How a Great Speech Took a Movie from Simple Summer Blockbuster to Cinema Classic
Confession: I’m not really a movie buff. There is a wide swath of movies cutting through the modern lexicon of
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What Jane Eyre Can Teach You About Mind-Blowing Heroines
This is a guest post by K.M. Weiland, a writer who lives in make-believe worlds, talks to imaginary friends, and survives
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9 Lessons on the Care and Feeding of Writers (from Cats)
(Let’s get this out of the way, right up front: What follows might be the most stereotypical post ever written
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5 British Phrases You Simply MUST Be Using
Slang. I love it; you love it. We use it to artfully punctuate dialogue in our writing, we use the
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Want to Write Punchy Main Characters? Rocky’s Here to Help [Guest Post]
I was a late-comer to the Rocky party. In fact, I would have continued to avoid the hard-hitting franchise (oh yes,
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5 Steps to Growing a Better Writing Life
Today I’m going to expound upon something that’s been on my mind quite a bit lately—grass. Specifically, the grass in
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10 Amazing Quotes to Inspire You Today
We’re over a quarter-way through 2014, and if your inspiration is flagging (as mine often is), here are 10 bits
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Phrases on Fridays: Deuteragonist
Deuteragonist. I first encountered this esoteric literary term while in the Web conference in Iowa last week. Despite the fact
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Opposites Attract: Balancing Vastly Different Writing Impulses
My two favorite living writers are Pat Conroy and Jo Ann Beard. For a while, this presented a problem, insofar
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3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start a Blog
Are you a writer who has heard an awful lot about this “author platform” thing and you’re not quite sure
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