Denis Johnson Early years[edit] Career[edit] Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction[7] and was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[8] It takes place during the Vietnam War, spanning the years 1963-70, with a coda set in 1983. Train Dreams, originally published as a story in The Paris Review in 2002, was published as a novella in 2012 and was a finalist for that year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Johnson's plays have been produced in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. Johnson is currently working on a new novel, The Laughing Monsters, which he has called a "literary thriller" set in Uganda, Sierra Leone and Congo. Personal life[edit] For most of his twenties, Johnson was addicted to drugs and alcohol and did not do much writing. Awards[edit] Works[edit] Novels[edit] Angels (1983)Fiskadoro (1985)The Stars at Noon (1986)Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (1991)Already Dead: A California Gothic (1998)The Name of the World (2000)Tree of Smoke (2007)Nobody Move (2009)
Why Erotic Fiction Makes You A Better Writer - Ah, writing. It’s definitely a love-hate thing for me. I looove to gobble up well-crafted words on a page. Great writing is my soul crack. I can’t stop. But when it’s time to write those words for other people? As my fingers hover over my keyboard and I’m staring at a blank screen, a stormy mix of self-doubt, anxiety, and sheer panic rolls in. Many hours (or days) later when I’ve finally accomplished the word-smithing mission du jour, the satisfaction of having written something seduces me to fall in love with it once again. So when this question came in about how to be a better writer, I was excited to share an unexpected writing lesson from last summer that has definitely, ahem, perked up my prose. Since you’re likely a writer too, I’d love to hear all of your writing rituals, tips, tricks, and of course, any erotic fiction you feel I should be reading ;). Selling Your Soul. Like SUPER epic. Loads of lovin’ xoxo Diggin' this content?
Miranda July Background[edit] Miranda grew up in Berkeley, California, where she first began writing plays and staging them at the all-ages club 924 Gilman. She attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland for high school. She later attended UC Santa Cruz, dropping out in her sophomore year.[6] After leaving college, she moved to Portland, Oregon and took up performance art. Her performances were successful; she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old.[7] Filmmaking[edit] Miranda July reading at Modern Times Bookstore in San Francisco Beginning in 1995,[8] while residing in Portland, July began a project called Joanie4Jackie (originally called "Big Miss Moviola")[9] which solicited short films by women, which she compiled onto video cassettes, using the theme of a chain letter. Filmmaker Magazine rated her number one in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004. Audio[edit] Acting[edit] Multimedia[edit] Personal life[edit] Works[edit] Publications[edit]
How To Write an eBook in 9 Must Have Steps June 28, 2011, 5:00 amby:The Financial Blogger Category:eBook At the beginning of this month, we launched our first eBook: Dividend Investing. We wrote this eBook to help young investors build their dividend portfolios. The only thing that comes to my mind right now is how much I would have made if I was selling the eBook at $17… ;-D How did we market our eBook? How to write an eBook: Where to start? All right, so you have a good idea, you are a blogger or you write easily on a computer. Step #1: Plan Your eBook Itinerary Writing an eBook is like going on a trip: you need to know where to start, where you are going and how you will get there. Writing an eBook is a big task, if you want to get through it and be proud of what you have written, you had better be disciplined and do one thing at a time. Step #2: Define Your eBook Mission You have a great idea for your book, awesome! Title: Dividend Investing – How To Build A Never Ending Cash Distributor Dividend investing: #1 Investing basics ).
Ariel S. Leve Ariel S. Leve (born January 24, 1968) is an award-winning journalist based in New York and London. A senior writer on contract with the London Sunday Times Magazine since 2003, she has written over a dozen cover stories, high-profile interviews, and in-depth, investigative features. Early life[edit] Ariel Leve was born in New York City and grew up with her mother, a poet, in Manhattan. At age five she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father, a lawyer. Career[edit] From October 2005 to January 2010 Leve wrote a weekly column under the title "Cassandra"[1] for the Sunday Times Magazine. Feature articles by Leve have covered the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, women who guard the women on Death Row, and a series of features on veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since January 2010, Leve has been writing "The Fussy Eater"[3] column which appears in the Observer Food Monthly. Awards[edit] Books[edit]
325 Free eBooks: Download Great Classics for Free Download 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video Religious Texts Assorted Texts This list of Free eBooks has received mentions in the The Daily Beast, Computer World, Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver was a major writer of the late 20th century and a major force in the revitalization of the American short story in literature in the 1980s. Early life[edit] Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, a mill town on the Columbia River, and grew up in Yakima, Washington.[1] His father, a skilled sawmill worker from Arkansas, was a fisherman and a heavy drinker. Writing career[edit] Carver continued his studies first at Chico State University and then at Humboldt State College in Arcata, California, where he studied with Richard Cortez Day and received his B.A. in 1963. In the mid-1960s Carver and his family lived in Sacramento, California, where he briefly worked at a bookstore before taking a position as a night custodian at Mercy Hospital. His first short story collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Personal life and death[edit] Decline of first marriage[edit] "But I couldn't.
