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Katie Day's List: Writing fiction - advice, how-to, etc.
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Feb 05, 06
Dave Eggers's writing and homework center in San Francisco
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Jan 17, 12
"Telling a brief story around a single photograph seems like such a simple idea. Add to that a sharing element and you think: another clever web platform to distract and amuse us. But there’s a lot more to Cowbird.The interface is beautiful, as one would expect from Jonathan Harris, Cowbird’s creator. The Web artist and programmer behind the 2006 Web project “We Feel Fine,” Harris thinks big. His goal with Cowbird: nothing less than to create “the world’s first library of human experience,” according to the site.While you can add audio, the focus is on the image, which floats front and center, full screen, with the accompanying story beneath in plain text. To get a feel, you’ll need to spend some time with the stories posted thus far, as the site suggests."
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Dec 21, 11
Follow the links below for some useful writing tips:
Neil Gaiman: 8 Good Writing Practices
P.D. James: 5 Bits of Writing Advice
Jack Kerouac: 30 Cool Tips
Ronald Knox: 10 Commandments of Detective Fiction
Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules
Michael Moorcock: 10 Tips for Good Storytelling
Andrew Motion: 10 Techniques to Spark the Writing
George Orwell: 6 Questions/6 Rules
Edgar Allan Poe: 5 Essentials for the Better of a Story
Annie Proulx: 5 Techniques for Good Craftsmanship
Zadie Smith: 10 Good Writing Habits
Strunk & White: 11 Composition Principles
Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing
Billy Wilder: 10 Screenwriting Tips
Rejection: 3 Methods for Coping
For more expert writing tips, advice, and articles, click here. -
Dec 12, 11
examples of opening sentences that could be novels or short stories, but actually essays
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Oct 16, 11
1895 book on How to Write Fiction
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Feb 06, 11
Elmore Leonard's ten rules....
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Dec 08, 10
"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."
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Dec 08, 10
"Figment.com will be unveiled on Monday as an experiment in online literature, a free platform for young people to read and write fiction, both on their computers and on their cellphones. Users are invited to write novels, short stories and poems, collabo
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Jul 22, 10
"Introducing a story to a reader is a lot like dropping a pickup line on someone: do it the wrong way and they’ll wind up under the covers with a different… book.
Here to show you how it’s done are the top twenty-five cold openings in Western literature.
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