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Hemingway: A Scientific and Mystical Interpretation
Ernest Hemingway is credited often as having contributed the most influential prose style of the twentieth century. The popularity of his writings and his continuing influence on writers remain largely...
View ArticleF. Scott Fitzgerald: Economy and Circumlocution
I want to talk about circumlocution. Why not? No one else seems to be letting the cat out of the bag. It’s like it’s some big secret. Well–here goes: I made an earlier post in praise of Ernest...
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5 Old-school Tricks to Jazz-Up Your Fiction, Memoir or Poetry
1. (The Colon) Ending Paragraph Enjambment: Instances of this can be seen throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work. It takes the form of a paragraph ending with a colon, followed by a new paragraph...
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High-Tech Sentences
What broader developments in the world-at-large might require something new in the writing of sentences? Is it enough to simply innovate with the content of our communication? A structure/content...
View ArticleF. Scott Fitzgerald’s Mysterious Triumph: This Side of Paradise
So how is it that this novel, despite it’s shortcomings, was still able to be successful? Ask any New York agent to represent your literary novel with a male protagonist and he’ll tell you: “Literary...
View ArticleWhat is Technical Satire?
What is Technical Satire? Short answer: it’s nothing yet. It’s not weird enough to really be Bizarro Fiction and yet too weird to be Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, etc. Is it an extension of Post...
View ArticlePositivity – The Secret Sauce that Makes Fiction Sizzle
Positivity. Am I positive that that’s what good fiction needs? yes. So many people are out there writing great stuff in fictional worlds that no one would ever want to visit. A negative fictional world...
View ArticleWhat is “Literary” Fiction …I mean REALLY
Recently I posted a review on Goodreads that was basically the same as my post F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Mysterious Triumph: This Side of Paradise. In that review and post, I mentioned the word “literary”...
View ArticleCreativity through Conformity? Yes!
We gotta be careful of what we believe. Many Americans subscribe a little too heavily to the Amer-I-Can philosophy and it’s becoming contagious throughout–it’s the myth of the Lone Hero, the Rugged...
View ArticleWrite Short to Win Long
Things have been just playing themselves out in a laissez faire, capitalistic fashion in the world of indie publishing for some time now. But something occurred to me a few days ago. (I think it was...
View ArticleTen Great Writers on Fiction Writing
1. Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Essential Tips for Short Story Writing (Video) 2. Jack Keruac’s Rules for Spontaneous Prose 3. T. S. Eliot and the Objective Correlative 4. H. P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in...
View ArticleInformative Podcasts about Fiction
1.) For those interested in getting the lay-of-land with respect to the modern novel: The American Novel Since 1945 Amy Hungerford is ‘the bomb’ at ‘opening the text.’ Plus, it’s an Open Yale course…...
View ArticleThe Fourth Method of Characterization
For all you novelists and short story writers out there, you may have heard that the first three methods of developing characters in a story are: 1.) Dialouge: Where the naunces of personality are...
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Architecture and Inspiration
So, I guess I should write something on this thing, huh? I’ve been wanting to write for a while on the relationship between architecture and inspiration. You see, I started a new job several months ago...
View ArticleParagraph Structure, C & F
A while back I was working as a substitute teacher. I remember that at every elementary school they always had these posters that described how to write a good paragraph using a sandwich as a metaphor....
View ArticleParagraph Structure 2, Hypnotic Outliers
This is a continuation of a previous post, Paragraph Structure, C & F. This post will discuss how the history of modern hypnosis can provide useful insights into writing interesting paragraphs....
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