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• Sentence Beginnings With Correlative Conjunctions
  With correlative conjunctions professional writers create hook sentences and hook paragraphs. As can be seen from the examples cited, correlative conjunctions may be used for both fiction and non-fiction.
  Published 06Mar2010, viewed 662 times

• Debunking the Myth of Show and Tell
  Although Lubbock's book The Craft of Fiction is seldom read today, the aphorism "show, don't tell" remains unchallenged. But what was fresh and novel then has become a new orthodoxy, an orthodoxy that has to be challenged regardless of the authority it exerts and the vast popularity and acceptance is has gained.
  Published 03Mar2010, viewed 217 times

• George Orwell: Writing English Well
  Not only did Orwell write great essays on the proper use of the English language, but he also wrote great fiction. His novels Animal Farm and 1984 --satiric the former and prophetic the latter-- represent what we now refer to as the Orwellian nightmares.
  Published 03Mar2010, viewed 437 times

• The Pleasures of Dialogue
  A practical rule for the writer of fiction: reserve dialogue only for the "culminating moments" (moments of high tension) of the narrative. While brief sprinklings of dialogue pleases readers, an abundance annoys, displeases, and loses them.
  Published 25Feb2010, viewed 363 times

• Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy: Good and Ill Fortune
  It is not in material wealth, nor money, or possessions, or fame, much less in the abundance of servants that the most precious of all riches lies. Boethius reveals exactly where.
  Published 21Feb2010, viewed 455 times

• Conquering the Inferiority Complex
  Adler --as opposed to Sigmund Fred-- believed that striving for superiority is the most basic human drive (not sexuality). Yet when we fall short we tend to blame others, we become victims of the inferiority complex.
  Published 17Feb2010, viewed 820 times

• Don't Count Sheep, Count Your Blessings: Cure for Insomnia
  A man in his 70s reveals his secret for youthful looks: The first four verses of Psalm 23 and a setting in Sherman, Connecticut
  Published 14Feb2010, viewed 414 times

• On Love and Fidelity
  Far be it from me to criticize Pascal, but I do want to add my own reading to his thoughts on Fidelity and love.
  Published 14Feb2010, viewed 267 times

• A Method for Self-Development
  Using The Past day to Find the Good: Being fond of Samuel Johnson's Essays, which I often read and re-read, one fated day I found some valuable remarks for self-development that he presented to his public.
  Published 11Feb2010, viewed 199 times

• Beauty and Strangeness: Poe's Ligeia
  Lord Bacon's axiom, "There's no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion," prompts readers perhaps to seek out the strangeness --lack of balance-- that makes a particular character beautiful.
  Published 11Feb2010, viewed 678 times

• Rousseau in Augustine's Shadow
  In this article I will focus on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions to explore his contribution not only to the genre, but also to writing.
  Published 09Feb2010, viewed 644 times

• The Power to Change Us: Stendhal
  Readers bring their own experiences to the novel and will present the novel's theme to their consciousness where it will linger and perhaps make them change for the good.This is the transformative power of literature.
  Published 08Feb2010, viewed 324 times

• Derrida on Writing
  Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2007), born in Algiers, is the founder of the philosophical movement called Deconstruction. But the object to this article is to learn how to understand 'writing,' as a metaphysical system.
  Published 05Feb2010, viewed 1296 times

• Nathaniel Hawthorne and Magic Realism
  If one considers magic realism to be a literary genre that combines fantastic or dreamlike elements with realism; that places fabulous narratives in a normal, quotidian contemporary world, then writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, John Cheever, Toni Morrison and William Kennedy qualify for inclusion in the magic realism genre.
  Published 03Feb2010, viewed 1375 times

• Erasmus of Rotterdam on Sentence Variation, Sentence Openers, and Ambiguity
  In discussing the methods of sentence variation by using allegory and proverbs —which at times result in enigmas— in his book On Copia, Erasmus recommends some things should be left vague, so that readers get involved and learn on their own.
  Published 31Jan2010, viewed 475 times

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