Archive for the 'Fiction' Category
The story book We Are All in the Dumps by Maurice Sendak illustrates a visual portrayal of two guys, Jack and Guy, who encounter several challenges and end up rescuing a rather poor little boy. The story itself makes you think about several issues and symbolisms.
First, the theme of “life is unfair” comes out strikingly [...]
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Have you ever wondered, as you sit at your keyboard, if there are any secrets to successful novel writing? Well there are - and here are five of them. Remember these secrets and your novel writing will improve overnight!
To call the points below ’secrets’ is perhaps to invest them with too great an air [...]
Tags : novel writing,novel writer,novel writers,fiction writer,fict
You may well think that the choice of approaching an agent or publisher is academic before you have even finished your book but nothing is further from the truth. This short article discusses the pros and cons of agents and publishers - and which one you should go for.
A decision that many writers put off [...]
Tags : novel writing,novel writer,novel writers,fiction writer,fict
The crazy world of publishing can be a scary and confusing place for a new book writer, and it can be nice to get a little bit of guidance on how to navigate around things like writer guidelines, publishing houses,literary agents, and such. While most first time book writers think the hard work was [...]
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Writing a book may seem like an overwhelming task but it can be quite easy once you take the pressure off of yourself. This book does not have to be written a day or a week. There is no pressure other than what you put on yourself. And there is no sense of failure other [...]
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The flip side of the success coin is failure. In our culture, failure has almost become a taboo subject - and yet failure simply means lack of success. Learning from failure to gain the success you want isn’t magic - it’s called planning. In writing this is crucial, so let’s have a look at some [...]
Tags : novel writing,novel writer,novel writers,fiction writer,fict
Short stories have not always found their place in great literature. Thanks to great writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov and others, short stories have received great notoriety.
Short story writing is a unique art and vastly different than novel writing in form and purpose. Where novel writing is complicated, has many things [...]
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The short story genre is one that is thriving - but only in certain places. Where are they?
A short story can be roughly defined as any work of fiction below about 12,000 words. A greater wordcount tends to move the story into the realms of the ‘Novella’ or Novelette’, a niche in the writing [...]
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In short story writing, dialogue is very important for a number of reasons. I’ve listed a few below, not in order of importance - all are important - but to give a ‘points to ponder’ rundown. So - what about dialogue, then?
Dialogue can be defined as the interaction between two characters on a vocal [...]
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Have you ever wondered how some writers seem to have plenty of ideas to work with and others very few? Well, here perhaps is one reason why . . .
If you have ever listened to anyone say something along the lines of ‘I had this most amazing dream last night - but I can’t just [...]
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