Tu Youyou turned to Chinese herbs for help.Despite their limited resources and hundreds of failed experiments, they found a possible chemical.In order to test the medicine, Tu Youyou and her team tested the medicine on their own bodies.They finally discovered the most effective drug ...
Pretend you’re writing a letter home or talking with a friend. Try different voices and styles. Write long, meandering passages and short, telegraphic passages. Use a cascade of simple words. Describe using specific details. Deploy sensual images, then evoke sound and touch. Usually write ...
Have to say I lovedThe Blitz, a 50-line, super-fast, meant-to-be-read-aloud form created by Robert Keim. There is no punctuation and no required rhyme. I could explain the rules, but it’s better to just glean the form by reading an example. Try to read this without moving your ...
Did you know a single-sentence premise is one of the most important part of a book proposal and query letter? A good premise can literally get you published. I make every writer in our community write a premise when they're first getting started with their book. What's amazing is that ...
“Well, you got my letter.” “What letter?” “My letter.” “I didn’t get any letter.” “Then I must have forgotten to post it. It was to tell you I was down here tutoring your Cousin Thomas, and that it was essential that, when we met, you should treat me as a perfect...
” Paul comes alive only in the evenings, when he works as an usher at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Hall, wears a uniform that makes him feel handsome, guides elegant people to their seats, and listens to the music and experiences a “zest for life.” Paul is not exactly a music lover; it...
“I once sent a story to theSanta Monica Review.In his rejection letter, the editor wrote: “Good enough story — but what’s unique about your sentences?”… I had to work on word choices, the music of language. I hadn’t realized that writing would be so hard.” ...
To Woody Allen: "Never write a letter, never throw one away."On Sunday, in response to his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow's allegations of sexual abuse by him when she was seven years old, Woody Allen published in the New York Times an open letter that certainly no publicist, lawyer or...
词源:来自拉丁语“envelopa”,意为“包裹” 例句:I put the letter in an envelope and sealed it. 固定搭配:mail envelope(邮寄信封) 近义词:envelopment, wrapper stuff: 词性:名词、动词 中文意思:材料,物品;塞满,填充 英文释义:material for filling or covering something; to fill with things 词源:来自古...
Did you know a single-sentence premise is one of the most important part of a book proposal and query letter? A good premise can literally get you published. I make every writer in our community write a premise when they're first getting started with their book. What's amazing is that ...