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In order to form a utopia, everything has to be perfect. Unfortunately, human beings aren’t perfect, and will never be. That goes especially when we’re left to their own devices. Humans are lazy, evil, greedy and any other multitude of negative synonyms going against a perfect, good populace. People in power – usually governments or dictators – will force their vision of a perfect world upon the populace. Choice will be removed, because choices lead to mistakes that lead to erosion of the utopia....

In this edge-of-your-seat horror novel, a four-hour flight takes a nightmarish turn when a supernatural creature gives a group of high school students a sinister ultimatum. Devon Marsh is haunted by secrets. Like the identity of the person who killed her twin sister, Emily, in a hit and run accident last Halloween, which Devon has vowed to uncover. Like the things Devon said to Emily just before she died....

Sometimes, the best climaxes are the ones that never arrive. This is especially in horror movies, where focus has shifted over the years from cheap jumpscares to creating tension through anticipation for a jumpscare that never comes. I personally haven’t seen it, but people have pointed to The Invisible Man as an example. On the other hand, while keeping the tension and stakes high can be very effective, it has to be done carefully....

NaNoWriMo is about more than just cranking out 50,000 words in a month and new content. It’s easy to get caught up in numbers and the very nice stats the website provides us, so here’s a gentle reminder that NaNo is more than that. Last year, I did NaNo for the first time, and it actually wasn’t too bad. I got around 15,000 words done, which was a lot for me and more than the ~900 words I had going into November....

While digging around their school’s backyard in search of an urban legend, Patsy Goh and her best friend Elena Tan are whisked back in time to 1987. Trapped in their mums’ 13-year-old bodies, the duo race against the clock to hunt down the magical time crystal that got them in this mess, before the evil Midnight Warriors find it and cause a time crisis that could destroy all of existence....

Discover what happens when one girl wants to break barriers in a sport dominated by boys in this exciting and thoughtful novel by the author of The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Mikayla is a wrestler; when you grow up in a house full of brothers who wrestle, it’s inevitable. It’s also a way to stay connected to her oldest brother, Evan, who moved in with their dad. Some people are objecting to having to having a girl on the team....

While writing a twin cinema poem this week, I discovered a new way to format twin cinema. While my way is probably not the most ideal for official submissions with font and other formatting requirements, it’s great for just initial drafting to get words out. Previously, I’ve always used Microsoft Word or Pages to format my parallel poems. It works, but it takes forever and I end up worrying about formatting rather than the writing....

“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.” Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb?...