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In 1969, Dario Fontanella Gregori invented a new ice cream sundae that is iconic today in cafés throughout Germany. He started with the standard tropes—vanilla ice cream, red berry syrup, whipped cream, and grated chocolate—and built something surprising yet inevitable: a sundae that looks like a plate of...
When your fantasy world is falling apart, who finds hope—and who embraces the dark?
The enemies-to-lovers trope has a special place in Fantasy Romance, offering writers a rich framework through which to explore character growth, tension, and emotional depth. This trope brings together two characters from opposing sides, often because of conflicting goals, loyalties, or even magical differences. But what makes this trope such...
Care to Speculate? Speculative Fiction Allows Authors to Flex Ultimate Story Control Spider monkeys rule the galaxy. Children govern societies. The Roman Empire never fell. Wait … these things aren’t possible, right? With Speculative Fiction, anything is possible. Speculative Fiction is a broad and diverse genre that allows writers to...
How Three Horror Story Staples Can Appear in Every Genre When a writer approaches the Horror genre, deciding to leap into the deepest pits of despair and crawl out of it dragging a kicking and screaming manuscript, they often use popular movies and television shows as inspiration. They try to...
