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Mark Twain’s Rules for Writing, or Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses | How to be a Writer
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How to be a Writer. Resources from across the web to help you become a [better] writer. Mark Twain’s Rules for Writing, or Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses. Mark Twain gave us a great set of rules for a story, wrapped in a beautifully scathing critique of Fenimore Cooper’s books. A tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere. The episodes of a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help develop it. The author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his ta...
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Taylor Campbell | How to be a Writer
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How to be a Writer. Resources from across the web to help you become a [better] writer. Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing Fiction. Hungry for more lists of rules? 🙂 Kurt Vonnegut gives us these eight nuggets of wisdom (my comments interspersed): 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Don’t pander, or write down to an audience for money. Write every. Read more ». Read more ». Pod] Exposition done right, or how not to bore your readers. Dustin...
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Celebrated annually during the first full week in October. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Press Release for Great Books Week. Tag Archives: great books week. Pride and Prejudice 200th Anniversary: Great Books Week 2013. October 7, 2013. It’s time once again to celebrate Great Books Week with Excellence in Literature. Download the poster as a PDF: great-books-week-2013. Here’s an introduction to P&P from the Jane Austen module in the. Volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum:.
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Posts Tagged ‘poem’. National Poetry Month 2011- There are Things to Do. April 25th, 2011. Although April is almost over, I wanted to mention National Poetry Month. I love poetry, with its catlike way of settling into your space with never a by-your-leave or may I. Poetry– if you get the right sort, that is– clings to your mind like orange cat hair on a black skirt. If you haven’t yet found the poetry that stirs your soul, sign up for a daily poem e-mail or RSS feed from Poets.org. November 23rd, 2010.
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Archive for the ‘writers’ Category. Five Reasons to Go To A Writers Conference. October 11th, 2010. I enjoyed the James River Writers. Whether you’re an established writer or just getting started, a writers conference is a great place to be. Here are five good reasons to go:. Meet agents, editors, and publishers, and maybe even pitch your ideas to them. Conferences are one of the few times you can catch them away from Mt. Olympus. Learn about the business end of being a writer. It. A business, you know!
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Posts Tagged ‘poetry’. National Poetry Month 2011- There are Things to Do. April 25th, 2011. Although April is almost over, I wanted to mention National Poetry Month. I love poetry, with its catlike way of settling into your space with never a by-your-leave or may I. Poetry– if you get the right sort, that is– clings to your mind like orange cat hair on a black skirt. If you haven’t yet found the poetry that stirs your soul, sign up for a daily poem e-mail or RSS feed from Poets.org. On What You Think is...
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Archive for the ‘Classics’ Category. Deciding How Peeved to Be Over New Huck Finn Edition. January 6th, 2011. By Mark Twain is a classic. Okay, that gets us past the obvious part. What does that mean? Here’s an except from the definition provided by my desktop dictionary widget:. Judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. A classic novel a classic car. Remarkably and instructively typical. I had all the classic symptoms of flu. His books have become classics.
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Words Matter Week 2011 Day 5: Most Captivating Writer | Words Into Books
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Words Matter Week 2011 Day 5: Most Captivating Writer. March 11th, 2011. Words, like moths, are captured by writers who pin them to the page in various forms. What writer’s work most deftly captivates you? Difficult, difficult choice. However, I think I’ll go with Emily Dickinson. Whose poetry captivated me from the very first encounter. Here are a few favorites:. Are you Nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us? They’d advertise you know! How dreary to be Somebody! How public like a Frog. National Poetry M...
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Places/Conferences | Words Into Books
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Archive for the ‘Places/Conferences’ Category. Five Reasons to Go To A Writers Conference. October 11th, 2010. I enjoyed the James River Writers. Whether you’re an established writer or just getting started, a writers conference is a great place to be. Here are five good reasons to go:. Meet agents, editors, and publishers, and maybe even pitch your ideas to them. Conferences are one of the few times you can catch them away from Mt. Olympus. Learn about the business end of being a writer. It. Willingly a...
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing Fiction | How to be a Writer
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How to be a Writer. Resources from across the web to help you become a [better] writer. Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing Fiction. Hungry for more lists of rules? Kurt Vonnegut gives us these eight nuggets of wisdom (my comments interspersed):. 1 Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2 Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Dan wrote an essay. On this very topic, for John Scalzi’s Big Idea series. Read and. Don’t s...
