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Arts/Entertainment

Write Now: Musical, Literary Genres May Have Some Common Ground

In today’s culture one can listen to almost any genre of music. It’s a good thing and bad thing. The good thing is that a wide variety of music is there for listening. Imagine listening to your favorite satellite radio station with its subchannels. There is a vast amount of music to be ...

Thrilling Readers

Tim Tigner loves the creativity and self-reliance of being an author. You could say it’s what attracts him to writing. “I decided to become a writer because there was nothing I loved more than reading a really good thriller,” the author said. Tigner began his career in Soviet ...

Pandemic Poetry

NEW YORK (AP) — As the coronavirus spread in March, poet Ada Limon struggled at first to write, feeling “flattened and silenced” by a pandemic that had shut down much of the world she knew. “I could call nothing to me. I’d think of a sound, a word, a subject and it was all ...

Write Now: Try A Different Writing Space

We know that musicians and authors release their works as one big collection. Musicians release an album containing several songs while authors release books with several chapters or short stories, depending on what kind of book it is. Musicians sometimes release an extended play (EP) with ...

Socked By Virus, Comic Book Industry Tries To Draw Next Page

The pandemic has transformed Christina Blanch, owner of Aw Yeah Comics, into a nightly TV host. Nine times a week, Blanch leads a livestream from the store she lives above in Muncie, Indiana, to sell some comics and interact with regulars. She holds up issues one by one, usually for $5 or ...