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Travels In England: February 2013

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Articles from vintage travel guides about touring and experiencing England. Many articles are excerpted from "England, Picturesque and Descriptive", by Joel Cook, 1882. Much of this information is still very relevant today. Saturday, February 9, 2013. The town is on a fine peninsula almost encircled by the Severn, and the castle stands at the entrance to the peninsula. Only the square keep and part of the inner walls remain of the original castle, but a fine turret has been added by modern hands....The g...

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Short Story Writing: September 2012

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Tuesday, September 18, 2012. The "Dramatic" Short Story. Is the highest type of the short story. It requires a definite but simple plot, which enables the characters to act out their parts. In its perfect form it is the "bit of real life" which it is the aim of the short story to present. It is the story shorn of all needless verbiage,. The short story has Dramatic Form.

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Short Story Writing: February 2009

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Saturday, February 21, 2009. In our everyday life we are continually drawing inferences in regard to the characters of those about us, and we do the same thing in a story. Some writers tell us as clearly as they can the natures of the men and women they are revealing to us, while others leave that almost wholly for us to conjecture. Tuesday, February 10, 2009. 1 a Upon what...

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Short Story Writing: February 2010

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Wednesday, February 17, 2010. The Humorous Short Story. This almost belongs in the category of The Ingenuity Short Story. Mark Twain, too, usually writes in this vein, as in "The Jumping Frog" and "The Stolen White Elephant.". Labels: Types of Short Story. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Free Etsy PDF Catalog. Create your own free Etsy PDF catalog at CraftyCatalog.

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Short Story Writing: The "Dramatic" Short Story

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Tuesday, September 18, 2012. The "Dramatic" Short Story. Is the highest type of the short story. It requires a definite but simple plot, which enables the characters to act out their parts. In its perfect form it is the "bit of real life" which it is the aim of the short story to present. It is the story shorn of all needless verbiage,. The short story has Dramatic Form.

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Short Story Writing: Start With a Simple Skeleton Plot

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Thursday, June 13, 2013. Start With a Simple Skeleton Plot. Thus in "The Ambitious Guest," the theme is "The futility of abstracted ambition;" or, in its most general terms, "The irony of fate." The true plot is:. An unknown but ambitious youth stops at a mountain tavern and perishes with its inmates. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Free Etsy PDF Catalog.

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Short Story Writing: December 2013

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Sunday, December 8, 2013. Choosing a Good Title for Your Short Story. Have killed the book by its title. Why not call it "The Orbs of Heaven"? The hint was accepted and acted upon, and 6,000 copies were sold in a month.". At least, the title should be definitely fixed long before the story is completed, and often before it has taken definite form in the writer's mind. T...

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Short Story Writing: November 2009

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Monday, November 9, 2009. The "Ingenuity" Short Story. Labels: Types of Short Story. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Free Etsy PDF Catalog. Create your own free Etsy PDF catalog at CraftyCatalog. Types of Short Story. The Ingenuity Short Story. Listed on: Dmegs Web Directory. Eristoddle - Writing Links Directory. Phrases Avoided In Good Society. The Free Folk Music Blog.

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Short Story Writing: The Basics of Short Story Plots

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Saturday, October 6, 2012. The Basics of Short Story Plots. A plot implies action—that is, something must. And "The Birthmark," and many of Poe's tales; but these are stories of an exceptional type, in which the whole life of the chief actor comes to a focus in the crisis which makes the story. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Free Etsy PDF Catalog. Types of Short Story.

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Short Story Writing: October 2012

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Vintage advice for writers. Adapted from "The Writing of the Short Story", by Lewis Worthington Smith, Drake University, Iowa, 1902. Saturday, October 6, 2012. The Basics of Short Story Plots. A plot implies action—that is, something must. And "The Birthmark," and many of Poe's tales; but these are stories of an exceptional type, in which the whole life of the chief actor comes to a focus in the crisis which makes the story. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Free Etsy PDF Catalog. Types of Short Story.