One of the things about writing that most authors tend to pay attention to is word count. Word count indicates a number of things. When it comes to fiction, the word count numbers tend to indicate what category of fiction the writing belongs to. Micro fiction: 5 - 350 words. Children's picture books: 400 - 800 words Flash fiction: 500 -1,000 words Short story: 1,500 - 5000 words Novellas: 10,000 - 50,000 words Middle grade fiction: 20,000 - 55,000 words Young adult novel: 50,

In recent years, there has been a rather obnoxious trend in movies and TV shows when it comes to established intellectual properties (IP). If you've read the title, you already know where I'm going with this. The trend is for writers of these movies and TV shows wanting to subvert the expectations of the audience when they're writing the latest adaptation of an existing property, whether it be a movie, TV show, or book series. More often than not, that subversion ends up invo

I recently participated in a few discussions in regard to the word "woke". Frankly, I hate the term (for no other reason than the fact that it's grammatically incorrect. It's a past-tense verb, not an adjective.) I have since seen some lines being drawn by other authors. But here's the thing. There are a number of twisting of arguments being used here. When someone is critical of "woke", the vast majority of the time, it's a criticism of the practices associated with word in