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Julien, Esther, Arkady... and Salome by Richard French 8/23/2017 7:23:46 PM
Not too long ago, I read three 19th century novels that feature young people as leading characters.
Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" is sometimes called the first psychological novel. The main character is Julien Sorel, a man in his early ... more
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Lube Job by George Thomas Clark 8/19/2017 10:51:22 AM
She told him to use birth control, but he didn't...
Click here to read:
http://www.georgethomasclark.com/?p=11432... more
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Differences Between Fiction and Non-fiction: More Complex than Just True or Imaginary by Jess Wells 8/2/2017 8:15:48 AM
Fiction differs from nonfiction in more ways than just veracity. In preparing for a new course, I have discovered some more subtle differences.... more
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Hemingway v. Fitzgerald by George Thomas Clark 7/24/2017 2:22:39 PM
The great writers fight at a Hollywood party.
http://www.georgethomasclark.com/?p=11355... more
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Shameless Self-Promotion by Richard French 7/13/2017 6:53:07 PM
I began uploading my novels to kindle direct publishing (kdp) four years ago this coming November. I recently posted the fifth and last novel of a series called "Witnesses" to kdp, a great satisfaction for me, since I've been working on this series s... more
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Revisiting Marcel Proust by Richard French 7/4/2017 7:07:07 PM
Though I'm retired and live in Toronto now, I worked for 18 years as a pastor in a mining city called Sudbury 250 miles due north of where I live now. I wasn't overworked during the years i spent in mid-north Ontario and had time to write the fiction... more
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Good bye! by Howard Alan Lantzer 5/31/2017 9:59:48 PM
Goodbye!
My membership is expiring and I won't renew it. I've never made a single sale here so what's the use!
I've run flat into some serious health problems that could easily and quickly take my life. But for the time I have left,... more
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Do You Have Time to read Long Novels? by Richard French 5/24/2017 7:08:42 AM
Long works of fiction -- collections of novels that tell the stories of one or more characters -- have been features of the literary scene for a long time. The oldest I can think of and that I've actually read in English translation is the Japanese e... more
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Notorious Scoundrels! How Far Will You Go? by Mala Naidoo 5/16/2017 10:44:38 PM
Notorious characters in Shakespeare's Plays that resonate through time- how far will the writer go to create diabolical characters?... more
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We'll Find a Way by Connie Wesala 4/24/2017 10:51:00 AM
This sequel and stand-alone novel finds Karen Johnston happy with life after salvaging a rocky marriage and finding her biological father. But she has no idea what she's getting ready to face. One twist and turn after another.... more
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A Sense Of Place by Mala Naidoo 4/12/2017 9:51:30 PM
This blog explores a sense of place as significant in fiction with a few practical suggestions on how to achieve this, aligned with characters and events that propel the plot of the story.... more
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Confessions Of An Honest Man by Art Rosch 3/7/2017 9:41:54 AM
Artists often come from troubled families. Aaron Kantro passionately wants to be a musician but his mother opposes his dreams. She violently harasses her son to ensure that he won't get what he wants. What's wrong with this woman? Why does she tur... more
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Bad Deal by George Thomas Clark 1/9/2017 10:32:21 AM
This wasn't what he paid for...
Click to read:
http://www.georgethomasclark.com/?p=10490... more
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A Breakthrough by Richard French 1/6/2017 7:14:36 AM
In the mid-1980's, when I was a second-career student at a Lutheran theological seminary in Indiana, an idea for a novel came to me. The main elements would be stories I wrote derived from my hitch as an enlisted man in the American army from 1964 - ... more
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ARGO nears completion! by Howard Alan Lantzer 1/4/2017 2:49:47 PM
To love is to live...... more
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Is Chekhov's Writing Relevant? by Richard French 1/3/2017 4:09:54 PM
I took part for a brief time in an internet forum on writing. Another member asked if it was best to write about what we know or is it acceptable to dive into unfamiliar territory? Along with others, I offered an answer -- that I always appreciated a... more
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Book Promotion -- Continued by Richard French 1/2/2017 8:36:45 PM
I wrote a blogpost a week ago in which I said that the growth of a book promotion project for what we now call literary fiction is a matter of little breaks and small steps. I said in that post that I wanted to make advances in marketing in the new y... more
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50 Little Breaks, 50 Small steps by Richard French 1/1/2017 8:53:26 PM
2016 brought me at least two satisfying milestones in connection with the fiction I write.
First, I finished the fifth and last novel of a series called "Witnesses" that I'd been working on for 25 years. The series focuses on warfare and the... more
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Desiring Fire by Michael J Edmond 12/29/2016 12:03:16 PM
FREE for some doesn't mean a free-for-all.... more
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Why We Write, Why We Read by Mala Naidoo 12/12/2016 3:03:56 PM
The vast oasis of literature we have been reading since time immemorial-literature that has inspired us to continue reading, be it a writer of choice, genre or writer's style that draws us into the writer's world, forming connections to events, peopl... more
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