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On Writing
5 Reasons Why Writers Should Focus on Creativity
What kind of writing do you do on a regular basis? Are you a digital writing professional? A copywriter? An expert who focuses on social media campaigns and content curation?
13 Ways to Overcome a Reading Slump
Thirteen relatively easy, tried and true favorite ways to bridge that reading void. 1) Return to an old-favorite. There is a reason why we always feel like we are returning home again, use that nostalgia, excitement, and passion to get you back to being the reading machine you truly are! 2) Make an achievable goal.[…]
10 Greatest Classic Horror Stories of all Time
When looking at the Greatest Classic Horror Stories of all time we are defining classic here as anything that has not been published in contemporary times. I’m not defining contemporary times in any strict way here.
How to Promote Your Ebook in the Real World
How do I promote my ebook in the real world? I got this questions the other day. Well really the author was telling me that he wrote an ebook, so places like books stores and coffee houses were out
Creating an audiobook: 7 tips to make your writing sounds great
Despite the huge popularity of audiobooks, a majority of books has never been recorded. It is an inexcusable authors’ mistake
Going to be a Writer? Here are 5 things you need to love.
There is a tendency on the part of non-writers to romanticize the professional lives of writers. For many young writers starting out, this same romanticism is what drives them to write
Ways to Sell Your Self-Published Book
Selling books on the internet has become a massive industry, but breaking into the market is very difficult. Here are some tips on how to build and sell your self-published books online.
5 Reasons to get a Degree in English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature courses have always proved to be extremely popular and are offered as undergraduate programs by most universities
Build a Successful Writer’s Platform
Writers who are looking to be professional and successful in today’s world are learning that it takes much more than a book deal to get you writing for a living.
10 Reasons to Keep a Writing Journal
Journals, because of computers and typing everything we write, are really becoming a think of the past. That’s a shame. You can get so much out of writing a journal.
Classic Articles
MY PASSION FOR FERRIES by Walt Whitman
This is a wonderfully short piece written by Walt Whitman. Honestly the more you know about Whitman the more interesting this subject becomes. The essay was written in 1892. Living in Brooklyn or New York city from this time forward, my life, then, and still more the following years, was curiously identified with Fulton ferry,[…]
Of Beauty by Francis Bacon
VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neither is it almost seen, that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue; as if nature were rather[…]
The Poetry of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot
“All talk on modern poetry, by people who know,” wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in Poetry, “ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant.
My Visit with Ralph Waldo Emerson by Walt Whitman
Whitman records their last meeting in journal entries are below. They are fascinating if you are a fan of American poetry. On September 17, 1881 Whitman goes to see Emerson.
Mark Twain Plagiarized Oliver Wendell Holmes
Once again we have found a quip from Twain that we feel needs to be highlighted in the pages of history. Twain is one of our favorite writers, especially when it comes to writing about writing.
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A virus that makes people zombies is sweeping through the 3rd world. Describe the characteristics of the virus.
The beautiful but barren Hymettus—the whole coast of Attica, her hills and mountains, Pentelicus, Anchesmus, Philopappus, etc., etc.—are in themselves poetical, and would be so if the name of Athens, of Athenians, and her very ruins, were swept from the earth. But am I to be told that the “nature” of Attica would be more[…]
The Shakespeare society of New York, which is really about the only useful literary organization in this country, is making vigorous efforts to redress an old wrong and atone for a long neglect. Sunday, Sept. 22, it held a meeting at the Poe cottage