Word Count
Writers Talk About Writing
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
By Michael Lydon
Topic : Fiction writingWord CountWriters Talk About WritingThe Writer-Reader-Character Bond August 8, 2011 By Michael Lydon![]() Article Topics:
"Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine..." So begins the winner of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which competitors write incredibly bad opening sentences to incredibly bad novels. Read the whole thing, and the rest of the results, here.
Article Topics:BackstoryAuthors tell you what inspired their workJonathan Cullen, Author of "The Ranks of Jody Brae" June 22, 2011
During the 1970s Boston underwent a process of school desegregation which resulted in “forced busing,” where children from white neighborhoods were assigned to schools in neighboring black neighborhoods in order to achieve racial balance across the school system. My earliest memories were of boarding a bus in my safe and middle-class white neighborhood and driving through the blighted areas of Roxbury and Dorchester to my elementary school. On the way we passed run-down houses, boarded-up storefronts and empty lots filled with litter and marked by graffiti.
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Article Topics:Word CountWriters Talk About WritingA Writer's Vision: Eliot and Dreiser June 6, 2011 By Michael Lydon
Give anyone pen and paper, ask them to write two hundred words on any subject under the sun, and if they do, you'll get back a piece of writing brand-new in the history of literature and a glimpse into that writer's unique and personal vision.
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Article Topics:BackstoryAuthors tell you what inspired their workDeborah Noyes, Author of "Captivity" April 27, 2011
As soon as I read about them, I was drawn to the real-life rags-to-riches story of the Fox sisters. Two ordinary farm girls from Western New York, Maggie and Kate Fox gripped their community by claiming to be able to communicate with the dead. They became celebrities in the bargain, sowing the seeds of an international religious movement that would eventually claim a million followers.
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Article Topics:BackstoryAuthors tell you what inspired their workSusan Henderson, Author of "Up From the Blue" January 26, 2011
When Tillie Harris goes into premature labor, she has no one to turn to but her estranged father. Their relationship has been strained since Tillie was eight years old and her mother mysteriously vanished. Up From the Blue follows young Tillie's startling discoveries about what happened to her mother, as well as grown Tillie's struggle with a relationship that’s stuck in the past.
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Article Topics:It's time once again for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). As the website explains, it's "for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved." Visit the NaNoWriMo website to learn more. Article Topics: |
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