Posted in Other people's books, Where stories come from, tagged Cannibals, Colonialism, Cyclops, Fashion, Fears, monsters, Vampires, Zombies on January 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The material forms of our collective nightmares are subject to fashion. This year would have to be the year of the vampire. Zombies are also popular.
But just as low-waisted flares get the shove from the fashion scene to make way for armpit-hugging granny jeans, there isn’t room for all our monsters at one time.
A monster [...]
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This month’s Glimmer Train bulletin is just chock full of good advice.
Several good tips here from Bruce McAllister, writing coach & former director of creative writing at the University of Redlands. I was most intrigued by this one:
Copy out sections or whole stories they love. (It’s “play and mastery”—we know it as children, as we [...]
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Revision is something I struggle with. For years, I didn’t know what it meant. I thought it was some sort of advanced authorial copyediting, where I leaned back and admired the matchless sheen of my prose and gave the 100-watt corners an extra buff with the word-chamois to bring them up to 110.
That wasn’t revision, that [...]
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