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- January 7th, 2011, 1:47 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Favourite characters' names?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17502
Re: Favourite characters' names?
Mike Fallopian (from THE CRYING OF LOT 49), J.A.K. Gladney (from WHITE NOISE) and Cthulhu (from HPL of course) are great, stupid names.
- January 5th, 2011, 11:24 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Max word count for infodumps
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5916
Re: Max word count for infodumps
Not mine; DH Lawrence said it. He was right about most everything.Guardian wrote:That's a good advice. Thanks Steve.Say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
- January 5th, 2011, 10:41 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Max word count for infodumps
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5916
Re: Max word count for infodumps
So my question is, what is making an infodump to a true infodump and is there any true rules regarding it, max word count and anything else what I should keep in my mind? Logorrhoea is an affliction; readers will notice it. I'm a big fan of Steven Millhauser's short stories, but loathed his "M...
- January 5th, 2011, 10:11 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 818854
- January 4th, 2011, 7:23 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 308491
Re: What are you reading now?
THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING by T.H. White
- January 4th, 2011, 6:59 pm
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Huck Finn Gets Some Changes
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8283
Re: Huck Finn Gets Some Changes
Just one: everyone involved in this effort is an idiot.lmjackson wrote: Thoughts?
- January 4th, 2011, 1:17 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Why we love bad writing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10169
Re: Why we love bad writing
The Elements of Clunk Four years ago, I wrote an essay for The Chronicle Review cataloging "The Seven Deadly Sins of Student Writers"—the errors and infelicities that cropped up most frequently in my students' work. Since then a whole new strain of bad writing has come to the fore, not on...
- January 3rd, 2011, 10:42 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 818854
- December 31st, 2010, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: Happy New Year Everyone
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4897
Re: Happy New Year Everyone
Happy New Year!
- December 31st, 2010, 11:57 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 818854
Re: Do you have a new blog post?
One here on prose, and another here on good/bad writers.
- December 29th, 2010, 11:36 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Links to good free ebooks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 875
Links to good free ebooks
Post links here to good free ebooks. These should be ebooks that are part of Creative Commons licenses, or books made free by publishers. Don't post your own book or any old public domain book. Here's a good one to start: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING - this is the first book of Anthony Powell's 12 volum...
- December 29th, 2010, 9:18 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Start the story somewhere else...
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17905
Re: Start the story somewhere else...
Do some research and find Hemingway's original first chapter for THE SUN ALSO RISES. It's a good chapter, makes sense, but isn't as weird or ambiguous as the first chapter in the published book. He made the right choice cutting it. I'd rather read something odd to start a book than something germane.
- December 29th, 2010, 4:56 pm
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Do you have a new blog post?
- Replies: 2655
- Views: 818854
- December 29th, 2010, 11:12 am
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: JA Konrath
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11201
- December 29th, 2010, 11:07 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 308491
Re: What are you reading now?
LEVITATION by Cynthia Ozick.