If you’re writing a novel or memoir, the most important part of the query letter is the pitch—a brief basic description of your story designed to pique the agent’s interest. This will be the longest and most difficult section to compose. It’s tough to boil down an entire book into...
ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING Meditation & Writing Retreat 2020. Meditation, mindfulness, & writing in beautiful Santa Fe NM location. In my upcoming class at Santa Fe Workshops we'll explore how meditation and mindfulness can stimulate the creative process, opening the mind to new literary possibil...
and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondestpredilection
China's National Tourism Day falls on May 19 every year starting the year of 2011. The date was chosen to commemorate the day when China's ancient travel book writer Xu Xiake (1587-1641) began writing his masterpiece "Travel Notes of Xu Xiake". Special friendship cuts across species China...
People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally. 2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文 People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to reme...
I wasn't sure what to do, other than to retreat a third time. After all, it's just not everyday that one is attacked by a butterfly. This time, though, I stepped back several paces to look the situation over. My attacker moved back as well to land on the ground. That's when ...
Previously unpublished writers were invited to submit entries of up to 5,000 words from a novel, narrative nonfiction or short story collection in progress. The prize was a week-long writing retreat at West Dean College, a centre of creativity and tranquillity near Chichester in West Sussex, pl...
John Turturro is writing and set to direct and star in the film “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” adapting Susan Sheehan’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize reportage about a family whose daughter battles schizophrenia. The film is fully packaged and almost ready to go, said Acosta. ” Witness ...
he was writing to Alexander to suggest negotiations.However, if their quarrel was going to come to war, then Napoleon's expectation was that the Russian army would try to stop him as near the frontier as possible (as it had five years earlier, in '7) to prevent him from wreaking too ...
Two hundred years ago today the battle was fought which had the highest death toll per hour of any action until the Battle of the Somme. Fittingly it forms the centrepiece to possibly the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace.In 1812, death rates in battle averaged about 7 percent ...