In the past, us writers were always at the mercy of publishers and literary agents. We only got published if they liked our work, or thought it would make them money, or if you happened to be a multi-millionaire and could afford to print a few copies of your own precious novel! These days, things are a bit different. Whether you're writing a gripping murder mystery, a deep …
If you are on your first endeavor to writing a novel, you are probably facing extremely difficult to overcome complications. No matter whether your work is pure fiction or a factual story, it still needs extensive research, adoption of literature approach and so on. And from the moment you store your work to a R4 Card to the moment you print it, you would face extreme hardship and would be …
I’ve been listening lately to a lot of British broadcaster Melvyn Bragg’s history of ideas radio show, In Our Time, including a brilliant episode on metaphor. It’s made me think a lot, both about how I describe things in my own writing, and about how I read other people’s metaphor. As every schoolboy (or schoolgirl) knows, metaphor is the idea of describing …
If I was going to embody what I think poetry is in terms of a car it wouldn’t be 4x4 cars. It wouldn’t be a loud …
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As defined by Watson (1986), poetry is a creative understanding of knowledge uttered through meaning sound and musical language choices in order to evoke an emotional reaction. Since times immemorial, …
It goes without saying that you can learn a great deal about writing by reading the classics. Advice on writing novels is like carbon dioxide – it is free and …
