1. Show Don’t Tell This is possibly the Creative Writing student’s most popular mantra. To write, Henry was delighted, is not enough. One must reveal Henry’s delight with clapping hands and squeals of laughter. In this way, writing does not much differ from painting. If one wields the pen well, each word can be a [...]
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9 Ways to Captivate Your Reader as Illustrated by my One Year Old’s Favorite Books
Posted in The Essays, tagged Children's books, Creative Writing, Fiction, Non Ficton, writing, Writing Advice, Writing Prompt on May 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A Silence in Words
Posted in The Essays, tagged blogging, Language, philosophy, writing, Writing Advice, writing life on May 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For two weeks, I have written nothing for My Inconvenient Body, save for a few scratched out sentences and a floating paragraph, now buried inside my journal. I think I needed relief from the first person chatter. After a while, it begins to nauseate me with its self-centered certainty. Yes, words have such stolid limits–they [...]
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