Saturday, March 31, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
WRITING REFERENCE #1
WRITING REFERENCE #1 - This post is the first in a series devoted
to writing reference. Specifically, six articles and one video, go to the
bottom of the post for a list of items. Beginning Writers Answer Book is an excerpt
(taken from the book of the same title), that deals with rejection. It views
this subject from the vantage of freelance writers with magazine articles.
Which I realize is less relevant, with the decline of brick and mortar
publishers, along with declining print media. However some of these ideas are
universal. Such as, reading between the lines. You might infer ways your
writing can be improved, based on a rejection or critique. Or, up to date
research on editors and agents, to improve your submission’s chances for
success.
1.
Beginning Writers Answer Book
2.
Selling Your Work Online
3.
70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes
4.
Fiction Genre Descriptions
5.
How Do I Write & Sell Short Fiction
6.
Query Letter Clinic
7.
Online Tools for Marketing and Promotion
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
LITERARY CRITICISM ON WHARTON
LITERARY CRITICISM ON WHARTON - This post contains a
snippet from a particularly scathing and somewhat humorous review. It comes from
the New Yorker’s website; on the topic Edith Wharton’s 150th
birthday.
NOBODY LIKES EDITH WHARTON by Elizabeth
Minkel - If a book is good, does it matter how we feel about the author?
Likeable writers regularly create abhorrent characters, but can the same be
said of the opposite? In this week’s Anniversary Issue, Jonathan Franzen tackles
the question. “To be rich like Wharton may be what all of us secretly or not so
secretly want, but privilege like hers isn’t easy to like; it puts her at a
moral disadvantage…She was the kind of lady who fired off a high-toned letter
of complaint to the owner of a shop where a clerk had refused to lend her an
umbrella. Her biographers…supply this signal image of the artist at work:
writing in bed after breakfast and tossing the completed pages on the floor, to be sorted and typed
up by her secretary. We can’t write her off as completely awful, because she did
have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty. A one-percenter
like Wharton invariably reads as the product of a long-dead era, one in which
conspicuous wealth could pass without judgment.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
STUDY GUIDE WHARTON FREE PDF DOWNLOAD
This post contains a free study guide for the novel Ethan Frome by
Edith Wharton. With a synopsis,
character list and map.
Ethan Frome Edith Warton Study Guide PDF
Friday, March 16, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
ETHAN FROME BY EDITH WHARTON
Ethan Frome & Summer by Edith WhartonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
ETHAN FROME - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton is a compact and highly effective novella. Wharton describes a tragically dysfunctional love triangle with deeply developed characters. The mood is starkly austere and bitterly cold; exploring the themes of morals and values. It’s a frame story; where the prologue and epilogue, written in first person, constitute a frame around the main story, written in third person. A key turning point in the novel is a “mash-up” that has enduring effects on the main characters. These individuals try to break away and then fall back into smothering frustration and despair. This story is in the public domain, as are all of Wharton’s works. Eathon Frome is her best known work and in my opinion a personal favorite.
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
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