The New Writers Interface - It's All About Your Book Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia The Marvelous Land of Oz: The Tipping Point | Fantasy Magazine Published in 1904, the big reveal-the-end of L. Frank Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, is that the protagonist (a rather dickish young boy appropriately named Tip) is in fact the erstwhile Princess Ozma of Oz, having been magically transformed into a boy as an infant. According to some curmudgeon on Wikipedia: “The detail of Tip/Ozma’s sex change, which can raise a range of psychological speculations in modern readers, made perfect sense in terms of early twentieth-century stage practice, since the juvenile male role of Tip would have been played by an actress as a matter of course.” In other words, quit with your newfangled psychological speculations, you darned modern readers you! Thus, I’m inclined to believe that the Tip/Ozma switcheroo was mostly a practical decision, though Baum probably also saw it as an opportunity to top himself. Humans are starved for images of ourselves. Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer. Tagged as: books01
Writing Angels About the Renegade Writer | The Renegade Writer Hi, Renegades! I’m Linda Formichelli, one half of the Renegade Writers. I’m the co-author, with the fabulous Diana Burrell, of The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success and The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock. (That’s me on the left enjoying the freelancing lifestyle with Diana, who’s on the right.) The Renegade Writer concept is that to have a successful freelance career, you need to do what works for you — instead of blindly following the “rules” you see set forth in books, in magazines, and on blogs. An editor friend gave me the idea for the book when I told him, “I just broke into the national magazines with a three-page query — but all the books tell you to keep your query to one page. Who is this Linda chick? In addition to writing for magazines, writing books, and running this blog, I offer phone mentoring for writers and teach an e-course on how to create a kick-ass article query. Thanks for visiting The Renegade Writer blog.
uWall.tv | Listen to a Wall of Music © 2021 - Privacy - Terms The Brilliance Of Baldwin: Some of my Favorite Quotes. Add Your Own! | Yolo Akili Happy Birthday James Baldwin! In celebration of one of my Favorite Leo’s, I thought I’d take the time to post some of my favorite quotes from this brilliant spirit. Check them out, and please post your own favorites in the comments section! Happy Birthday James! Quotes: “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” “I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their pain “People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” “Everybody’s journey is individual. ” There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
Lauren's Blog | a broken violin on an August afternoon I recently tweeted about something funny that happened to me. I was in a pizza place, and yes, I know I’m supposed to be like this big health nut tweeting about hummus and running at the gym, but I just finished my proofreads for Sever and I wanted to celebrate with what is essentially a doughy wheel of cheese. Get off my back. Anyway, the owner of this pizza place has been a family friend for decades. I suppose my pizza-spinning friend chose the dirt poor assumption, because he gave me a sort of piteous smile and said, “Just keep looking for a real job.” Obviously, I came right home and tweeted about the exchange. Writing may be a whimsical profession, but it has more or less the same ups and downs of any profession. But eventually it took its toll. He hung up. When I left my job to pursue writing full time, silly me, I thought I had seen the last of rude people. Now, to be clear, I am not here to discuss reviews, or blogs, or opinions of any kind. I hope I’m an approachable person.
Ray Bradbury in His Own Words Legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury would have celebrated his 93rd birthday on August 22. We are quite fond of Mr. Bradbury here at Book Riot. We’ve given you a reading pathway to his work, shared the special connections we have to his work, and at least one Rioter has his words tattooed on her body. Today, however, we are going to let Mr. And we’ve included a few famous people reading his stuff, too. Ray Bradbury – Story of a Writer Day at Night: Ray Bradbury NEA Big Read: Meet Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury’s Prune Commercial Ray Bradbury on Groucho’s “You Bet Your Life” Ray Bradbury reads “If Only We Had Taller Been” Burgess Meredith reads “There Will Come Soft Rains” Leonard Nimoy reads “Usher II” Stephen Colbert reads “The Veldt” Listen to Part 2 and Part 3.
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