Ariana Grande has put the blogging community on notice. The “God is a Woman” star spoke out to publicly defend Justin Bieber’s performance at Coachella. In the process, she spoke out against bloggers in the infamous, now-deleted tweet: “People are so lost. One day everybody that works at all them blogs will realise how unfulfilled […]
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Why Fanfiction Should Be Taken More Seriously
The Hugo Awards, which celebrate the very best literary achievements in science fiction and fantasy, had announced they would be nominating Archive Of Our Own in the Related Works category. [UPDATE: AO3 won! Congrats!] For those not in the know, Archive of our Own (or AO3, as it is affectionately called) is an online compendium […]
Writing While Black – Expectations in Genre Fiction for People of Colour
I had a lot of time to think about Jordan Peele’s movie Us. I saw it with my sister opening weekend, and my initial reaction was…not favourable. I expected popular opinion to follow suit, but turns out I was in the minority. The film blew up the box office, becoming the highest-grossing horror movie since […]
Reasons You Should Leave Medium NOW
[UPDATE APRIL 2021: I have since changed my stance on Medium. Please click the following link for a more recent opinion on Medium –> https://sylviesoul.com/5-reasons-why-its-still-worth-it-to-write-for-medium/] Mine was a whirlwind love affair for the writing platform Medium. I first became aware of the site in the early part of 2018. A place that housed thousands of […]
Writer! Don’t Do it For the Money
When I was a child, my top 3 career choices were actor, writer, and mad scientist. After I realized the first and last option were probably not going to pan out, I put all my focus on becoming an author. In the 6th grade we had Career Day, and an actual author came to speak […]