After so many white and gray Seattle winter images in a row, campers, I thought everyone might be refreshed by the sight of a little green. As I like to tell the students in my writing classes, hitting the same note over and over again, even in the name of realism, can get a littl...
(Or those readers would have assumed that you were an Oxford don writing fiction on the side, but that avocation has historically resulted in fewer book readers naming their children Susan.) That being said, the choice to identify yourself with initials or not is entirely up to you — or,...
Travelers now describe the site of Tyre as "a heap of ruins, broken arches and vaults, tottering walls and towers, with a few starving wretches housed amid the rubbish." A large part of it is under water, a portion of the ruins a place to spread nests upon, and the rest has become...
But soon even the Miniplots fail safe Big Idea themes proved insufficient to describe just what sort of world we lived in.Character as Destinydrama relied on unseen higher powers to imbue humanity individual by individual with a certain outcome. Some were just flat-out “Evil” and born that...
Depending on your heart condition, one or two leads will be placed in the heart. Once the leads are put in place, they are attached to the heart wall for optimal connectivity. An implanted TV-ICD system. An implanted subcutaneous S-ICD system. ...
These types of bodily sensations are often difficult to describe, so that many sufferers feel compelled to use grotesque comparisons. These include, for example, the feeling that individual body parts are suddenly heavy as lead or huge. Albert Hofmann, the inventor of LSD, described such changes...
Everything you need to know to create a D&D character Dungeons and Dragons, also known as D&D, is a tabletop role-playing game in which you and your friends play as fantasy characters on a quest of your choosing. The first step in your...
It makes a stellar describe-your-book paragraph in your query letter. There, too, you will be incorporating the elements of the magic first hundred words — minus the “Hi, my name is” part, they make a terrific opening paragraph for a query. We have, in short, been pulling together...
I (and most agents) will ignore the adjectives you may choose to describe your own work. Now, many aspiring writers would instantly interpret this as don’t bother to query if you don’t already have a book out, but is that in fact what’s being said here? Let’s approach this like...