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What Catches My Attention in a Book?
We are supposed to judge books by their covers or by the blurbs and by the author’s name. I have favorite books by authors who names I have forgotten. I willing to look at I work with and out of … Continue reading
Allowing Ourselves to Grow
Imagine entering a store to buy some clothes for the upcoming year. In the athletic section there’s one style of outfit and it comes in four basic colors that all go together. The same is true for casuals clothes, business … Continue reading
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Tagged Audience, book-review, book-reviews, books, Change, Fiction, Growth, Publishing, Reading Level, Tropes, Writing
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Names and Xenophobia
Imagine a reviewer whose major complaint with a fantasy book manuscript was the number of times that words weren’t recognized by MS Word spell check. This person even provided me with the total–all names of people and places within the … Continue reading
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Tagged Characters, Fantasy, grammar, historical, language, names, novel, pronunciation, spell-checker, Writing
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My Boring Little Life
What dark secrets can I dredge up to reveal that occured during hours of deliberating about the plot? If I promised to tell the audience the deepest secrets of my life and lived up to my promise, they would be … Continue reading
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Tagged book-review, book-reviews, books, Creating characters, Creativity, Fiction, Plot ideas, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing from real life
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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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Too Much Info
Humankind’s love affair with technology is not a new development. At the beginning of the twentieth century, advances in industrial technology were touted as the solutions to problems of crime, poverty, ignorance and the boredom of ordinary daily life. La … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, apps, computers, Future Shock, Information overload, technology, Toffler
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Vanilla, Chocolate, or Bananas Foster
Deciding which flavor of ice cream to order from the twenty types behind the protective glass is a matter of taste. But if you are trying to create a new flavor, it’s best to have others sample it before you … Continue reading
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Play the words well
Mastering literary devices is like playing an instrument – you must practice improving your performance by working on only a few songs at a time. So how do you practice? First, start with your own writing. Check to see which … Continue reading
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Pulling new genres out of the hat
The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of the sensation novel. It drew on melodramatic writing about the insane and the criminal elements in society as well as gothic and romantic genres. Romance and realism, which had been opposing types of … Continue reading
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The recipe for a boring book
Recently I read a description of a street scene which included the cry of a woman as she hawked hot banh minh. The very use of the word “hawked” which denotes selling goods on the street and banh minh, which … Continue reading
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