mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:John Gardner

or In the so-called periodic sentence, highly recommended by high-school English teachers, the most interesting or important thing in the sentence is pushed into the final slot, as in "Down ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Sammie Justesen

Internal monologues Revealing a character’s thoughts with internal monologues is another way to build tension and suspense. Like movies, books allow the reader to climb inside someone else’s brain. If ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-08 | Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]

Whether your approach is structured or intuitive, you will have to discover form in your novel. As I said before, the novel is an accumulation of many stories coming together ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2006-07-25 | Author:Alison Kent

The Very First Time A virgin in an erotic romance? Why not? Being a virgin does not mean a character is uninterested in sex. All it means is that he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-21 | Author:Leonard, Elmore [Elmore, Leonard,]

USE REGIONAL DIALECT, PATOIS, SPARINGLY Once you start spelling words in dialogue phonetically and loading the page with apostrophes, you won't be able to stop. Notice the way Annie Proulx ...

epub |eng | 2002-03-29 | Author:Spencer, Stuart [Spencer, Stuart]

SYMPATHY Shakespeare’s Richard III is one of the most unpleasant characters in literature. Unless you also happen to be a ruthless murderer and plunderer, you probably do not find yourself ...

epub |eng | 1999-12-27 | Author:Cameron, Julia [Cameron, Julia]

Think of this tool as a private resume. It will help point you in directions that have genuine meaning in your own value system. This tool is a potent defense ...

epub |eng | 2004-10-06 | Author:Bell, James Scott [Bell, James Scott]

Determine the take-home value for your novel, and put it into one line. This can be done at any stage of your plotting. If you do it early, keep it ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Edgerton, Les [Edgerton, Les]

Vocabulary Although tone is the most important component of voice, the element that is responsible for more writers being “writerly” is the vocabulary they utilize in their writing. While the ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Gerke, Jeff [Gerke, Jeff]

TONE The last aspect of establishing the normal of your story is to set the tone. Occasionally I read unpublished manuscripts that mislead the reader as to the book’s tone. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

C.S.: By that broad a definition, we could even call The Decameron a novel! All of its stories are connected by the same theme of love and told by the ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:James Wood [Wood, James]

80 In fact, the ubiquitous flat character of the English novel, from Mr. Collins to Charles Ryder’s father, tells us something deep about the dialectic of British reticence and sociability, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-08 | Author:Girard, Dara [Girard, Dara]

Typos in the correspondence. Promises to make you a “star.” Everyone likes to get his ego stroked, scam artists know this. Doesn’t submit your work. Sends you form rejection letters. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Kathy Lynn Emerson [Emerson, Kathy Lynn]

At the final revision stage, I usually drive myself crazy with details — not just playing with word choices and trying to cut down on repetitious words, but also searching ...

epub, mobi |zho | 2011-04-28 | Author:Jessica Morrell [Morrell, Jessica]

When a sociopath is also a criminal or achieves power, the results are incendiary and tragic, as Ted Bundy's murder sprees prove. The despots from Pol Pot to Hitler who ...