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(More) tips for writing well (Austin Govella at Thinking and Making)

Updated Wed, Jul 8, 2009. As an editor, I’ve noticed several recurring bad habits you heathens would do well to disabuse yourselves of immediately. Almost without exception, these bad habits instantiate themselves as a series of stock phrases and constructions that reflect a lack of focus, a lack of fully developed argument, or the kind of intellectual laziness that sets in as you slog through your first draft. These things happen, That’s ok. Editing helps you save yourselves from these offenses before your thoughts hit the world and everyone knows your dirty secrets. but you can edit yourself, and you should. 16 things to check when you edit. SO MUCH TO TELL YOU: the 100 club.

Metazen. The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, Балет-феерия / Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya; French: Casse-Noisette, ballet-féerie) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71).

The Nutcracker

The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera, Iolanta.[1] Although the original production was not a success, the twenty-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. Composition[edit] History[edit] St. The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, Iolanta, on 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1892, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. The first performance of The Nutcracker was not deemed a success.[9] The reaction to the dancers themselves was ambivalent. Subsequent productions[edit] That which is restrictive « Sentence first. This is quite a long post about a distinction some people make between that and which as relative pronouns — an oft-disputed point of English usage.

That which is restrictive « Sentence first

Feel free to skip ahead if you’re familiar with the territory. Restrictive clauses (aka defining or integrated relative clauses) provide information that’s essential to a sentence. Take this one: Substitute damn every time you're inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and ..... - Mark Twain. 29 ways to stay creative. Children of Lir. H.R.

Children of Lir

Millar's illustration of "Lêr and the Swans", 1905. Swan. Etymology and terminology[edit] The word swan is derived from Old English swan, akin to the German Schwan and Dutch zwaan and Swedish svan, in turn derived from Indo-European root *swen (to sound, to sing).[1] Young swans are known as swanlings or as cygnets, from Greek κύκνος, kýknos and from the Latin word cygnus ("swan") and the Old French suffix -et ("little").

Swan

An adult male is a cob, from Middle English cobbe (leader of a group); an adult female is a pen. Description[edit] The swans are the largest members of the waterfowl family Anatidae, and are among the largest flying birds. The largest species, including the mute swan, trumpeter swan, and whooper swan, can reach a length of over 1.5 m (60 inches) and weigh over 15 kg (33 pounds). The Northern Hemisphere species of swan have pure white plumage but the Southern Hemisphere species are mixed black and white. The legs of swans are normally a dark blackish grey colour, except for the two South American species, which have pink legs. Swan Aid. A breeding cob with large black berry A pen on a nest of reeds built high to avoid flooding A swan family with cygnets only a few days old.

Swan Aid

English 50 Exercises for Poets. Exercises for Fiction Writers - Page 2. Book Ideas for Young Writers. 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer. When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult.

25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer

Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. English 50 Exercises for Story Writers. English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers Basic Theory: What is a short story?

English 50 Exercises for Story Writers

As soon as someone delivers a definition, some good writer will write a story that proves the theory wrong. About the only thing we can say for sure is that short stories are short and that they are written in what we call prose. Some attributes, however, seem to show up more often than not. Short stories have a narrator; that is, someone tells the story; have at least one character in them; have some action occur (or perhaps fails to occur); take place somewhere; that is, there is a setting for the action; and someone either learns something or fails to learn something (theme).With these five characteristics in mind, we can create an almost endless supply of exercises to help sharpen our techniques of story telling.

Narrative Voice Twenty or so years ago, voice was the "rite of passage" into a successful writing career. Online Rhyming Dictionary for Poetry and Songwriting. Table of Contents.