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Writer vs the World

Writer vs the World

In search of beauty, inspired by literature.

Author: Sara

Sara Kincaid was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She grew up loving to read and write and spent a lot of her childhood dreaming up stories and imagining new worlds. She wrote her first novel-length work during her junior year of high school. Sara chose to continue studying the craft of writing and majored in creative writing and then pursued a master’s degree in literature. As a professional writer, Sara specializes in storytelling. She currently works for a local nonprofit and shares the stories of people supported by the organization, as well as the donors who make that work possible. In her spare time, Sara reads stories from every category and follows her own characters into new worlds, genres and experiences. Her writing spans literary fiction, historical fiction—with a thread of magical realism—and fantasy/speculative fiction.

Testing Character Strength: Storytelling vs. Appealing to Your Readers

I read an interesting article this week published by Bustle. The article, titled “Writing Strong Female Characters? That’s A Great Goal, But I’d Rather Write Strong Kick-Heart… Read more “Testing Character Strength: Storytelling vs. Appealing to Your Readers”

March 5, 2015 by Sara

Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Science of Cover Art

You’ve labored over the entire contents of your novel and you’ve agonized over the title, but you’re not finished yet. Perhaps one of the most important decisions… Read more “Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Science of Cover Art”

February 26, 2015February 26, 2015 by Sara

How Historical is Your Fiction?

To be…or not to be… Fiction is whimsy, falsification, storytelling at its best, constrained only by the limits of the writer’s imagination. But, when a writer begins… Read more “How Historical is Your Fiction?”

February 19, 2015February 19, 2015 by Sara

A Brief Look at the History of Punctuation

Since I’ve been studying the art of lettering, I find myself becoming more and more fascinated with the history of letters and writing. This is mostly thanks… Read more “A Brief Look at the History of Punctuation”

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 by Sara

Gothic Literature at Large – February 2015

It’s been a couple of months, but here is my latest edition of Gothic Literature at Large. I have found references to the Gothic in some strange… Read more “Gothic Literature at Large – February 2015”

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015 by Sara

Losing Our Roots: In Language and in Life

Who gets to decide what words are removed from our vocabulary? The makers of dictionaries, apparently. Recently, I was emailed an article published in The Guardian about… Read more “Losing Our Roots: In Language and in Life”

January 30, 2015February 4, 2015 by Sara

Thoughts on History Inspired by My Discovery of Alan Turing

The issue of school and how children are taught is something we see regularly in the headlines. I don’t have any children and I wasn’t educated in… Read more “Thoughts on History Inspired by My Discovery of Alan Turing”

January 22, 2015 by Sara

Happy Birthday to Mr. Poe

January brings the birthday of one of my favorite writers, Edgar Allan Poe. Thus, the first month of the year leaves me in a celebratory spirit of all things… Read more “Happy Birthday to Mr. Poe”

January 15, 2015January 15, 2015 by Sara

The End of an Era: Tolkien

This week I celebrate/mourn the end of an era. I list both because I’m still not sure which it is yet. But just like the Harry Potter… Read more “The End of an Era: Tolkien”

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015 by Sara

The Vampire Who Didn’t Take His Vitamins

If you were to characterize the symptoms of vampirism as an illness, what would you call it? Would it be a psychiatric illness? An auto-immune disease? A… Read more “The Vampire Who Didn’t Take His Vitamins”

January 2, 2015October 23, 2018 by Sara

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