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Art requires both substance and style. That is what makes it art, and not mere instruction. Aristotle and Homer and Tolstoy and Elmore Leonard were big on rules that would supposedly make a science of the art of fiction. Aristotle also told us that human disease was merely the imbalance of...

Although I'm really liking Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout), I watched the 5-part Mildred Pierce over the weekend, and it was so amazingly, phenomenally good (with incidentally and incongruously by far the best classical singing I've ever heard in a TV program, by an evil character with...

:giggle::giggle::giggle: Now that's original

Writers of note have (most?) often been "surprised to learn of" the symbolism in their works when informed by critics, teachers, and younger generations. Some have said so straight out. Writers since 1960 or so (i.e., our post-modernist era) are generally more overt rather than symbolic in...

Personal pronouns in Finnish are unigender. You can't distinguish male from female with them alone. You have to resort to alternate descriptors like the girl, the woman, etc. But there are also no definite articles, so a girl vs the girl is often vague, implied by sentence structure.

The acquittal means they were not adjudicated to have done it. It does not mean they have been adjudicated not to have done it. OJ was a factual murderer although not a legal murderer. And he was not found innocent, he was found not (provably) guilty,

I could never write an entire book in present tense, and probably not an entire short story or chapter. I have a fairly discreet taking-of-virginity scene that nonetheless switches to present-tense fragmented recollections for a few sentences at a critical moment—less than a dozen sentences...

Many women would describe that as lamentably realistic in their experience.

I don't believe I've ever read purple literary prose. It's practically an oxymoron. Successful literary fiction is rarely even florid, let alone purple. I've seen plenty of purple genre prose, though, and even seen books encouraging it. Something like Olive Kitteridge is extremely plain yet...

2 things: Can we get a Meta-style heart-hug sympathy / commiseration icon added to the standard list of reaction emojis? Many is the time I've wanted to use it where I wouldn't outright red-heart a comment here. Also, could the laughing icon become a less hyperbolic version? Just the...

That's why you chose Finnish?

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That would tend to give away the game. Getting smashed with a bottle, especially a wine bottle, should cause much worse than a subdural hematoma. It should cause a fatal skull fracture.

Anyone have or know of experiences using 99designs.com for book covers or graphic elements for use on them? The samples look promising. I don't need a full cover, only two elements I intend to incorporate.