In fact, it still is hard to be published by reputable outlets. Therein lies the rub. Reputable outlets are being pushed off both stage and screen by self-publishing (and often self-aggrandizing) individuals with more time than training. Today, upwards of 30 million bloggers spew unedited musings without
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Grace O'Connell was the 2014 winner of the Canadian Author Association's Emerging Writer Award and teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. Her novel Be Ready for the Lightning explores troubled family dynamics and finding bravery during crisis situations. Here's why O'Connell reads
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UCR Creative Writing professor Susan Straight collaborated with Esri, an international supplier of geographic information system software, to map the settings of 737 books according to American geographical location. The map, which was published on July 3, 2017, indicates the locations of novels that
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kids articles. If you like the idea of writing stories but get stuck when you are faced with a blank page, try writing exercises to jump-start your writing practice. Just like practicing.
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… and historical scholarship with creative writing. The first of a dozen well-received collections of poems was For Captain Stedman (1983), while the last was Traveller's Palm (2017). His historical novels included Livingstone's Funeral (2010), and Ultimatum (about the Anglo-Portuguese crisis of 1890),
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Beginning in seventh grade, however, he picked up creative writing, even enrolling in a magnet art school to further immerse himself in the craft. Around this time, the musician also experimented with his first rhymes, freestyle rapping atop Fergie tracks in an effort to impress his friends. It wasn't until
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