Tag: fiction
member name: Beaker (just Beaker)
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October 12, 2007 01:57 PM EDT --
I'm writing a story in which one scene involves the self-checkout line at the supermarket, and I thought I'd better find out how other people feel about them.
Does your store have a self-checkout . . .
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August 03, 2007 07:00 PM EDT --
Can I make writing a part of every day? I'm about to find out.
Writing, like exercise, is addictive. Once I've managed to write for several days in a row, it becomes something to anticipate rather . . .
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October 10, 2007 07:20 PM EDT --
The modern novel has been killed, according to critic Dale Peck, in his essay collection aptly entitled Hatchet jobs. The culprits: James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, along with their followers. . . .
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November 02, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
On Saturday night (well, technically, on Sunday morning), we "fall back" and gain an hour of time. This year, instead of trying to sleep in a while longer, let's devote that hour to . . .
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March 19, 2008 09:14 PM EDT --
In previous articles, we've discussed why we write, what our writing history looks like, and how we'd feel about seeing our work translated to the big screen. Now let's give some thought to . . .
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September 26, 2008 02:09 PM EDT --
When I was young, I read omnivorously. Even after I developed some taste and could tell the difference between good and bad writing, I wasted many a lovely summer day reading trashy novels (Judith Krantz, . . .
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February 28, 2009 04:40 PM EST --
For the Love of Books, By Ronald B. Schwartz (Grosset/Putnam, 1999)
If you’ve ever wondered which books inspired your favorite authors, you might find the answer here. Ronald B. Schwartz persuaded . . .
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October 14, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
First disclosure: I’m a huge Robert Olen Butler fan. I’ve read most of his books and I think he’s a genius. His ability to describe a scene or to flesh out a character with just a few . . .
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October 25, 2007 05:37 PM EDT --
Those of us who practice the mystical art of novel-writing are familiar with the minimum wordcount for a mainstream novel: 80,000 words. Shorter forms are the novella (50,000 to 80,000) and novelette . . .
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October 23, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
Behold Winkie: the teddy bear adored and cast aside by a half-dozen children in succession, who magically comes to life and escapes into the wilderness, miraculously gives birth to a baby Winkie, and . . .
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April 07, 2008 02:40 PM EDT --
I loved this book! The author, a creative writing professor at U.C. Irvine, takes one of his own published stories and goes over it, almost line by line, explaining what he was thinking at each phase of . . .
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October 02, 2007 02:18 PM EDT --
The Visitor is the story of Anastasia King, a 22 year old girl. Six years ago, her mother abruptly left her father, for reasons unexplained, and Anastasia chose to live with her in Paris, rather than with . . .
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August 23, 2007 10:13 PM EDT --
When I'm writing prose, I sit someplace comfy and write on my laptop. When things start to happen in the story I'm writing, I'll forget about the things I should be doing and cause pandemonium . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:35 PM EDT --
Andrei Petrescu is a young Romanian boy, living a poor but happy life with his parents in the mid-1930s. With the second World War looming, Andrei’s family is in danger, because his mother is . . .
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October 04, 2007 06:44 PM EDT --
Part one: Cal
Big Cal Calhoun lurched his way through the lobby of the Science building and rested his hairy forearm on the reception counter.
“Hey, . . .
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