Please Don’t Do This — I haven’t polled editors to test whether this is the most annoying thing to do. This post comes from my own experience. When writers do this it’s incredibly annoying. Unless there is something I’m missing about Medium, we can’t lock you out of articles that you’ve submitted when we review…

Creating healthy bonds between kids and cats — Teaching Children How to Interact With Cats One of the most important parts of child-proofing your home is making sure your kid has respect for animals. A lot of people own pets before they have children. It can be anxiety-inducing to think your little one, when they get to their toddler years, might be a jerk to…

Helping your cat to stay calm — Traveling with a cat can be really tough. Fortunately, most trips are just to the veterinarian’s office and back home. If you end up moving and have to travel across the country with your cat, you’ll want to prepare in advance to make the journey as smooth as possible. …

Lessons We Can Learn From Literature — A Tale of Two Cities Spatialization in literature refers to the narrative space utilized and how language, temporality, and setting are all used together to define the story world in which characters, focalizers, and objects all share space. …

The Decision Is Ultimately Yours — For whatever reason, author JK Rowling has decided to focus a lot of her time and energy on questioning the rights, agency, and believability of people in the transgender community. It’s a weird hill to die on, but it is where she has placed herself. It is clear that she…

A quick overview of what matters in fiction — I’m going to keep this incredibly simple. The three most important elements of fiction are characterization, setting, and plot. Fail at these things, and you have a mediocre story. Honorable mention goes to conflict, theme, and motif. These three technically could be considered subpoints of characterization, setting, and plot. Here…

How to Help Someone Who Is Struggling With Emotional Abuse — It can take years to recover from emotional abuse. Dealing with trauma can feel like driving on a rocky road on the edge of a cliff — it makes you feel nervous and uncertain. The good news: with more people becoming open-minded to therapy, it’s apparent that individuals are becoming…

Gemini and Aquarius Have More in Common Than Not — Gemini and Aquarius are two air signs who will never stop talking. They’ll get lost in an endless feedback loop. | Source: Jack Sparrow, Pexels When Two Air Signs Meet Gemini and Aquarius are one of my favorite pairings. The two air signs are a natural match for each other. In astrology, any two zodiac…

40+ Tips For Meeting a Psychic — What Are Psychics? A psychic is a person who claims to find information through extra sensory information. A psychic can use a number of techniques to find answers to the world such as through dream interpretation, card readings, astrology, remote viewing, chakras, energy reading, and the elusive third eye. A lot of people…