Fiction writing

writer that influenced a different vision of the black culture through her writings. Her life experiences are what led her to her creative thoughts in her writings. In Walker’s first book, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, it points of interest the distress and recovery of a provincial black family caught in a multigenerational cycle of brutality and financial reliance. In The Color Purple, one of Walker’s most famous writing, Walker describes a black woman that writes a series of letters to…

My Bio Note: I originally wrote this Bio for a web class I taught some years ago called Writing Fiction. I have continued to use it pretty much unchanged except for family updates, so if you have had me before you won’t find much new. It’s long for this assignment, not meant to be a model for yours. Make of it what you will; you deserve to know who your professor is. You may respond on the Biography Forum if you wish. I taught my first college English class in January of 1975 at Kent…

ENG1430 writing course, I finished my strongest and relatively weak essay; I grasped a most basic key as a writer with the help of my professor and classmates, and what’s more important is that I learned to enjoy loneliness in this freshman year. As far as I am concerned, the summary and response essay is my strongest one. In my observation journal on March 8, I regard it as “my old friend, my treasure, as it once became a part of my daily life”. Looking back at the whole process of writing it,…

Reader I am not person who likes to read a lot, only when it comes to school reading, then I will do it. I notice that reading is important in life because it helps with writing and speaking. I notice, I should read often everyday because it can help me improve with my reading and writing skills later in the future. Reading and writing is important because everyone needs to learn how write and speak good to communicate with people. People learn how to read to by pronouncing the letter out and…

the ages of 5-6 years old can understand. This text set will explore different kinds of weather and how it will affect people’s everyday activities. The text that will be used in this unit will be nonfiction and fiction. Nonfiction text will provide scientific facts about the weather; fiction text will provide students insight as to how fictional characters handle different kinds of weather. The literature to be presented will address different weather – rain, clouds, heat, snow and hurricanes.…

“The United States of Lyncherdom.” Mark Twain is considered the father of American literature. During his career he gained fame and notoriety for his works such as Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Besides his work in American fiction, Twain was also a notable anti-imperialist and abolitionist. Both of these ideas seeped into his essay “The United States of Lyncherdom” written in March 1901. Throughout most of the essay, Twain is commenting on the recent lynchings of three…

“ranging from comic books as a child through adventure books and into science fiction.” He “found books that opened new worlds” in the works of E.M. Forester and George Bernard Shaw, and his reading continued when he “gave in to the inevitable” and left college to join the Air Force. He read American writers like Hemingway and Faulkner as well as Russian writers, and his “voracious” reading prompted him to take a fiction class while stationed in Alaska. “I just took it because I’d been reading…

Short Story Elements by Emily Cassel First is the introduction and thesis: a short story is fiction that focuses on one or two main characters with one conflix. There are four main things to remember when writing these are setting, character, theme, and plot. Setting is where and when. Where is this place and what is the time of year or time of day this is the time to describe by keywords and details. Try to describe how you see the particular seen. The setting should change by what is happening…

A little background on Marshall Poe. “Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors.” Wikipedia is a very well known site to be an encyclopedia. Students constantly question why Wikipedia is a bad source and teachers will often fail students for using Wikipedia as a source for information, teachers try to have students understand that Wikipedia is not a…

Ernest Hemingway wrote seven outstanding novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction pieces. In Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, the author portrays the importance of man’s struggle against the forces of nature by creating a story interpreted as fable, fantasy, and fiction. This book observes a person who experiences trials and troubles, showing us the significance in his experience and clarifying that meaning. The Old Man and the Sea can be interpreted as a fable…