For instance, "A Rasin in the Sun" starts with the poem "Harlem." I've noticed many (mostly contemporary) novels will start chapters with pieces of Poetry or quotes that are completely separate from the chapter itself, but that somehow compliment it.
I often struggle to fill in the periods between scene ideas, at least when it comes to generating the ideas needed, but a novel is not like a movie where editing out much of the non-critical scenes and details is usually needed as much.
But maybe that's not the case and I could probably "skip" s...
One author considers this mathematical statement by LeRoy Gorman entitled “The Birth of Tragedy” as a form of minimalist poetry:
(!+?)^2
Is this mathematical statement really a poem?
Creative writing highlights the value of human subjectivity. Mathe...
I'm writing a story where the protagonist has recently been adopted and her new sister is going to be the antagonist. She's like the school "Queen bee" you hear about in a lot of high school stories and I need a good name for her. She's 16 when the story takes place, last name is Hashimoto. She i...
The little one smiled and mentioned mosquitos, then he got really serious. "Do they eat butterflies?"
My husband makes a hrmming sound.
The little one scrunches up his nose. "Well, are butterflies diurnal? Because then they'd be sleeping and the bats wouldn't eat them."
brain explodes
Last weekend in the car he suddenly piped up with "We must be near [cousin's] house!"
So we asked him why he thought so. He says: "Because he lives near Boston and I think we must be near Boston because there are lots of cars with Massachusetts plates and it's very busy!"
It's crazy logical thinking for an almost-five-year-old.
There have a couple times that I have come across an answer in the low quality post que where the real problem is the question. I have always opened and voted to close the question and mostly ignored the answer. Is this the best practice? What could I do better?
I've noticed a few new people here but the writing exercise didn't go on Tuesday despite there being a quorum "present"... we were all pretty distracted by RL things, I guess
I have close to no experience of writing, but I have an idea that I would like to make into a short story (if for nothing else, for the sake of the exercise). It is a fantasy story seen from one of the character POV. I haven't yet decided if I should use first- or third-person narration, but from...
@KitZ.Fox Would you believe I have a relevant story?"
One of the oft repeated Brown family stories involves a little girl (4) with a startling understanding of the US postal service.
The aunt that likes to tell the story is hard for me as she relates to the project. She is very sweet; she has been very generous to me over the years. She is very, very Catholic. I (and this will be clear in the book) am completely atheist.
That reminds me...You may have seen my struggles with wanting to tell some stories about a man with whom I have been having an affair for 12+ years (that's far longer than any romantic relationship I have ever had)
He has a wife, the wife knows me, and the wife is firmly in my "target audience".
There is no way I could accurately tell the stories without the wife learning something she doesn't need to know.
If she ever hears of the book.
That's a problem.
Enter my first fictional character.
>I think M just became my single, very independent, next door neighbor. As a matter of fact, he is bisexual, smart and very handsome. (and tall....) There may be some sex in these stories.
HELLP syndrome is a life-threatening obstetric complication usually considered to be a variant or complication of pre-eclampsia. Both conditions usually occur during the later stages of pregnancy, or sometimes after childbirth. "HELLP" is an abbreviation of the three main features of the syndrome:
Hemolysis
Elevated Liver enzymes
Low Platelet count
== Signs and symptoms ==
HELLP usually begins during the third trimester; rare cases have been reported as early as 21 weeks gestation. Often, a woman who develops HELLP syndrome has already been followed up for pregnancy-induced hypertension (...
For instance, "A Rasin in the Sun" starts with the poem "Harlem." I've noticed many (mostly contemporary) novels will start chapters with pieces of Poetry or quotes that are completely separate from the chapter itself, but that somehow compliment it.
One author considers this mathematical statement by LeRoy Gorman entitled “The Birth of Tragedy” as a form of minimalist poetry:
(!+?)^2
Is this mathematical statement really a poem?
Creative writing highlights the value of human subjectivity. Mathe...
There have a couple times that I have come across an answer in the low quality post que where the real problem is the question. I have always opened and voted to close the question and mostly ignored the answer. Is this the best practice? What could I do better?
The Overlook Hotel
The Overlook Hotel