Sunayna Prasad

I don’t know about you, but my mom is super-grossed out by snakes. She has freaked out around them every time. A few memorable times...

Everyone who writes needs to revise sooner or later. Well, actually—it would be better if he or she waited until the draft was at the...

I know—you’re eager to finish your story or whatever else you’re working on ASAP. I get it. Many writers probably dream of having a good...

Many young children love to play make believe and use their imaginations. Some like to be more creative. A handful might like to make up...

Grocery stores usually sell un-fertilized eggs, although some do sell fertilized ones. We all know where eggs come from. So, when I was...

I know, I know. Many people prefer hardcopies over eBooks. Many writers and publishers will say you should have a hardcopy or paperback...

Three 12-year-old girls named Kelly Quinn (the main character), Darbie O’Brien, and Hannah Hernandez, find an old cookbook in the Quinn...

In 2009, I returned to writing fiction after a while of not being interested. However, unlike now, I hadn’t studied the writing craft. I...

Every character should have a unique voice. And by that, I don’t just mean speech patterns, words, attitudes, and so on, I also mean...

If you publish the commercial route, a copywriter in the publishing house writes the blurb for your book—that is, if your manuscript gets...

Every writer develops his or her protagonist his or her own way. Some are inspired by real people, which is how I think Lewis Carroll...

“Let’s have some fun in a cartoon world,” said Dylan, my nine-year-old brother. “Are you crazy?” I asked. “I found a special ball that...

Who wouldn’t love to see visual versions of their novels? Many writers dream of their books becoming movies. But only a handful of books...

I love to write fantasy and here is the advice people and websites have given me about worldbuilding. Speculative fiction includes...

I sat at the train station. Something moved on the tracks. It was nighttime, so I couldn’t see what it was. It might have been a rat....

Summer is coming, and my eighteen-year-old son is about to graduate high school. My twenty-year-old daughter is completing community...

Hannah looked out the window and gazed at the people on the shore across from her beach house. They played volleyball, swam, built sand...

As a writer, I have to follow creative writing rules and standards in order to please readers. As much as I’m okay with most of the craft...

I am not like many readers when it comes to reading physical descriptions of characters in books. A lot of readers dislike the author...

I stood in the classroom and observed the second graders as they presented different stories. It was my first time student-teaching. I...