Reading for Writers A place for analyzing technique in published fiction. And some possible answers to the oft-asked "What should I read next?". The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel When I was a freshmen in my second workshop ever and was feeling
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The favorite Manchurian card game is played with a deck of five cards. The card denoting Death bears the image of an owl, its eyes closed, sitting on a branch. Another, called Love, shows a pear tree. Then there is Rage, depicted by a lightning bolt. It i
Mashable invites you to produce “Top 10″-style posts with a length of between 600 and 1300 words. Images aren’t required, but they are useful. Think “10 Latino Social Sites” or “10 Blogging Platforms Head to Head”. And since months of bloggi
If you enjoy playing with words or are attracted to writing as a process, I think you’ll enjoy Language Is A Virus, Jack Kerouac’s Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, Allen Ginsberg’s Mind Writing Slogans, Salvador Dali’s Paranoiac-Critical Met
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This extraordinary collection of word games, visual tricks, and intellectual assaults on the conventional is a treasure trove of the artistic and socio-linguistic conundrums which the Surrealists cultivated. Of great value to teachers, comedy writers, and
Once your work on your novel is under way, one of the toughest foes you'll face in your quest for ultimate success—outside of your lack of talent or limited access to famous or powerful people—is the devilish problem of procrastination.
Peter Ciccariello is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and photographer, whose current interests are in experimenting with the fusion of text and images in 3-D computer graphics environments, and exploring the possibilities of poetry as landscape.
I should have known better. No one gets away scot-free. Certainly not ex-exotic dancers. Not even ones with fifteen and a-half community college credits and a legitimate chauffeur's license...I'd imagined a person had to do a lot more than flare her nostr
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people all over the world are making a list of 365 people they've met during the course of their lives - people who left an impression and whose name they remember - then they're randomly writing a set number of words about someone on their list. They're