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Imagery #expressions
The primary vehicle poets use to transport their readers to a new experience.
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The primary vehicle poets use to transport their readers to a new experience.
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Imagery
"That does not necessarily mean that imagery applies to all five human senses collectively. It merely means that imagery is the use of descriptive language that can be appealing to one or more of the five human senses." To clearly see an image, you want:…
Writing #tips from #fiction Authors
"Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too."
— Sarah Waters
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"Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too."
— Sarah Waters
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Top Ten Tips for Newbie Fiction Writers
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Top Ten Tips for Newbie Fiction Writers
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One: Write What You Know
There are stories inside us and even around us, dont let it go waste.
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There are stories inside us and even around us, dont let it go waste.
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One: Write What You Know
In my high school English class our borderline-highbrow teacher would feelingly repeat the above phrase after giving each assignment. "I am thoroughly tired," he would continue, "Of reading of spacemen and dragons and soldiers and knights who are baseless…
Two: Starting Out
How to plan and then begin writing..
Beginning your book is admittedly one of the most difficult parts about writing a lengthy piece. The best method to help spur the book along to fruition—that I have encountered as of yet-remains one of the most simple, conceptually: individual, successive chapter notes. While this concept may sound somewhat rudimentary it is invaluable as a writing tool, not only in starting the process with an informed ‘kick’ but it also aids the writer in keeping the plot on track (as far as where one wishes the story to go)... and lastly, it helps the writer remember to include all the important details and various tie-ins.
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How to plan and then begin writing..
Beginning your book is admittedly one of the most difficult parts about writing a lengthy piece. The best method to help spur the book along to fruition—that I have encountered as of yet-remains one of the most simple, conceptually: individual, successive chapter notes. While this concept may sound somewhat rudimentary it is invaluable as a writing tool, not only in starting the process with an informed ‘kick’ but it also aids the writer in keeping the plot on track (as far as where one wishes the story to go)... and lastly, it helps the writer remember to include all the important details and various tie-ins.
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Two: Starting Out
Making Your Sequential Chapter Notes: 1. Sit down. 2. Using either a blank notebook, computer word processing page, or a pad of ‘sticky’ notes, write the words “Chapter One”. 3. Under this title write out one-line details or phrases about what should be included…
Three: Characters 101
The Who!
Important considerations you must make to develop characters of your story.
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The Who!
Important considerations you must make to develop characters of your story.
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Three: Characters 10
The Who! Once you know what you wish to write about, how it will be laid out and from which perspective 'twill be penned, you need to focus on the WHO of the story: the characters, the Main Character(s) in particular. Here are some important things to consider…
Four: Writing Action
Not all books contain so much action but the things which happen to your characters act as a good stock does in a kitchen: it is the base of all main course recipes and the quality of it affects the flavor of the piece.
Some genres can only tolerate a little action, falling into the ‘enough is as good as a feast’ category. A few genres, however, like science fiction or adventure novels appear quite dead without a plethora of successive trials that the characters must endure. Then, there are the rare pieces which take a single bit of action and compile upon it, making it stretch out the entire length of the book, as in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
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Not all books contain so much action but the things which happen to your characters act as a good stock does in a kitchen: it is the base of all main course recipes and the quality of it affects the flavor of the piece.
Some genres can only tolerate a little action, falling into the ‘enough is as good as a feast’ category. A few genres, however, like science fiction or adventure novels appear quite dead without a plethora of successive trials that the characters must endure. Then, there are the rare pieces which take a single bit of action and compile upon it, making it stretch out the entire length of the book, as in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
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Four: Action
Here are a few things to remember when planning out and writing your bit o’ action: 1. Tragedy is a part of life; if you choose to include it in your book, remember that Tragedy is just like salt; it should be used to enhance the story, not drown out the…
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Michale Wolff
An American author, essayist and journalist, has written Fire and Fury (just released in 2018 and had been in controversy), a book that portrays a chaotic initial year for the presidency of Donald Trump. What's his background?
Name: Michael Wolff
Age: 64
Early life: Wolff was born in New Jersey to a father who worked in advertising and a mother who was a newspaper reporter. He attended Columbia University in New York and worked as a copy boy at The New York Times while in school.
The journalist: Wolff published his first book of essays, White Kids, in 1979. He was most recently a media critic and columnist for USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, New York Magazine and, before that, Vanity Fair and Newser.
In 2011, he briefly was at the helm of AdWeek magazine, but left after less than a year.
