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Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons From a Writing Life by Terry Brooks
mobi |eng | 2003-03-04 | Author:Terry Brooks

* * * The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don’t change. * * * * * * ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 25,2014 )
How to write Science fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
mobi, epub |eng | 1990-07-15 | Author:Orson Scott Card

Novice writers continue to make this same mistake, choosing as the main character people who don’t-or shouldn’t-have enough freedom to be interesting. If the story is about a great war, ...
( Category: Reference March 25,2014 )
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?: Final Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya; Arch Tait
mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Anna Politkovskaya; Arch Tait

57 HOURS November 4, 2002 The last few days have passed in a feverish delirium. Moscow is burying the hostages. Today, just like yesterday, just like tomorrow. It is unbearable. ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Best American Crime Writing 2003 by Otto Penzler; Thomas H. Cook
mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Otto Penzler; Thomas H. Cook

He remembers. Timmy Titimski remembers the bully—his bully, the one designed especially for him, like a bullet with his name on it. I remember him, too, of course. How can ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
Once there was a war by John Steinbeck
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1958-10-17 | Author:John Steinbeck

MUSSOLINI LONDON, August 9, 1943—The ship was in mid-ocean when Mussolini resigned. Rumor ran among the soldiers and the crew and the Army nurses that something important had happened. Then, ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Screenplay by Syd Field
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Syd Field

We’re looking for the Plot Points at the end of Acts I and II. In The Matrix, the opening scene shows us that this is no ordinary action sequence of ...
( Category: Screenwriting March 25,2014 )
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2005-01-14 | Author:James M. Cain

I didn't go to the inquest, Norton didn't, and Keyes didn't. No insurance company can afford to let a jury know, whether it's a coroner's jury or any other kind ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Postmodernism March 25,2014 )
A Matter of Principle by Conrad Black
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Conrad Black

[CHAPTER TEN] THE FACT THAT DAVID RADLER’S counsel had withdrawn from the joint defence group indicated that Anton Valukas, his lawyer, thought he could really do something with Radler in ...
( Category: Canadian March 25,2014 )
Writing the Novel by Lawrence Block; Block
mobi |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Block; Block

Chapter 8 Getting Started Every novel has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. I picked up this nugget of information when I first studied writing in college, and I’ve ...
( Category: Fiction Writing Reference March 25,2014 )
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Natalie Goldberg

A Tourist in Your Own Town WRITERS WRITE ABOUT things that other people don’t pay much attention to. For instance, our tongues, elbows, water coming out of a water faucet, ...
( Category: Creativity March 25,2014 )
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-12 | Author:Jonathan Swift

They both unanimously entered upon this great work, looking sometimes on their coats and sometimes on the will. Martin laid the first hand; at one twitch brought off a large ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
American Language by H.L. Mencken
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:H.L. Mencken

2. THE ADVANCE OF AMERICAN SPELLING But such uncompromising defenders of English spelling lead a forlorn hope. Not only is there a general movement toward American forms in the newspapers ...
( Category: Linguistics March 25,2014 )
The Brick Moon by Hale Edward Everett
mobi |eng | | Author:Hale, Edward Everett [Hale, Edward Everett]

CHAPTER II CHRISTMAS MORNING And at last Christmas morning dawned,--gray enough and grim enough. In that house the general presenting was reserved for evening after dinner,--when in olden days there ...
( Category: Adventure March 25,2014 )
Mother by Maksim Gorky
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Maksim Gorky

CHAPTER II Nikolay Ivanovich lived on a quiet, deserted street, in a little green wing annexed to a black two-storied structure swollen with age. In front of the wing was ...
( Category: Drama March 25,2014 )

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