moonlight might possibly come to your mind. Since medieval period, there have been some sayings about werewolf, in which normal human will transform into a wolf for reason. Maybe it is on purpose, cursed or infected. Werewolf0917’s online novles, including The Second Chance, The Forbidden Love and Some Don't Love Back are all about the adventure of werewolf.
Merpeople, or, mermaid (merman for male) illustrate the dreamy aqua world. But still, they might be terrifying or even aggressive like siren in Greek myth. Enjoying their reputation in Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia, mermaid has been appeared in lots of well-known fictions and fairy tales.
Another species you can also related to mythology is centaur. Centaurs are believed to social inhabitant in forests or mountains, and they are good fighters in literature and arts.
Divine and Magic: Although elves and angel are somewhat cliché, it is not saying that you can’t breathe new life into these keywords.
Frequently featuring in fantasy fictions and movies, immortal elves always enchanted people with their elegant appearance, surprising magical power of skillful archery and agile moves. You can discover them in The Elven Queen by Ariel-Aristophel.
Originated from Bible, angels could be characters in romance fiction or fantasy story, such as Nithya’s My Mysterious Angel and Xeng Moua’s Angel of Light
Everyone should know about Harry Potter, or Gandolf. Yes, they are both wizards, the species that we can save the time to give you any explanation. Though they are human being, they come with magical power as legends and fairy tales had told us. Black Water, Black Magic, a science fiction by Erica Striker, would be interesting online novel for you to know magic.
You will never produce a complete list that covering all kinds of species or creatures in imagination. That’s what readers exactly hunger for more interesting things to come. As a writer, you can make full use of the above, or totally forget all about them and go in your own way.
All the books mentioned above can be read on www.ficfun.com, a free book provider.
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