It was a dark and stormy night "It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase[1] written by English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the opening sentence of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.[2] The phrase is considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing,"[1] also known as purple prose. The phrase comes from the original opening sentence of Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. Evaluations of the opening sentence[edit] Writer's Digest described this sentence as "the literary posterchild for bad story starters".[3] On the other hand, the American Book Review ranked it as #22 on its "Best first lines from novels list Modern usage[edit] Literature[edit]
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Welches Make-Up passt zu einem ovalen Gesicht? | Beauty-Tipps und mehr bei stylefruits Für Frauen sollte das zur Gesichtsform passende Make-up genauso wichtig sein, wie die zur Figur passende Kleidung. Denn ein unvorteilhaftes Make-up kann ein eigentlich hübsches Gesicht schnell verunstalten und alt aussehen lassen. Daher sollte jede Frau die für ihre Gesichtsform (bspw. rund, länglich oder herzförmig) passende Make-up-Variante wählen. Folgende Tipps gelten speziell für ein ovales Gesicht. Bei einem ovalen Gesicht sind die Wangenknochen die breiteste Stelle der Gesichtskontur. Nach oben und unten verjüngt sich die Gesichtsform gleichmäßig. Diese Gesichtsform gilt als die Unproblematischste, denn sie wirkt insgesamt sehr gleichmäßig. Make-up: Bei einem ovalen Gesicht ist es nicht nötig, verschiedenfarbige Grundierungen an bestimmten Stellen im Gesicht aufzutragen. Rouge: Da die Wangenknochen die breiteste Stelle im ovalen Gesicht bilden, sollte man sie unbedingt betonen.
Writers Write Wonderbook Character Chart a) If you could have two whole weeks for vacation and go and do anything you wanted, what and where would it be? b) If you had a weakness for one of the seven deadly sins, which one would it be and why? (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) c) If you could bring one person back to life and spend a whole day with him or her, who would it be and why? d) If you won a three-million dollar lottery, what would you do with the money? What would you do with a five-hundred dollar win? e) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? f) What do you do to relax after a bad day? g) Where would you go to hang out if you wanted to feel comfortable? h) What do you do when you are angry? i) Do you have a secret passion? j) How do you feel in a crowd? k) If you were asked to describe yourself, what would you say about the kind of person you are? l) Where do you want to be in your life ten years from now? m) A tear jerker is on. o) What do you think would make a perfect first date?
Robin Black How did you become a writer? I took a super circuitous route. Growing up, I wanted to be an actress and a singer, ambitions that I dropped the second I arrived at Sarah Lawrence and saw the theater kids there. They were so sophisticated, so cool, I nearly died of social anxiety, and gave up before I began. (My decision-making skills are not always the best.) In my sophomore year, I took a fiction writing class with Allan Gurganus and very quickly became convinced that this was the new path for me – but then, again, various anxieties intervened, and I took a nearly twenty year detour during which time I married, divorced, remarried, had three kids, lost two pregnancies in emotionally devastating ways, and spent a lot of time mad at myself for letting go of one dream after another. In May, 2001, when I was thirty-nine, my father died. Fall 2001, I entered The Rittenhouse Writers group in Philadelphia, and July 2003, I entered the Warren Wilson MFA Program. When and where do you write?
Writing Genres As students prepare to write, they need to think about the purpose of their writing: Are they writing to entertain? to inform? to persuade? One of the most important considerations is the genre or form the writing will take: a story? © ______ 2010, Allyn & Bacon, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Ten Obvious Truths About Fiction The following essay was previewed in the class that Stephen Graham Jones taught for LitReactor, Your Life Story Is Five Pages Long. 1. The reader should never have to work to figure out the basics of your story. Who’s whose wife or husband, what the time period is if that matters, why these people have broken into this house, and on and on, just the basic, ground-level facts about your story. If you don’t relay that stuff up-front, as quickly and efficiently as possible (and please don’t be fancy), then your story becomes a game of three-card-monty, with you hiding information under this or that shell, trying to keep everything moving fast enough that nobody knows what’s going on. Which is to say your story becomes about the reading of the story, not the experience the story is trying to get the reader to engage. 2. Meaning you don’t have to lay every last detail of every last thing out. The best writers are the ones who can cover the most distance with the fewest words. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Author of 'My Struggle,' on the Power of Short Stories By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Karl Ove Knausgaard isn’t known for being brief. My Struggle—his celebrated six-volume, 3,600-page autobiographical novel—is an experiment in radical scope, a kind of literary ultra-marathon. How long can a narrator extend a moment? In our conversation for this series, though, Knausgaard chose to examine the biblical story of Cain and Abel—a text he admires for its extreme compression. My Struggle is being serially translated into English, and the latest volume—Book Four—comes out Tuesday. Knausgaard’s work has been translated into more than 15 languages. Karl Ove Knausgaard: I first heard the Cain and Abel story at school, when I was seven or eight. I need 300 or 400 pages to say something significant. In some ways, this concision is typical of the Old Testament. It burned in Cain and his face fell.