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Creative Writing - Getting Started -
kendralynn (32)  I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who struggle with creative writing. Writing is easy! Admit it. How hard is it, really, to stare at a blank piece of paper and curse at it until either your blood pressure shoots through the roof or words start magically appearing? You see? It... ( added 3 years 87 days ago.) |
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Jim Cherry Interviewed by Bill Ectric -
Bill Ectric (1,095)     Bill Ectric  I sat in a German restaurant called Uli’s with a cup of coffee and a big wedge of a delicious cake called “black cherry forest” and began reading Stranger Souls by Jim Cherry. I can’t resist this comparison: The short stories in Jim Cherry’s Stranger ( added 3 years 108 days ago.) |
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Book Review: America’s Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies -
ngoldman (6,396)    ngoldman   Title: America’s Secret War: Inside The Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America And Its Enemies Author: George Friedman ISBN: 0385512457 The following review was contributed by: Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and ( added 3 years 117 days ago.) |
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Comments From A Book Reviewer: Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman For the past several years I have been reviewing books for my own site, www.Bookpleasures.com , as well as many other sites. I am also a regular contributor to the Canadian Book Review Annual. As editor of Bookpleasures, I would like to make a few comments about book reviewing and what to... ( added 3 years 125 days ago.) |
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Walden review by Bill Ectric -
Bill Ectric (1,095) Bill Ectric 'Walden' by Henry David Thoreau is a witty, refreshing book about a man at peace with the natural world around him. Thoreau makes references to many varied subjects, and many different kinds of readers will find ways to relate to what he says. He refers to mythology, history, poetry... ( added 3 years 146 days ago.) |
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Robert Southey: A Lake Poet -
Bill Ectric (1,095) Bill Ectric In the early 1800's there were a group of writers known as The Lake Poets. This was because they all lived in the "Lake District" in northwestern England. They are usually listed as a trio, but two of them are somewhat more famous than the third. The Lake Poets are: Samuel Taylor Coleridge... ( added 3 years 146 days ago.) |
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Minn of the Mississippi reviewed by Bill Ectric -
Bill Ectric (1,095) Bill Ectric Minn of the Mississippi: Turtle On the River Long before my young attention span could handle reading the entire text of this book, I sat for hours pouring over the fascinating illustrations. Minn of the Mississippi, by Holling Clancy Holling, left a lasting impression on me. It wasn’t as easy... ( added 3 years 147 days ago.) |
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Tips for First Time Authors : 2 Easy Steps to Make Your First Book a Success -
Kim Dushinski (256) Are you a first time author? Do you wonder how to get started promoting it? Ever wish you knew the most common mistakes that other first time authors make so you can avoid them? ( added 3 years 161 days ago.) |
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A Writer's Struggle Against The English Language -
GinnyAA (190)   GinnyAA “How can I write something clever and bright When grammar and I do nothing but fight?" In the early 1990’s I decided to enroll in my local communi ( added 3 years 173 days ago.) |
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How to Look for Short Story Ideas -
Dino Manrique (1,168) So you've decided to write a short story, but are a bit stumped by one minor detail -- you don't know what to write about. Here are a few suggestions, most of them based on my own writing experience, on how to look for short story seeds, and how to go about growing them so that they can flower... ( added 3 years 217 days ago.) |
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How to Read a Short Story -
Dino Manrique (1,168) A friend of mine recently asked me how to read a short story. She asked me through text (SMS) message, and I had to think on my feet and give her a quick answer. Being in SMS, my response was short but I think it captured the gist of what one has to have in mind when reading a short story. This... ( added 3 years 226 days ago.) |
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The Top Five Epic Fantasy Series of All Time -
Will Kalif (9,800)  Will Kalif This is a list and description of the top five epic fantasy series of all time. I have left Lord of the Rings off the list because it stands alone above even these. The main criteria I used are popularity, longevity and length of series. There are a lot of massive epic fantasy series out... ( added 23 days 23 hours ago.) |
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Book Review: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Why It Is Classic Literature -
 - Rosanne O'Malley (123) A few days before graduation, an eighth grade classmate came to school with letters I and the other children had written to him years earlier while he had been recuperating in the hospital after a car accident. He thought it would be interesting to us to see the things we had thought and then... ( added 34 days 1 hour ago.) |
