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Which is not to say that a good literary sex scene oughtn’t describe sex that plays to patriarchal scripts, only that it ought to know that it is doing so—and ideally, why. Having cultivated this awareness in myself—the ability to recognize a sex scene that triggers a conditioned ...
s partly because he has the sort of job where if it was discovered he was ‘kinky’ it wouldn’t be looked on too kindly, but also because if you have some kind of activity where you can use a code or an action to trigger it off, you’re already building towards a scene and no...
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Bukowski wrote a scene in which Henry Chinaski attends a test screening of what would become the film, Barfly. He’s drunk and, fed up, starts shouting that he’s the greatest writer of his generation and don’t they realize this. I read it in my early 20s on a bus from San Diego...
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“I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed...
Here's a brief guide: “ Not sure when to show, not tell in your writing? This post will SHOW you what to do with writing tips and examples that you can easily adapt into your writing. Tweet this Tweet Show if: It is a pivotal scene, like the climactic moment in your story. ...
I think in this case you do need to know a bit aboutThe Waste Land’s cultural impact in order to get the full value of the exchange; I chose not to explain it all because it’s such a small scene that explanation would have overloaded the significance. Some readers will skim past, ...
Kissing Alice(2010), set in 1920s and 1930s England (shortlisted for the 2010McKitterick Prize). She has two non-fiction works as well: Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World(2012), which tells the stories of some of the 19th-century’s most intriguing col...