Muse on Monday – April 7, 2025

I used to wonder, in the story Jack and the Beanstalk, how the giant’s castle stayed up in the clouds. What’s more, what did they do with their garbage? If they dug down, could they poke through the cloud or was it solid? The answer to all these questions is, of course, it’s magic so…

Writing Corner: Realism in Fiction

Realism in Fiction Does fiction have to be realistic? That seems like an odd question considering there are stories containing magic and time travel and other things you cannot find in real life. So really it depends on what you mean by realistic. If you mean, do stories have to be possible in our real…