epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Thurman, Susan [Thurman, Susan]

Joint versus Individual Possession There is a way to use apostrophes to show the reader whether the people you’re talking about possess something jointly or individually. Take a look at ...

epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Goldberg

A Long Chapter on a Short Practice A Week of Writing in a Café Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. —WALKER EVANS, 1960 Sometime, ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Lee Child

18 I DROVE PAST ENO’S DINER AND ROLLED ON NORTH AWAY from town. The plain sedan followed. Forty yards back. No attempt to hide. The two guys just cruised behind ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Steven Harper

Although it's concise and direct, this actually is the weakest way. For one thing, you're telling the reader what the character is feeling instead of showing it, and it's almost ...

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, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Lederer

The answer, of course, is the dog in the second sentence: In sentence (a), the dog knows who its master is. In sentence (b), the clever canine knows that it ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Jordan Rosenfeld [Rosenfeld, Jordan]

"Do you?" "You have secrets?" I was surprised. ... "Unknown truths," my brother joked. "At least to you. Known to me, of course. At least in theory. What I know ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:William Noble & June Noble [Noble, William & Noble, June]

* * * 10 Persecution "Of all the tyrannies on human kind, the worst is that which persecutes the mind," wrote British poet John Dry den more than three hundred ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-10 | Author:Roy Peter Clark

In 2004 the Beowulf poet has been replaced by the likes of New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers, who writes a narrative account of the terrorist occupation and bombing of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Harper, Steven [Harper, Steven]

THE IMPORTANCE OF EMOTION Not even the stoniest Creature of the Night can operate without emotion. Or maybe they do — who knows for sure? If they do, I don't ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrews, Virginia

13. IK KAN NIET JOU ZIJN Het winkelen met mijn nieuwe stiefmoeder gaf me het gevoel dat ik in een wervelwind terecht was gekomen. Zodra we in de ene winkel ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2004-09-16 | Author:Chris Baty [Baty, Chris]

HATCHING YOUR PLOT This is the biggie. If there’s one thing that keeps most people from diving into novel writing, it’s an absence of the mysterious thing called plot. As ...