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Our chief weapon is surprise: December 2009
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Our chief weapon is surprise. A blog for writers . by Michael Little. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Attack of the killer cliches. Right after Thanksgiving weekend. But at halftime it isn't the Saints that Richie wants to talk about. Instead he begins telling me about what happened that Saturday night when he and Noelle went out to dinner. I turn the TV sound down and settle back to listen to Richie's latest adventure. So there we were," Richie says,. But Saturday night I let Noelle do most of the talking.
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Our chief weapon is surprise: April 2010
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Our chief weapon is surprise. A blog for writers . by Michael Little. Saturday, April 10, 2010. If you prick us, do we not bleed? Here’s a second question. That helps us understand how readers and writers connect. Last week we looked at the connecting power of humor and laughter (“if you tickle us, do we not laugh? 8221;). Now it’s time to share a little pain. Act 3, Scene 1 of. The Merchant of Venice. Asks, “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? Let’s leave the poison.
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Our chief weapon is surprise: June 2009
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Our chief weapon is surprise. A blog for writers . by Michael Little. Friday, June 5, 2009. In praise of small moments. There’s a short scene in. That nobody talks about much. It’s not one of the big scenes that everyone. Who sees the 1996 Coen brothers film remembers. Not one of the action scenes, like the kidnapping of the car salesman’s wife, or the sporadic bumbling violence of the two hired kidnappers, or the woodchipper scene and chase on the ice near the end of the film. Marge looks at him. 160;&#...
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Our chief weapon is surprise: March 2010
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Our chief weapon is surprise. A blog for writers . by Michael Little. Thursday, March 4, 2010. If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? This is the first of several questions I want to begin to explore, with the goal of understanding how readers and writers connect. The tickle question comes from Shylock’s speech in Act 3, Scene 1 of. The Merchant of Venice. In that speech is the common humanity of Jews and Christians. Shylock asks, “If you prick us, do we not bleed? We may n...
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Our chief weapon is surprise: January 2010
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Our chief weapon is surprise. A blog for writers . by Michael Little. Wednesday, January 27, 2010. A no-huddle approach to writing. Richie’s wife, Noelle,. At least I think it might be brilliant, although I haven’t told anyone about it. Richie and Noelle had walked down the street. To appreciate the no-huddle,. You have to think about the old huddle approach first. We’ve all seen it a million times. I think some writers do this too. Get on with the story, the readers insist. Only the Colts. They have...
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Our chief weapon is surprise: September 2009
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Our chief weapon is surprise. A blog for writers . by Michael Little. Wednesday, September 23, 2009. HawaiiReaders.com, a new site for readers and writers. New website, HawaiiReaders.com. Is out of the laboratory today and walking about in the Internet world. The new site ( http:/ www.hawaiireaders.com/. Provides a great opportunity for Hawaii's readers and writers to interact. My topics this week are "Anticipation" and, on Friday, "How much romance can you handle? With a guide to the Twilight. This is j...
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Our chief weapon is surprise: February 2010
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Our chief weapon is surprise. A blog for writers . by Michael Little. Sunday, February 28, 2010. JD Salinger, we hardly knew ye. Best known for writing a sensationally popular and critically acclaimed novel over 50 years ago, and for never having appeared on. Or pretty much anywhere else outside of Cornish, New Hampshire, after he ran from his celebrity, died last week at the age of 91. This news has been rattling. The Catcher in the Rye. The book's paperback cover promises. About six years later. By thi...
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Story-a-Day: Genre Guide
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Fiction and commentary by Katharine Osborne. Here's a quick guide to genres my stories fit in, in case you're more interested in a particular genre than others. All The King's Horse. Fantasy (as in fantastical- I don't write about dwarves and unicorns- at least not yet). Anthropomorphized Characters (some people seem to be polarized on these types of characters- some love them, others loathe them- so these stories get their own category). Dinner with Knives and Forks. The Curious Properties of Plate Glass.
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Story-a-Day: Finding Form: Analysis of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Fiction and commentary by Katharine Osborne. Thursday, October 4, 2012. Finding Form: Analysis of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The first book I randomly picked from the local library (Vancouver Island library system, holla! To me Not my thing. However, upon cracking the book open I was pleasantly surprised to find it written as a series of letters between characters, which is an epistolary novel, the low hanging fruit of fictional form (on my first pluck! October 4, 2012 at 10:10 AM.
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