Read Like A Writer

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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Sunday, March 27, 2022

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5, Nature (eBook)

 

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5, Nature (eBook)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5, Nature 

(eBook)

 

by Various

 

 Part 1 - Part 2 - eBook 

 

 THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

    I Home: Friendship
    II Love
   III Sorrow and Consolation
    IV The Higher Life
     V Nature
    VI Fancy: Sentiment
   VII Descriptive: Narrative
  VIII National Spirit
    IX Tragedy: Humor
     X Poetical Quotations

 

 Volume V includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies
Language: English

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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2) (Audio Book)

 

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2) (Audio Book)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2) 

(Audio Book)

 

by Various

 

 

 Part 1 - Part 2 - eBook 

 

The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as trees; flowers; plants; birds; insects; mammals; and the sea. - Summary by Tomas Peter


Genre(s): Anthologies
Language: English

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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5, Nature (Part 1) (Audio Book)

 

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1) (Audio Book)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1) 

(Audio Book)

 

by Various

 

 

 Part 1 - Part 2 - eBook 

 

 The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as nature's influence on the poetic mind; daylight and nighttime; the seasons; inland waters; and highlands. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by the "Father of Canadian Poetry" Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943). - Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies
Language: English

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World's Best Poetry: Poems of the Higher Life, Volume IV, (eBook)

 

World's Best Poetry: Poems of the Higher Life, Volume  IV, (eBook)
 

World's Best Poetry: Poems of the Higher Life, Volume  IV,

(eBook)

 

by Various

 

Part 1 - Part 2 - eBook 

 

 THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

    I Home: Friendship
    II Love
   III Sorrow and Consolation
    IV The Higher Life
     V Nature
    VI Fancy: Sentiment
   VII Descriptive: Narrative
  VIII National Spirit
    IX Tragedy: Humor
     X Poetical Quotations

 

Volume IV includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. – Summary by Tomas Peter


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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2) (Audio Book)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2) (Audio Book)


The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2)

(Audio Book)

by Various

 

Part 1 - Part 2 - eBook 

 

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as the human experience; death; immortality; and Heaven. It also includes notable excerpts from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. - Summary by Tomas Peter

Genre(s): Anthologies
Language: English

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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1) (Audio Book)

 

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1) (Audio Book)

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)

(Audio Book)

by Various

Part 1 - Part 2 - eBook 

The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such as God; Christ; the Holy Spirit; prayer and aspiration; faith; hope; love; service; the Sabbath; worship; and creed. It also includes an introductory essay to the volume by Congregational pastor and progressive writer Washington Gladden (1836-1918). - Summary by Tomas Peter
 

Genre(s): Anthologies
Language: English

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Dracula by Bram Stoker (AudioBook)

 

Dracula by Bram Stoker (AudioBook)

Dracula 

by Bram Stoker 

(AudioBook)


The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn't invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the public's imagination that he is rightly considered their popularizer. Listen and you will meet not only the Count himself, but heroes Jonathan Harker and Abraham Van Helsing, plus an array of madmen, psychiatrists, and fair maidens who cross paths with the fanged menace.
 
 Dracula was published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. Wikipedia


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