(Note: This posts also contains some spoilers for the Harry Potter series, the Hunger Games series, the Song of Ice and Fire series, and the Wheel of Time Series. This post is about death, and most fiction has it.) And now, finally, we’re reaching the end of my Divergent-centric posts, which is just as well, as I’d rather dwell on the great books I’veContinue reading “Death in Fiction: A Discussion on the Killing Off of Characters (Spoilers for the Divergent Series, and Others)”
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Plot and Setting: Why Bigger is Not Always Better (A Continuation of My Thoughts on the Divergent Series)
(Warning: Spoilers for the Divergent series and the Hunger Games series.) As I mentioned in my quick review of the Divergent series, the first problems with the story began to appear in the second book, Insurgent, where it felt like the author decided that the story needed to be ‘bigger’, and went about expanding it the wrong way, whichContinue reading “Plot and Setting: Why Bigger is Not Always Better (A Continuation of My Thoughts on the Divergent Series)”
Writing, Ascendant 