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My Route to Dante -
- Robert Gibson (187)  Robert Gibson Though we all know the joys of browsing, none of us have the time to discover all our literary treasures on our own without help. Recommendation must play a part. With regard to Dante's poetry, the following, so far as I can remember, is how it happened to me: When I was a boy my mother -... ( added 47 days 23 hours ago.) |
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Small-Town Magic - Familiar Community Life in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson In Clifford Simak's All Flesh is Grass (1965), the narrator, Brad Carter, describes his love-hate relationship with his home town of Millville: I stood there on the sidewalk, looking down the street, and I felt hatred for the town - not for the people in it, but for the town itself, for... ( added 47 days 23 hours ago.) |
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The Great Reason for Learning Italian -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Suppose that, like me, you regret lacking a classical education, and envy those few who can effortlessly read Homer and Virgil in their original languages - an achievement that normally takes years of intensive study. Of course one trusts that they are fabulously great writers and their... ( added 47 days 23 hours ago.) |
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The Good Haunting - Comfort from Reading Dante -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson I write in the spirit of one who offers to compare notes with other readers. This is therefore a personal essay. If you have ever been rejected or misunderstood (and who hasn't?), you may find as I did that certain lines resonate with a comfort that comes from afar and approaches near; lines... ( added 47 days 23 hours ago.) |
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Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Theme of Invisibility -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson The freshness of childlike simpliticy and naivete is something impossible to fake. An author who is in touch with his dreaming child-self will achieve effects which a more "advanced" or mature writer can never manage. One of these effects might be the repeated use of a theme, or variations on... ( added 47 days 23 hours ago.) |
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Planetary Intelligences in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Off the beaten tracks of science fiction, one of the interesting rarely-encountered themes is that of the 'planetary intelligence' - the conscious mind of a world. One may note in passing that it is in some sense the successor of the medieval concept of a guiding Intelligence - a member of one... ( added 47 days 23 hours ago.) |
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Intelligent Plants in the Science Fiction of Olaf Stapledon -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson The theme of vegetable intelligence has occurred from time to time in science fiction, but for the most part it has been vulnerable to the charge that such a notion is hopelessly unrealistic, belonging more to fantasy than to true science fiction. In particular it is argued that a plant species... ( added 50 days 18 hours ago.) |
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Intelligent Plants in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson The weeping, talking trees in Virgil and Dante suggest that the idea of communication with plants is of great antiquity, but only in the sense of transmigration of human souls into plants; the subject is not yet real plant intelligence in its own right. Then comes the transitional example in... ( added 50 days 18 hours ago.) |
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Creating Worlds - Turning Inconsistencies into Data -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Imaginary worlds are apt to be created over periods of years in an author's life. The evolution of the ideas can easily lead to contradictions. They don't always fit together properly. Fortunately, this can be turned to good account. Instead of crossing out one idea because it does not agree... ( added 50 days 18 hours ago.) |
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Elbow-Room in Plotting - The Example of Overgovernments in Science Fiction -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Governments are governments, right? A thing is what it is. But.... even in our world things aren't that clear-cut. The dons of Cambridge University, for example, might be hard put to it to define the relationship of the colleges to the University with any great degree of precision. ... ( added 50 days 18 hours ago.) |
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The Far Future and the Deepened Culture Layer -
- Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Severian, the narrator of Gene Wolfe's The Sword of the Lictor , describes his descent of a cliff: The past stood at my shoulder, naked and defenceless as all dead things, as though it were time itself that had been laid open by the fall of the mountain. Fossil bones protruded from the... ( added 50 days 18 hours ago.) |
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Review: CC Mandl's Bungi Gungi -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Title: Bungi Gungi Author: CC Mandl ISBN: 1422511353-2 ( added 52 days 4 hours ago.) |
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