Katlyn Roberts
How Frankenstein was Born- Mary Shelley’s Brilliant, Famous, Tragic Parents
Inventing the Sci-Fi genre at age 18 required a radical upbringing. This all started because my sister bought me a stunning, green and...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Oct 4, 2022
- 8 min
Sagrada Familia: The Divine Creative Freedom of Architect Antoni Gaudí
A celebration of science and spirit. I’ve started a little tradition for myself. I never leave La Sagrada Familia Cathedral without...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Sep 23, 2022
- 7 min
The First Recorded Same-Sex Couple in History
OMG, they were tomb-mates I’m going to rip the bandaid off real quick here by letting all my gaybies know that there is significant (as...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Sep 13, 2022
- 9 min
How the Concept of Pain Has Changed Throughout History
And why you feel like an a-hole for complaining about it now. Churches in Europe are on a whole other level, man. And yet I’m somehow...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Sep 8, 2022
- 9 min
How Religious Belief in a Soul’s Potential Diminishes After Birth
And why it matters in the age of anti-abortion, nuclear threats, and civil rights As long as I’ve been alive, my family’s told the same...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Aug 9, 2022
- 5 min
I Was an Overnight Medium Success Story
Please allow me to update you on "My Incredible Success" I made $613.11 in my first consistent month as a paid contributor due to two...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Aug 3, 2022
- 8 min
In Your Writing, Be the Bad Guy
The trickster archetype narrator and how to utilize it. “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jul 20, 2022
- 7 min
Impressionist Writing in Monet's Gardens
A travel writing exercise and fan cross-over Woman in the Garden This piece is going to be different from my usual historical pieces....
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Katlyn Roberts
- Dec 29, 2020
- 12 min
What Happens to Our Love When It’s Filtered Through Grief
Processing 2020 in a cemetery so you don’t have to. A few weeks after the presidential election was called back in my home country, the...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Oct 23, 2020
- 13 min
Call Wage Theft What It Is: Part-Time Slavery
The history behind America’s billion-dollar wage theft problem and how to fight it. Hardly any of the bus drivers at the tour companies I...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Oct 23, 2020
- 11 min
A Shift in Space-Time: How to Find Your Pace in a Pandemic
Why time flies when society comes undone. This pandemic is shaking us to our foundations. It’s literally forcing us to reconsider both...
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Katlyn Roberts
- May 15, 2020
- 9 min
To Understand Our Scary World, Read About Fire-Breathing Dragons
What a princess, a knight, and an evil dragon can teach us about Covid-19. We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
Mark Twain vs. the Emperor of the United States
The story of an Americana darling and his living shadow. I’m mad at Mark Twain right now. If you follow along with my writing (and you...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jan 24, 2020
- 3 min
Boobies, Conquistadors, and Other Things We Put up on Pedestals
What’s more interesting than the history a public statue represents? How that statue got there in the first place. It occurs to me that I...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jan 19, 2020
- 8 min
How to Keep Online Readers Engaged in Long Articles
Check in with your audience and avoid shouting into the void. According to a study by Microsoft, humans now have an attention span of...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
Depression’s a Funny Little Bugger…
How to coax your creativity out when it wants to crawl inside a hole. So, my “Top Humor Writer” status has gone away since I started...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Jan 19, 2020
- 3 min
Your Archetypes Want a Word With You
You’ve got some old beliefs and thought patterns that need shifting. I recently wrote that I’d decided to read all 72 books from a...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
Go to Porto for the Best Existential Crisis of Your Life
Legacy can be slippery... I had an existential crisis in Porto, Portugal and, I don’t want to blame specific people, but J.K. Rowling,...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
Travel Writing: 7 Tips To Captivate Your Readers
Ok, I know I’ve lost your trust with several of my previous listicles. You thought you were gonna get real tips on how to be a freelance...
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Katlyn Roberts
- Oct 8, 2019
- 4 min
Finding Meaning After a Breakup — Through Literature
The place before you've found the point. I’m going through a breakup right now. I’ve written about how to have a good breakup before and,...
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