Tag: Mark Twain
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Literary Criticism
I do reviews on this blog, sometimes meh, rarely AUGH get it out of my brain!! and mostly good. I will never rise to the level Mark Twain did, in his masterful critique of James Fenimore Cooper… I’m sharing parts of it (and you can find it in whole here, and to download free here)…
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Breaking the Rules
I’m a bit of an iconoclast, if you read my blog you will have noticed that already. Indie author, on the cusp of that being acceptable (although I predict it will become the norm), not one to go along with teh litewawy dahlings, preferring to read for story, not message…. My First Reader sent me…
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Humor, Writing, and Reading
Yesterday I was seriously under the weather, so I didn’t post the review I had intended to, my apologies… I also didn’t write today’s post at Mad Genius Club, that would be my First Reader, who brought his wit and humor to the topic of… humor in writing. The spark for that came partly from…
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Truth is strang…
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. Mark Twain
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Reactions to a Story
This is a bit of my homework for a class I am taking, Comp. & Lit. A story was read aloud to us in class, and these are my reactions, both as I heard it, and after a day of musing on it, with the three questions I will be turning in as homework. I…