What goes well with ice cream, a cold night, and a broken heart? A good romantic comedy. But don’t worry, you can definitely be a fan of the genre without those three requirements. No one writes rom-coms better than Nora Ephron, a critically acclaimed screenwriter, director, and essayist.

Writing is no easy job. It’s mostly a one-person job. We are our own researchers, editors, marketers, sometimes even our own agents and publishers. The good thing is, we aren’t alone. We have an entire community at the tip of our fingers. Tumblr is a blog website known to be home to various types of blogs from comic books, to gourmet meals, to random musings.

One of the most basic things we’re taught in literature class is the figures of speech. These are literary devices which create a stylistic effect when used in writing. Figures of speech play with either meaning or pronunciation.