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What’s A Sensitivity Reader, And Do You Need One?

June 5, 2019 by Fred Johnson

What’s A Sensitivity Reader, And Do You Need One?

We live in divisive times. As boundaries between ethnicities, nationalities, social classes, sexualities, and genders are chipped away, the old norms of personal, national, sexual, ethnic, and economic identification and organization must be reevaluated. This is, unsurprisingly, a messy, dramatic, sometimes unpleasant, but ultimately necessary process, and the results impact everything – including …

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5 Ways Virginia Woolf Can Help You Improve Your Writing

March 18, 2019 by Fred Johnson 4 Comments

5 Ways Virginia Woolf Can Help You Improve Your Writing

Though many know her for her dramatic suicide, Virginia Woolf was a champion of literary modernism who adapted the close psychological approach favored by Russian novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneering stream-of-consciousness narration that she married with a superb sense of style, restraint, and inimitable observational chops. As you might expect, there’s a …

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Purple And Beige Writing: What You Need To Know

January 28, 2019 by Rebecca Langley 2 Comments

Purple And Beige Writing: What You Need To Know

There are many ways to craft your prose, but when writing is over-decorated or as dry as sawdust, potential readers are easily dissuaded. Audience demand for embellished, overly descriptive prose, now commonly called ‘purple prose’, died sometime in the 20th century. Beige writing, stripped of all frills, can be similarly off-putting, though there are times when it’s the right tool for the job. …

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5 Ways Sylvia Plath Can Help You Improve Your Writing

January 14, 2019 by Fred Johnson 2 Comments

5 Ways Sylvia Plath Can Help You Improve Your Writing

In every generation of writers, artists, and musicians, there are one or two who go on to reshape the public consciousness through their identities and legacies. I’m thinking, for example, of how Percy Shelley has been the foppish, sensitive face of poetry in the popular imagination for centuries; how, thanks to Vincent van Gogh, all passionate artists are wild-eyed and one-eared; and how, thanks …

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3 Ways Ursula K. Le Guin Can Help You Improve Your Writing

November 7, 2018 by Rebecca Langley 6 Comments

3 Ways Ursula K. Le Guin Can Help You Improve Your Writing

When it comes to Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘inimitable’ is the first word that comes to mind. Multi-time winner of the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, and author of The Earthsea Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Word for World Is Forest, her novels are genre-busting spectacles and her poetry explains why poetry is still alive in the 21st century. She’s prolific, …

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Deep Point Of View

September 19, 2018 by Paige Duke 8 Comments

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Deep Point Of View

When it comes to writing a book that grabs the reader, authors need every tool possible. This is especially true when getting into the minds of your characters, where it can be easy to miss the key to unlocking their potential. That’s why, in this article, I’ll be taking a look at deep point of view: what it is, where it comes from, and how you can use it. What is deep point of view? Beth Hill …

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