mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Jack M. Bickham

21. DON'T EVER STOP OBSERVING AND MAKING NOTES YOU MUST NEVER STOP working on your keenness of observation. Honing your ability to observe accurately—and to write down what you've noticed—must ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Frederick Busch

And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would throw himself back in reveries—tallied him, ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Roger Rosenblatt

Chapter 5 Writing Like a Reader Before we go on to poems—I had asked the students to write their poems for the class after this one—I want to take up ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-12-05 | Author:Costello, Victoria [Costello, Victoria]

TAKE IT TO HEART Memoir writers often find it useful to draw the physical layout of their childhood home on a piece of paper while they write. Try it: count ...

mobi |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Dwight V. Swain

In fact, intelligence is an element you might very well apply to the whole cotton-pickin’ business of techniques of exposition. f. The end of the beginning. Desire plus danger give ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-10-08 | Author:FRANCINE PROSE

EDWARD CASAUBON The marriage takes place, and next we catch up with Dorothea on her honeymoon in Rome, sobbing bitterly because she has just begun to understand what sort of ...

mobi |eng | 2007-01-30 | Author:Leigh Michaels

1. Look through the romance novels you've been studying. How many secondary characters are there? 2. Is there a villain? An Other Woman? A Wrong Man? A significant third? 3. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Deborah Halverson

Getting fresh with your phraseology A frequent flaw in the manuscripts crossing editors’ desks is clichéd writing. Characters roll their eyes, talk to brick walls, hope against hope, and couldn’t ...

epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

MISCELLANY: PORNOGRAPHY, PICASSO, AND APHORISMS I can see some reasonably deep moral questions about whether people should be free to create hard-core pornography. I’d vote yes, but let’s not assume ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Eric Maisel

road adventure scenario no. 15 road adventure Imagine that your character decides to take off on a road adventure (think On The Road, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Thelma & ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-10-17 | Author:Wendig, Chuck [Wendig, Chuck]

3. Establish That Shit Early, Then Reveal Gradually You don’t want to keep the reader in the dark as to the setting because it’s disorienting and disconcerting. Even if the ...