The author: In 1997, he wrote the bestseller Burn Rate, about his early dotcom company Wolff New Media.
In 2004 he published Autumn of the Moguls, about the decline of mainstream media that would occur later in the decade.
He was perhaps best known for his 2009 biography of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News.
Accolades: Wolff has won two National Magazine Awards, which recognize excellence in the magazine industry in both print and digital mediums.
One of the awards was for a series of columns he wrote from the Middle East at the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Controversies: Wolff's work has often drawn criticism from his fellow journalists as well as his subjects. Just before the publication of The Man Who Owns the News, Murdoch took issue with several parts of the book, just as U.S. President Donald Trump has over Wolff's latest work.
In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, reporter Michelle Cottle characterized Wolff's writing by saying that "even Wolff acknowledges that conventional reporting is not his bag." Rather, she said, "he absorbs the atmosphere and gossip swirling around him at cocktail parties, on the street, and especially during those long lunches."
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An American author, essayist and journalist, has written Fire and Fury (just released in 2018 and had been in controversy), a book that portrays a chaotic initial year for the presidency of Donald Trump. What's his background?
Name: Michael Wolff
Age: 64
Early life: Wolff was born in New Jersey to a father who worked in advertising and a mother who was a newspaper reporter. He attended Columbia University in New York and worked as a copy boy at The New York Times while in school.
The journalist: Wolff published his first book of essays, White Kids, in 1979. He was most recently a media critic and columnist for USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, New York Magazine and, before that, Vanity Fair and Newser.
In 2011, he briefly was at the helm of AdWeek magazine, but left after less than a year.
The author: In 1997, he wrote the bestseller Burn Rate, about his early dotcom company Wolff New Media.
In 2004 he published Autumn of the Moguls, about the decline of mainstream media that would occur later in the decade.
He was perhaps best known for his 2009 biography of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News.
Accolades: Wolff has won two National Magazine Awards, which recognize excellence in the magazine industry in both print and digital mediums.
One of the awards was for a series of columns he wrote from the Middle East at the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Controversies: Wolff's work has often drawn criticism from his fellow journalists as well as his subjects. Just before the publication of The Man Who Owns the News, Murdoch took issue with several parts of the book, just as U.S. President Donald Trump has over Wolff's latest work.
In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, reporter Michelle Cottle characterized Wolff's writing by saying that "even Wolff acknowledges that conventional reporting is not his bag." Rather, she said, "he absorbs the atmosphere and gossip swirling around him at cocktail parties, on the street, and especially during those long lunches."
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Name: Bob Dylan wiki
Also Known as: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Born: May 24, 1941 (Duluth, Minnesota, USA)
Bob Dylan has released thirty-eight studio albums, which collectively have sold over 120 million copies around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
Awards and Honors:
Noble Prize for Literature (2016) "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" Tarantula
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012)
Asturias Prize (2007)
Grammy Award (2006)
Grammy Award (2001)
Kennedy Center Honors (1997)
Grammy Award (1997)
Grammy Award (1994)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)
Grammy Award (1979)
Grammy Award (1972)
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Also Known as: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Born: May 24, 1941 (Duluth, Minnesota, USA)
Bob Dylan has released thirty-eight studio albums, which collectively have sold over 120 million copies around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
Awards and Honors:
Noble Prize for Literature (2016) "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" Tarantula
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012)
Asturias Prize (2007)
Grammy Award (2006)
Grammy Award (2001)
Kennedy Center Honors (1997)
Grammy Award (1997)
Grammy Award (1994)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)
Grammy Award (1979)
Grammy Award (1972)
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Five: Show Me!
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It is an easy phrase to bat young writers over the head with… but WHAT IS showing verses telling? Janet Evanovich gave us a good single-sentence example: "It is the difference between actors acting out an event, and the lone playwright standing on a bare stage recounting the event to the audience."
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Check Previous Tips
It is an easy phrase to bat young writers over the head with… but WHAT IS showing verses telling? Janet Evanovich gave us a good single-sentence example: "It is the difference between actors acting out an event, and the lone playwright standing on a bare stage recounting the event to the audience."
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Five: Show Me
Good fiction novels exist in a ‘Show Me’ state, as in the vastly repeated phrase: "show, don’t tell." It is a mantra that almost everyone's English teachers/profs eschewed often and then got all worked up about when this advice was flagrantly ignored in creative…