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Remember to give yourself a little grace. Writing a good first chapter is an art form unto itself. Even if you are a master of all the chapters that come after, that first chapter remains a tough little nut to crack. Next month, we will discuss considerations for setting up the plot in...
Ten minutes after the agreed time, the woman he was waiting for still hadn’t appeared, and he sent her a message. She didn’t reply. She didn’t even read it, she hadn’t been online since she’d written back to him the first time. When he checked again five minutes later, he ...
doing technical writing/documentation and online customer service. Only much later did I understand that some initial difficulties I had with American colleagues were due to me being athird-culture kid and hidden immigrant. Other difficulties were due to their suspicion that I was having an affair ...
I'm not too satisfied with Laurie marrying Amy and that whole part where Jo realizes she's in love with Laurie but it's too late. I also didn't like the writing montages. I don't know what could have been done differently, but I didn't like the ending very much but I do ...
I mean hey, college doesn't mind if I drop a class here or there. My writing professor even told me if I didn't care about his class, don't come. W: That's it. You're grounded. M: I'm what? W: Grounded. Remember, grounded? No dates, no parties, no life (25) . (26)...
But somehow writing about the news and, later, about ___, came easily. Here was something interesting that required only a laptop and an ___. I loved the research that went into each post, loved being able to ___ what interested me and loved finding just the right phrase to describe...
Goblins are a classic fairytale, video game, and novel villain. They are often the cannon fodder that a bid bad evil guy will throw at new adventurers. In other words, they are a staple of mediocre baddies. Yet what if, this time, the goblins were the heroes? Today, Orc Chop Games ...
Watson states that he had “been barred by a positive prohibition from (Holmes’) own lips” of writing up this case for publication at the time – the reasons for this will be explained below. I very much enjoy how Holmes’ return links directly into the case that Watson himself has bee...
Laurie Stone's Streaming Now is a book of journal-like entries, scraps of critical pieces, bits of memoir, and it is a delight. She calls these fragments postcards, which is charming and accurate up to a point, but the writing is better than any postcard