Essays on Being a Writer

WHAT IS LEFT IN THE SUN Spread before me Are the remains of the day; The scattered beads of a rosary, The half drunk bottle Of cheap liquor, broken neck Slowly leaking escape, The silence of a room in a blistered sky Whose pillars have…

Introduction Writing academic papers might be a hard task to do when the vocabulary one possesses is considered to be not enough. Academic papers usually require a high level of the language command and are checked with scrutiny and carefulness by supervisors. It also applies…

Source material is a rich foundation for many literary texts, including novels, short stories, and poems. However, it takes a skilled author to select a source material—a character, a topic, a theme, an event, an idea, etc.—and transform it into a unique work that is…

Love a short story A great short story can take me on a ride, deposit me in delicious emotional upheaval, or prompt ongoing thought. Only, not all short stories are a pleasure to read. The truth about short stories is that they can be dull….

When writing prose, one expects either first or third person, but not both which O’Callaghan does in his goth novella, “Nothing on Earth”. Lodge (p. 88, 1988) states that writing in the two tenses “can disorientate the reader” and disrupt “logical relationships between the concepts…

Imaginary with your intelligence, powerful with your fingers and dedicated with your heart, is a way I describe myself as a writer. Imagine yourself having full control on what could be an extraordinary story. Making every detail, sentence, middle and ending, just having ability to…

Thien dives into China’s history and culture in her novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, making it worthy of studying in both literature and history courses. Thien’s book centers on two family lines and although they seem separated geographically, their history links them together….