Mar2018 Articles

Character Development for Writers
Shiloh Adlar

A lot of people on HOL do not know that I love to write. I began writing when I was very young as a way to get a lot of thoughts out and to distract myself from the negative ones. Writing became a passion of mine since it was a way to escape the realities of my world. Playing pretend when a person is young is quite normal, but for me, it was a daily part of my life to get through many difficult things. I began creating characters in my head and stories about them. From there, I started writing stories about adventures they would go on, and I myself would travel on those adventures with them. [READ MORE]

I Want to Believe
Maxim Trevelyan

***Spoilers for Season 11 of The X-Files***

A show that I watched growing up is The X-Files, despite it being nearly over when I first watched it. I think I was nine or ten years old when I saw my first episode late night on TV when parents were away. I remember that I found the opening title sequence especially terrifying and even now, when I re-watch the old episodes, the haunting tune makes my hair stand on end. [READ MORE]

Chocolate
Shadow Gaunt

Chocolate. Chocolate with caramel, dark chocolate, strawberries coated in chocolate, and many more varieties of chocolate almost any of us can find in stores today. But chocolate wasn’t always how it is today. A long time ago, it was a frothy drink, which was, quite truthfully, disgusting. So how did chocolate come to the sweet we love? [READ MORE]

Cheese, Kicking and Eggs, Oh My!
Maxim Trevelyan

For the last installment of my Weird Sports articles, I decided to present the readers with a compilation of weird sports that I had no opportunity to write about before. So, without further ado, let us dive into the first sport, Cheese Rolling. [READ MORE]

Loving the Now
Shiloh Adlar

There is a very important message that I learned recently, and that I can sometimes still struggle with. I know I am not the only one who deals with past thoughts, so I thought I would share with you this little secret. [READ MORE]