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There are two ways to learn how to write fiction: by reading it and by writing it. Yes, you can learn lots about writing stories in workshops, in writing classes and writing groups, at writers' conferences. You can learn technique and process by reading the dozens of books like this one on fiction writing and by reading articles in writers' magazines. But the best teachers of fiction are the great works of fiction themselves. You can learn more about the structure of a short story by reading Anton Chekhov's 'Heartache' than you can in a semester of Creative Writing 101. If you read like a writer, that is, which means you have to read everything twice, at least. When you read a story or novel the first time, just let it happen. Enjoy the journey. When you've finished, you know where the story took you, and now you can go back and reread, and this time notice how the writer reached that destination. Notice the choices he made at each chapter, each sentence, each word. (Every word is a choice.) You see now how the transitions work, how a character gets across a room. All this time you're learning. You loved the central character in the story, and now you can see how the writer presented the character and rendered her worthy of your love and attention. The first reading is creative—you collaborate with the writer in making the story. The second reading is critical.


John Dufresne, from his book, The Lie That Tells A Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

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Saturday, July 30, 2022

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. Lovecraft

THE
UNITED AMATEUR

SEPTEMBER 1915
 
Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. Lovecraft
 
HOWARD P. LOVECRAFT
First Vice-President U. A. P. A.

 

CONTENTS

United Amateur Press Association:
Exponent of Amateur Journalism    4
The United Amateur, January 1915
Department of Public Criticism    7
The United Amateur, March 1915
Department of Public Criticism    10
March    14
The United Amateur, May 1915
Department of Public Criticism    15
The United Amateur, September 1915
Department of Public Criticism    21
Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs    31
The United Amateur, February 1916
The Teuton's Battle-Song    33
The United Amateur, April 1916
Department of Public Criticism    35
The United Amateur, June 1916
Department of Public Criticism    42
The Poetry of the Month: Content    49
The United Amateur, August 1916
Department of Public Criticism    50
The United Amateur, September 1916
Department of Public Criticism    54
The United Amateur, November 1916
The Alchemist    61
The United Amateur, March 1917
Department of Public Criticism    65
The United Amateur, May 1917
Department of Public Criticism    71
The United Amateur, July 1917
Ode for July Fourth, 1917    80
Department of Public Criticism    81
News Notes: To M. W. M.    84
The United Amateur, November 1917
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson    84
Department of Public Criticism    87
Reports of Officers: President's Message    90
The United Amateur, January 1918
Reports of Officers: President's Message    91
The United Amateur, March 1918
Reports of Officers: President's Message    92
The United Amateur, May 1918
Sunset    92
Department of Public Criticism    93
Reports of Officers: President's Message    98
The United Amateur, June 1918
Astrophobos    99
The United Amateur, July 1918
At the Root    100
Reports of Officers: President's Message    101
The United Amateur, November 1918
Department of Literature: The Literature of Rome    102
To Alan Seeger    106
The United Amateur, January 1919
Theodore Roosevelt    107
The United Amateur, March 1919
A Note on Howard P. Lovecraft's Verse    108
Official Reports: Department of Public Criticism    109
The United Amateur, May 1919
Helene Hoffman Cole—Litterateur    113
The United Amateur, July 1919
Americanism    114
The United Amateur, November 1919
The White Ship    115
To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema    118
The United Amateur, January 1920
Literary Composition    119
The United Amateur, May 1920
For What Does the United Stand?    123
The United Amateur, September 1920
Poetry and the Gods    124
The United Amateur, November 1920
Nyarlathotep    128
Editorial    129
Official Organ Fund    130
The United Amateur, January 1921
Official Organ Fund    130
The United Amateur, March 1921
Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess    130
Ex Oblivione    134
Official Organ Fund    134
The United Amateur, September 1921
The United Amateur    135
Editorial    136
The United Amateur, November 1921
The United Amateur    138
Official Organ Fund    138
The United Amateur, January 1922
The United Amateur    139
Editorial    139
The United Amateur, March 1922
Official Organ Fund    140
The United Amateur, May 1922
Official Organ Fund    140
At the Home of Poe    140

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. Lovecraft

ITS OBJECT

The desire to write for publication is one which inheres strongly in every human breast. From the proficient college graduate, storming the gates of the high-grade literary magazines, to the raw schoolboy, vainly endeavoring to place his first crude compositions in the local newspapers, the whole intelligent public are today seeking expression through the printed page, and yearning to behold their thoughts and ideals permanently crystallized in the magic medium of type. But while a few persons of exceptional talent manage eventually to gain a foothold in the professional world of letters rising to celebrity through the wide diffusion of their art, ideals, or opinions; the vast majority, unless aided in their education by certain especial advantages, are doomed to confine their expression to the necessarily restricted sphere of ordinary conversation. To supply these especial educational advantages which may enable the general public to achieve the distinction of print, and which may prevent the talented but unknown author from remaining forever in obscurity, has arisen that largest and foremost of societies for literary education The United Amateur Press Association.


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About the Author 

Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos.
 

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. Wikipedia
 

Born: August 20, 1890, Providence, RI
Died: March 15, 1937, Providence, RI
Full Name: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Spouse: Sonia Greene (m. 1924–1937)

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