I went to the No Kings 2 protest, and someone asked me "How did you become liberal if you grew up in a red state?" I reflect on my response now and think, "N.K., this is why you don't get interviewed."
Author: N. K. Valek
N.K. Valek is a writer raised through roleplaying. Be it live action or text based, to this day, she still loves pretending to be someone else doing something else, somewhere else. Bonus points if magic is involved. Actually, those are probably the only points.
Stumbling Through
A poem about clumsily pursuing every opportunity, hoping one of them holds the answer you seek.
Deleted Scene and Dialogue Tips
How you work with dialogue and dialogue tags affects whether your scene has "Talking Head Syndrome" or not. With a snippet of a recently deleted scene from my WIP, here is a short lesson regarding that.
Like a Cat
Badly written creative nonfiction from a cat's perspective that teaches their human a lesson about trust and moving through scary life moments.
Slapdash LOTR Character Themes
When viewing every interaction with Samwise Gamgee as an interaction with the abstract spirit of Hope, some moments in LOTR take on far stronger meanings than before. What abstract ideas do other characters symbolize?
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