Writing Skills
mobi |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Marcy Kennedy

You might want to argue that we should leave the history a mystery for the readers to discover as they go along. In many cases, you do want to hold ...
( Category: Writing Skills November 12,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-25 | Author:Judy Reeves [Reeves, Judy]

{JULY} Literature is an act of conscience. It’s up to us to rebuild with memories, with ruins, and with moments of grace. — ELIE WIESEL GUIDELINE 7 KISS YOUR FROGS ...
( Category: Fiction November 12,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Jane Curry [Curry, Jane; Young, Diana]

Even very simple headings can help guide readers. In the next example, headings identify the two key categories of actions to help readers respond correctly and promptly. Dear Mr. Knightly: ...
( Category: Fiction November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2011-02-11 | Author:J.k. Rowling

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Dueling Club Harry woke up on Sunday morning to find the dormitory blazing with winter sunlight and his arm reboned but very stiff. He sat up quickly ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-11 | Author:Renner, Jodie [Renner, Jodie]

Instead of three or four words => Use one or two in spite of the fact that => although as a result of => because came in contact with => ...
( Category: Fiction November 10,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Sarah Beach [Beach, Sarah]

SECTION FOUR – PROFESSIONAL SPECIALISTS I have often been frustrated by the fact that the seven traditional Archetypes did not always help me understand the specifics of a character (either ...
( Category: Writing Skills October 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Victoria Lynn Schmidt [Schmidt, Victoria Lynn]

King/Dictator Literary Heroes King Arthur Julius Caesar Long John Silver in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Captain Kidd Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick by Herman Melville King Lear in King ...
( Category: Fiction October 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-16 | Author:Stephen Fry [Fry, Stephen]

II Stanzaic Variations OPEN FORMS Tercets, quatrains and other stanzas – terza rima – ottava rima – rhyme royal – ruba’iyat – the Spenserian stanza A TERCET is a stanza ...
( Category: Writing Skills October 14,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-21 | Author:Orson Scott Card

CHAPTER NINE THE HERO AND THE COMMON MAN When the ancient Greeks and Romans told a serious story, the characters were kings and queens, great warriors and heroes, the sort ...
( Category: Fiction October 14,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Lawrence Block [Block, Lawrence]

The Beginner’s Mind / 123 If it’s arrogance that so often prevents us from approaching writing with the beginner’s mind, the source of that arrogance is almost invariably fear, the ...
( Category: Fiction October 9,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Betsy Lerner

More than a few writers whom I've met at conferences have complained to me that it's harder to get an agent than it is to interest a publisher, which is ...
( Category: Fiction September 29,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1976-01-04 | Author:Cleckley, Hervey [Cleckley, Hervey]

Kraepelin Schneider255 Partridge236 The excitable The unstable The eccentric The liars and swindlers The emotionally unstable The quarrelsome The hyperthymic The depressive The insecure The fanatic The self-seeking The anti-social ...
( Category: Authorship September 5,2014 )