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One Of Your Crucial Characters Isn't Working. What Do You Do? [Free Advice]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
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A major character, who's important to the story, isn't clicking...We asked some great authors what to do about this quandary. Eileen Gunn , author of Stable Strategies and Others: This is more a problem at the novel level than at the short-story level.
Tags: San Francisco, Point of view, Style, Fiction, Narrative mode, Narratology
The Red Velvet Turnshoe, By Cassandra Clark
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Cassandra Clark's book is a cheat – but it cheats in the way that most authoritative historical crime fiction must. After all, any attempt to recreate the speech (and thought processes) of characters living in the 14th century has to be a conjuring trick...
Tags: Clark, Hildegard, United Kingdom, London, Verisimilitude, John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster, Fiction, Literature, Narratology
Vanity book awards
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility 18 PST Want to win some props for your masterpiece?...The ceremony's organizers labor mightily to bring glamour to a notoriously dowdy industry, and no doubt the evening will be thrilling for both nominees and winners.
Tags: web sites, National Best Books Awards, JPX Media, usa books, press release, USA Book News, Los Angeles, Man Booker Prize, Children's literature, Fiction, E-book, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
2012 's Triumph Tests the Mettle of America's Headline Writers [Metaphors]
New York :: NY :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility When an apocalypse-themed movie rakes in truckloads of money, no copy editor on Earth, looking to top to a weekend tallies story, could withstand the temptation of the epic cataclysm metaphor waiting for them tied up with a box . But while the End of...
Tags: headline writer, New York, Word play, Che, Fiction, Metaphor, Style, Entertainment Culture
Review: 'Family Album' by Penelope Lively
Cook :: NE :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility November 15, 2009 BY M.E. Family Album, a new novel by Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively, is exquisite. Lively takes a broken-down country manse inhabited by a �70s-era family of nine and offers a moving story without (too many) all-too-familiar...
Tags: Family Album, Cook, Narratology, Point of view, Narrative, Penelope Lively, Novel, Fiction, Style, Narrative mode
"Kicking And Screaming For Science Fiction" Did No Good, On Publisher's Weekly's Best-Of List [Books]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility What do women authors and science-fiction writers have in common? A notable absence on Publisher's Weekly 's list of the ten best books of the year. PW apologized proactively for the omission, saying "We wanted the list to reflect what we thought were...
Tags: Linda Lowen, Maybe PW, science fiction, San Francisco, Cherie Priest, John Cheever, Women's writing in English, Literature, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Fiction, Entertainment Culture
Two Stories for Children
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Average stories come and go, but ones with a valuable message live on. The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, for example, find countless screen adaptations. One story among these fairy tales is older than any other, leading us to believe it contains...
Tags: Goldmarie, Mother Hulda, fairy tale, Coraline, Los Angeles, Hulda, Parallel universe, Stepfamily, Entertainment Culture, Fiction, Brothers Grimm
Interview with Michael Estepa, author of "Purged by Darkness"
Michael self published and financed his book releasing it locally in 2004. For two years he went around talking to libraries, youth groups, his old high school and book clubs about his book, gangs, drugs, believing in yourself, the writing...
Tags: michael estepa, purged by darkness, crime fiction, crime, fiction
Literary Death Match at the Verdi Club a Litquake Must!
So many events for writers are staged in bookstores or formal public forums - good for lectures and book signings, but hardly the kind of thing conducive to the sharing of creative expression; these events are great ways to learn more about an author,...
Tags: literary death match, opium magazine, todd zuniga, litquake, evan karp, Amber Tamblyn, paul madonna, david wiegard, drums inside your chest, poetry, fiction, writers
A novel named Wings, Angel's story
This is the first installation of a novel I'm writing, I'm not sure this site accepts this sort of thing but i believe there are some who will enjoy it. I was seven years old the first time I saw him, I remember because my mother had left me in her...
Tags: fiction, short story, novel, angel, dreams, critique, wings, installations, part, first
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