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Without looking at your writing (which I can’t do), I can’t tell you why it’s boring exactly, any more than if you call up a doctor and tell her you don’t feel well, she can tell you what’s wrong with you exactly. The differential, so to speak, is vast. This is why you need someone — a teacher, friends, ideally a class of writing students — reading your work and giving you feedback. If you are convinced that your writing is boring, ask yourself a few questions: Are you including details that aren’t necessary to the story, just to pad out scenes and make them seem longer/more important?
“Joe got up and brushed his hair and then his teeth. Can be edited down to this: “Joe went to work.” Unless there is something remotely important about the tooth brushing, the breakfast food, or the locking of the front door, skip it all. Are you overstating characters’ emotions in order to make everything seem more dramatic? (permalink) Links. World. World :The Mortal Instruments :Home. Official Publisher Page. New York Times Bestselling Author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The Complete V.C. Andrews Bookstore: The Complete V.C. Andrews Library in Paperbacks.
J. K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall Reveals Dumbledore is Gay; Neville Marries Hannah Abbott, and Much More. Note: A preliminary transcript is now at the end of this post; please note that there may be some small errors in phrasing, and all questions have been paraphrased to save time; this is not a final transcript, but the accuracy of the questions and answers have been maintained.
Reminder: We are routinely deleting the (thankfully) miniscule percentage of comments that are hateful or intolerant. Debate on this topic is welcome but hate and name-calling is not. Please maintain the respect in this article that you all do in all others. Thanks. Tonight, the one thousand grand prize winners (and their guests) of the Scholastic’s Open Book Tour Sweepstakes along with a companion got the chance to see Harry Potter author J. A caution now. First, the biggest revelation of the night came when Jo revealed to her audience the fact that Albus Dumbledore is gay and had fallen in love with fellow wizard and friend, Gellert Grindelwald. “I do know what you’re up against and I hope it’s okay.” Eight. The Complete V.C. Andrews: Printable Complete List of V.C. Andrews Novels. The Infinite Jest Liveblog « TRADE PAPERBACKS. Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSo much fun you can’t stop When I’m done you can pick it up, but I’m not mailing this thing.
Introduction to the LiveblogDon’t Read the Foreword, pgs. xi — xviHamlet Sightings, pgs 3-17Wen, pg 4Pot Head, pgs 17-27One Who Excels at Conversing, pgs 27-31The Entertainment, pgs 32-37Keep Reading, pgs 37-42Orin and Hal, pgs 42-55Don Gately: An Introduction, pgs 55-63History of JOI and ETA, pgs 63-68Two Addicts, an Attache and a German who Kicks it Altschule, pgs 68-87Cloak and Dagger/Towels and Banter, pgs 87-127Lyle and Friends, pgs 127-144I Saw a Vision of Your Facetime, pgs 144-156Justifying Your Seed, pgs 157-176Anticonfluential?
Giant Golf eBook: Billy Knows, Oliver Prinz, D.R. Earp. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, by Mark Twain - Classic Essays on Style - Mark Twain on James Fenimore Cooper. In one of the best known critical essays in English, Mark Twain comically attacks the renowned author of The Deerslayer for his poverty of invention, "inaccurate observation," and "a word-sense" that is "singularly dull.
" Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer stand at the head of Cooper's novels as artistic creations. There are others of his works which contain parts as perfect as are to be found in these, and scenes even more thrilling. Not one can be compared with either of them as a finished whole.
The five tales reveal an extraordinary fullness of invention. . . . Cooper is the greatest artist in the domain of romantic fiction in America. It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins, to deliver opinions on Cooper's literature without having read some of it. Cooper's art has some defects. Continued on page two.