Fiction writing

Narrative Desire, Gregory Currie argues that an agent who desires some X in the imagination may be slanted to longing X in reality rule. This incorporates, however is not constrained to the imagination energy required to take part in film, writing and different fictions. Albeit regularly consider fictional desires as being both sound and tastefully refined, frequently view anecdotal longings as being undesirable in connection to this present reality. Along these lines, fictional desires may…

Armstrong. At a very young age Jennifer Armstrong knew that she was going to become a writer. Armstrong grew up in Salem, New York, and later in life graduated from Massachusetts’s Smith College. Once out of college, Armstrong began her writing career. Before she started writing her own books she started out as a ghostwriter for a successful book series. Jennifer Armstrong wrote the book called The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History, which is the book where the story An Offer…

Money can’t buy happiness, but a disconnect notice from the electric company sure impedes its pursuit. Rarity from the Hollow is my debut novel. Its protagonist, Lacy Dawn, and I have a lot in common. We were both born into impoverished families in West Virginia, had occasional difficulty doing homework because our families couldn’t pay the electric bill, but neither of us ever lost faith that there is light at the end of the tunnel. My father and Lacy Dawn’s father, Dwayne, also share a common…

poem are more than unlimited. Throughout the centuries, the inclusions and introductions of new devices in writings and the preferred writing style in each time period can clearly be seen by the public. From the medieval writing era to transcendentalism to realism, the ever-changing alterations of the popular writing style has left a mark on its specific time period. It is this shift of writing styles between…

world, and War and Peace is considered to be one of his best pieces of writing. But it is debatable whether or not War and Peace is a novel. Both Morson and Norton, and Tolstoy himself” have said that War and Peace “…is not a novel” (Morson, pg. 1090; Norton, pg. 75-76; War and Peace, pg. 1090). They believe to some extent that Tolstoy writes in absolute language because he was a visionary and thought through the novel while writing, and that everything he wrote was intentional. In the first…

relationships. In the introductory notes to an interview with Hempel about her book, “Reasons to Live”, Michael Schumacher states, “if you have any intention of understanding the short fiction of Amy Hempel, pain is where you start” (29). It seems that Hempel has a way of using her personal tragedy as a starting point for her fiction, allowing the reader to fully feel the emotions he is trying to…

Do you like mysteries? How bout historical fiction? Then Witness is the book for you! According to Goodreads.com, “ Karen Hesse Newbery award winning skills are put to great use in Witness, a poetic tale about friendship, fanaticism, and the deadly undercurrent of racial prejudice…” Some people may think that historical fiction is boring, but Karen Hesse does a wonderful job at writing poetically, foreshadowing, and expressing all of the character's emotions in her book Witness. The way that…

thread and the desire for closure and finally genre and character. If it is true that people have these tendencies, it could possibly mean that the media should be allowed to create fiction around facts, as it is human nature to do so, however this could also imply that the media is telling lies as reporters will add fiction to stories they are reporting, therefore distorting the ‘truth’. It can be identified that humans don’t possess these tendencies, as outlined…

Translation plays a significant role in conveying literary works of different cultures. It is the most important channel of communication as it creates a genuine unity between two societies of different awareness and cultures. Moreover, translation is a very important element in maintaining the domestic culture and identity which contribute to respecting the local characteristics of other societies and trying not to erase them. This leads to the enrichment and promotion of human civilization.…

Different touch of literary genre has been observed in Okri’s writing including aspects of life within Nigeria and in the World at large. Although these stories are speckled yet a common theme is threading the magical reality in all stories. For example; in the story 'Laughter Beneath the Bridge', the Biafran war is being told according to the viewpoint of a ten year old boy. If it had never occurred to you that wars could also shake the emotive life of younger children then read this short…