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If you are a writer looking to hone your craft, Francine Prose's invaluable book Reading Like a Writer demonstrates how careful, thoughtful reading can help you develop your skills and find your own writer's voice.

Prose Reflects Contradictions

Why does Shakespeare sometime do away with poetry and introduce prose in his plays?

Artists need to practice art. This article focuses on the writer and their commitment to prose.

An analysis of one of Eliot's few prose-poems and its roots in French symbolist poetry.

Ways in which you can enliven your prose.

Village Prose, a Russian literary style arising in the mid-twentieth century, while expressing distaste in the policies and momentum of the Communists, also expressed the nationalist sentiments later involved in the Soviet downfall.

A compelling theme in literature is that of transformation, or metamorphosis. One of the most famous tales of metamorphosis is Franz Kafka's story by the same name, but there are many others.

This article focuses on why we should edit down every piece we write.

This article explores the underrated art of creative non-fiction in English classes.

Finding the right market for your writing

If you've made your characters people to care about, living a fantastic (or harrowing) story, there's no reason to scrap the project. What you might be dealing with is a literary "battle of the bulge". In other words, it's time to edit ... carefully.

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Everyone build their own little box and this explains why and how to start over again.

Mrs. Appleton(60) visits her doctor.

Poetry, more than any genre of writing, is subjective. Even so, writing poetry well involves some important tools. This article discusses ways to improve writing poetry.

Told through quiet, effective prose in poem form, "The Trial" tells the story of Katie Flynn, a young girl who lives with her mother in Flemington, New Jersey. It's in this town that the famous Lindbergh kidnapping trial took place in 1935.

Henry Charles "Hank" Bukowski set down the lives of American outsiders and working people in poems, short-stories and novels in simple, unadorned language

Words of prose... during life's difficult relationship journey

The prose, the poetry, the organization, the self-congratulation in Thoreau's Great American Classic put me off.

Characters form the core of any novel. Here, a discussion on how characters can save your novel, or to write readable prose, is related.

Warren Ellis' novel, Crooked Little Vein, is filled with the grotesque and the wonderful. While the content can be hard to read, the prose is easy. It's a thoughtful novel that challenges the divisions between mainstream culture and fringe culture.

Writing is about finding questions and answering them. We explore prose when we write; and find a career can be made by traveling the highways of the mind. This essay discusses that analogy.

It's not easy to copy someone else's style. Here I try my hand at writing articles like my friend Bridgitte Williams.

Not all of us are born with the gift of the gab, nor the eloquent penmanship of Shakesperian prose. Bottom line, you need good content to write your ebook.

Deemed a "writing enrichment" program, WhiteSmoke is designed to turn most any document, e-mail or prose into a grammatically correct work that is both more professional and interesting to read. But, does it work?

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Where else on the internet can you make friends and earn money at the same time, catch up on global, national and local news, enjoy a few laughs, read up on sports, check out travel and fitness tips, watch videos, and read some clever poetry and prose?

Author and illustrator Lorie Ann Grover has written poetry and prose for preschoolers and high schoolers.

For writers writing fast can be a thrill, but also a mistake. This essay explains why it can be more beneficial to slow down the rate you put words on the page.

Anyone who listens to said "urban" radio these days is familiar with The Game's ode to video girls "Wouldn't Get Far", where him and Kanye West, who produced the track, posit pro-typical misogynistic prose against said video girls;

I think of a topic, type my little heart out and savor the proofreading process, only to have the following thought boom through my head: "Who would want to read this?"

A comparison of Victorian authors and their views towards social discrimination.

A few good collection of strong storyboarding software to help you with putting together the organizational aspects of your writing.

Achieving superior historical prose by using magazine style of writing.

Finding uneeded words in your prose is the first step in creating your masterpiece.

The beauty and simple complexity of this piece of prose-poetry is reviewed.

The battle of the lonely against dramaticism is futile. When we succumb to loneliness, we are not in control of our lives. Drama feeds loneliness, and vice-versa. Grab the reigns of your life, or you'll always define yourself by other people.

If you're a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or gay author, Fabulist Flash Publishing wants to include your original works of poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction in its new book: The Queer Collection: Poetry and Prose 2007.

The best tales are never told; rather, a capable writer will use powerful words and concise phrases to show emotion and settings and enable readers to imagine the rest.

OUT FROM UNDER: A Barbaric Pitfall is a poem about a Caveman Struck with lust so heavy he lets his gaurd down, forgetting she's a stranger, and the possibilty that beauty and danger can go hand in hand.

Writing contests force you to create a body of work on deadline, and often within a strict set of guidelines. A writer who can use this as a springboard for stellar prose deserves all the recognition they can get.

Ernest Hemingway is arguably the 20th centuries' most revolutionary author. After altering prose to read as active text instead of the popular use of reflection, Hemingway was able to influence an entire generation of new writers.

The main problem for many novice screenwriters is that they are accustomed to narrative prose in which authors must describe everything. But screenplays are drama. Dramatists need to avoid description and to write action.

Published author June Cotner is asking for submissions for a series of books from motherhood to weddings.

Two literary geniuses compete for an opportunity in 1920 Harlem to enlighten two cultures, radically different, facing the same hardships. Through poetry and a few prose pieces, suffrage, civil liberty, death and freedom come to light. A survival piece.

Becoming a freelance writer can be difficult. It isn't merely sitting at a beach writing lyrical prose and hard hitting nonfiction.