B.S. Johnson’s ‘Introduction’ to his 1973 collection of short prose Aren’t You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? has been described by Jonathan Coe as not only ‘one of the last important things he wrote’ (it is dated 5 May 1973, and Johnson died in the November of that...
During the first part of the session, participants will write miniature prose pieces inspired by the fiction we’ve read. In the second half we’ll work on openings and outlines of longer stories. These can be continued after the session. ...
Sometimes, when I did something repeatedly for hours during the day, I would dream about it. For example, if I swam for hours or watched a movie that impressed me in any way, I would dream about that. Gretchen and I would make love for the first time in my dream. There was no nee...
What is another name for a short story? What kind of prose in The Story of an Hour? What is the central theme of the short story Gusev? What is point of view in a short story? What is the denouement of The Story of an Hour?
The basis for some pieces is history, and in others it is purely fictional. In the latter case, the genre takes the form of a fable. The success of a work like La guerra rests not in the narrative surprises or the characters, but in the insights one can add to the already well ...
NVDT TOTALLY RANDOM – For a Good Cause – In More Ways Than One This post supplants a post about writing germinating in the back of my mind at a slow idle. This one is much simpler. Want to support a great cause? Here it is.Worldreader.Can’t sell enough deathless prose to pay ...
covering a wide variety of themes from a diverse group of writers. Some are humorous, some sad, moving and clever. It was interesting to read these pieces by unknown writers, although some have been published elsewhere, and many hint at the potential for real success with a writing career....
Find more haunting poetry and prose at TheHalloweenHaunt.com. Read the poem for yourself (scroll down a bit). Music: “Shadows” by Sam Haynes from the album“Welcome to the Horror Show Music for Halloween 2013” “Movement Proposition” by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com) “Hex (soundtrack...
The same contradictions rend to pieces the visions that possess the minds of other players in the unfolding drama of war. In this way, albeit only implicitly, the setting of Babel’s Red Cavalry becomes a latter-day Jerusalem—a focal point of clashing chiliastic and apocalyptic collective ...
of theirdrama. In addition to these technical devices he resorted to an increasingly allusive prose style, which became dense and charged with symbolic imagery. His late “manner” derived in part from his dictating directly to a typist and in part from his unremitting search for ways of projec...