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The Terrifying Part of Horror
The terrifying part of horror is often the nature of the threat. Perhaps only one lucky survivor remains alive through a traumatic adventure out of sheer luck. The terrifying part of reading horror is realizing how much of it is … Continue reading
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Tagged books, edgar-allan-poe, Fiction, George Orwell, horror, Literature, Ray Bradbury
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Do You Know What Polyandry Means?
If you are familiar with Clint Eastwood’s first movie, a musical called Paint Your Wagon you’d realize that a woman having more than one husband is not a recent idea. If you recognize “polyandry” as an ancient Greek term for … Continue reading
Posted in Drama and movies, Novels, romance, Story structure
Tagged book-review, book-reviews, books, Dr. Zhivago, genre, harem, Madame Bovary, Paint your wagon, polyandry, polygamy, romance, The Awakening, Writing
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The Happiness Requirement
“And they lived happily ever after” is not just a matter of fairy tales. A Happily Ever After (HEA) ending remains a favorite of many readers and has likely been one ever since stories were first told. In this age … Continue reading
The Language of Empires
Have you ever wondered why we have two words–who and whom–both meaning the same thing. What is the difference? These two words are different cases of the same [pronoun, which are forms which provide clarity. Even people who don’t know … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Style and voice
Tagged case, english, Germanic, grammar, Greek, languages, Latin, usage, who, whom
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The Imitation Game
You haven’t heard of Herlock Sholmes? Let me tell you a bit about him. Maurice Leblanc created Arsene Lupin, a well intentioned gentleman thief who aided the bumbling police in finding perpetrators of more vicious crimes. In France, Lupin was … Continue reading
Posted in allusions, Characters, Ideas for writing
Tagged Arsene Lupin, arthur conan doyle, Copyright, Maurice Leblanc, sherlock holmes
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Fiction from my Family Tree
One of the reasons that there is “nothing new under the sun” is because human creativity depends on our experience. But, I have only lived one life. Rather than writing an autobiographical series about a rather sedate existence, I would … Continue reading
What’s the Big Deal about Readability?
Today, writers rarely use semicolons, which provide a level of pause between a comma and a period. Authors have declared war on adverbs, forms of the verb to be, or filter words that identify a character’s thoughts. Others want to … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction in education, Novels, romance, Writing trends
Tagged Best sellers, bestseller, books, declining literacy, Education, Emily Bronte, grade level, Herman Meville, Literacy, Mark Twain, New York Times, Reading, Writing
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How Creative Do You Want to Be?
What can creativity do? Provide me with insight into yet to be imagined stories, allow me to develop amusing ways to express unpopular opinions, fill up my time when I am bored, or fritter away my precious time when I … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas for writing, Literature
Tagged art, artist, Creativity, engineer, graphic-design, stream of consciousness, Writing
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Imaginary reality
Everyone writes from their experience. That is all some writers ever do. Henry David Thoreau only recorded his life experiences. James Baldwin and Ernest Hemingway wrote semi-autobiographical novels in addition to non-fiction essays and articles. Hemingway’s fiction contains thinly veiled … Continue reading
Reading the lines… or the space between them?
Reading between the lines doesn’t refer to reading blank space. But, sometimes it is almost as difficult. It requires astute attention to pull out what is not explicitly stated in the text. How much should an author expect a reader … Continue reading
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