Bookshelf Porn The Art Of Fielding | The Paris Review The Downton Abbey craze has led to a plethora of recommendations for books on the World War I era of Britain. I’m interested in this era for the States. What good novels are out there about this time frame, preferably set in New England? Much obliged, Calliope A few near misses: Ethan Frome (1911) begins in 1910 in rural Massachusetts, but the main action occurs in the 1890s. Main Street (1921) describes a small town during the war years, but it's set in Minnesota. Closer to the bull’s-eye: The Late George Apley (1938) or Point of No Return (1949), both by John P. Previous advice columns have addressed the question of good movie adaptations of novels. Sadie writes: I feel a certain kind of nerd (and I’m describing myself) devotes an undue amount of time to pondering these questions. It is a favored pastime among Barbara Pym fans to ponder wholly inappropriate casting choices for adaptations of Excellent Women.
5 Writing Tips from Tana French I’m still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you’re doing – so I’m headed that way, but I’m nowhere near there. But, for what they’re worth, here are some of the things I’ve learned along the way. 1. It’s OK to screw up. 2. 3. 4. 5. Tana French's new novel, Broken Harbor, publishes July 24 from Viking. The Orchid Thief The Orchid Thief is a 1998 non-fiction book by American journalist and author Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. The book is based on an article that Orlean wrote for The New Yorker, published in the January 23, 1995 issue. Plant dealer Laroche was determined to find and clone the rare Ghost Orchid for profit. Along the way, Orlean met people in the plant business. In their and Laroche's struggles and oddities, she glimpsed true passion for the first time in her life. Orlean's reaction, as cited on a GQ.co.uk interview: "Were you surprised when you read the screenplay? References[edit] External links[edit]
Zen for Writers: Finding a Calm, Peaceful State For Your PC That Would Inspire Productivity Writing is one of the toughest jobs in the world. It’s lonely and you have to focus and think at the same time. Our brain, however, is constantly looking for new stimuli. Most professional writers have a routine and a matching workspace to get into the flow of writing. 1. Distraction is your worst enemy. Not sure what notifications I’m talking about? 2. Are you dying to check your email? My personal favorite right is Blockr, a Chrome add-on that blocks internet access until you meet your self proclaimed writing goals. Offline distractions typically are clutter in your surrounding, including your physical and your virtual desktop. 3. While you are writing, there is no need to format the text. My personal favorite is OmmWriter, which is available for Mac and Windows. The three points above are also reflected in my article 3 Ways To Stop Multitasking & Stay Focused To Be More Efficient & Productive. 4. When you have to work long hours at the computer, your eyes will tire. 5. Conclusion
The Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics Jack Kerouac looked like Jesus. In the ink sketch my dad did of him, Kerouac’s arms are outstretched to either side, his head in profile as though waiting for the lash. His left hand reaches back, the fingers of his right point as though to show the way. A shock of black hair—and his hair is shockingly pretty—flows back from his high brow, his thick-lashed eyes and francophone nose. The sketch was from a poetry reading my dad had been to, and knowing my parents met at a poetry reading, I liked to imagine they were both there and that Kerouac had blessed their union. To Jack Kerouac, then, I owe my existence. Inside the poet’s body, dad sketched the heads of other Beat poets: Burroughs and Bukowski, and dad’s mean Russian-sized friend Andy Clausen. Dad made a signed and numbered batch of prints from the original sketch, I later gave them as birthday gifts to a couple of my boyfriends who immediately had them framed and hung them in their bedrooms. Poetry in my pajamas.
Your Guide To Scrivener Learn to use the ultimate writing software: Scrivener. Allowing you to combine the various elements that make up your writing project, from outlines to research to note, Scrivener helped author Nicole Dionisio write two novels in a single year. This guide to Scrivener outlines how to use Scrivener to make your writing better, and is useful for writers of all stripes – which includes you. Table of Contents §–Introduction §1–Planning Your Manuscript §2–Writing Your Manuscript §3–Editing Your Manuscript §4–Publishing Your Manuscript §–Conclusion Introduction In the past year I wrote two novels, and it wasn’t by chance. I graduated college.A friend recommended Scrivener to me. This extra time and effective technology allowed my writing more room to breathe, and to become more organizational and effective. A word processor is a computer application designated for the production of a text-based product. Scrivener fills this hole; it is what the typewriter was to the 19th century: revolutionary. 1. Age: