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Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-08-06 | Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg [Klinkenborg, Verlyn]

But you distrust your memory. You’re afraid you’ll forget the sentences you’re imagining. Why would you? They’re important. Write them down, just in case. And then go back to thinking—imagining ...
( Category: Fiction September 29,2014 )
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Mentor Series) by Provost Gary
epub |eng | 1985-10-01 | Author:Provost, Gary [Provost, Gary]

Even though delegate is longer than depute, it is better. Don’t write sclerous if you can write hardened, and if you have written that something is virescent, please go back ...
( Category: Writing Skills September 28,2014 )
The Breakout Novelist by Donald Maass
epub |eng | 2010-09-25 | Author:Donald Maass

Notice how many different tasks Case accomplishes in this passage. There is no action, per se. Father Azetti is sitting and waiting. That should be deadly dull. But Case makes ...
( Category: Writing Skills September 26,2014 )
The Creative Life by Julia Cameron
epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Julia Cameron [Cameron, Julia]

I am scheduled to have a piano lesson every Saturday at two p.m. Chaim is infinitely patient with my tortoise-paced progress. I look forward to my lesson and play through ...
( Category: Fiction September 25,2014 )
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Andrew Pettegree
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Andrew Pettegree [Pettegree, Andrew]

An unintended victim of this crisis was the Licensing Act, which had been due for renewal and now lapsed. The collapse of the Gazette’s monopoly led to a flurry of ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction September 25,2014 )
Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux

9 “I Must Keep Some Secrets” VIDIA SPOKE about finding me, yet my conceit was that I had discovered him. Both could have been true. Friendship is often a case ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
Fresh Air Fiend by Paul Theroux
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

Adhere to Marxist Leninism Adhere to the Socialist Road Adhere to Proletarian Dictatorship Adhere to Party Leadership "Do people repeat these things?" I asked a man in Xiamen. I liked ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
We Saw Spain Die by Preston Paul
epub |eng | | Author:Preston Paul

8 The Sentimental Adventurer: George Steer and the Quest for Lost Causes In early 1938, Martha Gellhorn wrote to her friend and mentor, Eleanor Roosevelt: You must read a book ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction September 22,2014 )
The Emperor Far Away by David Eimer
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:David Eimer

Part III YUNNAN – TROUBLE IN PARADISE The term savages, used by so many authors to denote all hill tribes of Indo-China, is very inaccurate and misleading, as many of ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
My Famous Evening by Howard Norman
epub |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:Howard Norman

I do not particularly delight in stories whose plots rely on coincidence, nor do I feel that synchronicity is necessarily a godsend. However, I can subscribe to the Buddhist notion ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 22,2014 )
Alphabet House by Adler-Olsen Jussi
epub |eng | 2014-08-10 | Author:Adler-Olsen, Jussi [Adler-Olsen, Jussi]

The house was not enormous, but of a standard that required a practised eye to appreciate. No detail had been overlooked, nor was anything exaggerated. A beautiful, discreet work of ...
( Category: Animals September 22,2014 )
Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana by Marcy Gordon
epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Marcy Gordon [Gordon, Marcy]

David Farley is the author of the award-winning travel memoir/narrative history, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town, and co-editor of Travelers’ Tales ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
Here, There, Elsewhere by William Least Heat-Moon
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:William Least Heat-Moon [HEAT-MOON, WILLIAM LEAST]

A military message? Something religious? Masonic? A riddle? A joke? His knowledge of history led Beetham to a different interpretation: the Elizabethan amusement of writing verse in code, often hiding ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )
Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric Newby
epub, azw3 |eng | 1998-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

The next day dawned, when it did, long after eight o’clock, wet and cold with a very strong wind and snow on the 2000-foot tops of the Caha Mountains. We ...
( Category: General September 22,2014 )
Departures and Arrivals by Eric Newby
epub |eng | 1999-09-21 | Author:Eric Newby [Newby, Eric]

* * * * Northern England, vol. Ill, 1970. † Thomas Sharp in the Shell Guide to Northumberland, 1969. ‡ Pevsner says they were built during the reign of Mary ...
( Category: Travel September 22,2014 )

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