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A MARRY CHASE
Everyone agreed that from birth Bartholomew had been an exceptionally clever boy but now that he was nearly thirty-five they had begun to suggest that he had lost his edge. All his cousins were settled into little domestic circles of bliss but he hadn’t even found a girl who interested him or, for that matter, a girl who was interested in him. Not everyone desires to marry a rather plain,…
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2nd leads: Flowers from the Storm
2nd leads: Flowers from the Storm
A Writing Craft Review
Because the task of women’s adventure novels is the consolidation of two disparate characters into a working pair there is a genre wide assumption that both members of the couple will share the first lead position equally rather than one lead eclipsing a subordinate personality. Parity, however, is rarely achieved because even during a novel’s planning stages the writer…
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LIFE EXPECTANCY Every day he was to measure the ocean. On the first day they had explained the necessity of his task.
MALESTORM
Sometimes it is almost impossible to resist standing in the artist’s shoes. What he sees becomes what you see. How he sees it is the only way to see it. There is no background to interpret. No nuance to explore. Even the frame is one that he has chosen for you. You become a man who sees a woman as light and dark. She is the temptress who drowns the sailors but she is also the mermaid who drags…
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In Defeince of Caste Fiction
In Defeince of Caste Fiction
WRITING CRAFT REVIEW
I apologize to those of you who will resent my categorization of “All the Pretty Horses” as an especially well crafted novel in the caste fiction genre rather than referring to this and other similar novels as “literary” fiction.
My own investigation of writing craft has, however, forced me to disregard traditional classifications and look for patterns in the crafting of…
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Openings: "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy
Openings: “All the Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy
A WRITING CRAFT REVIEW
Creative writing instructors come armed with standard phrases: show don’t tell, use descriptive language, write what you know, use vibrant metaphors, no passive voice, etc. Good things to learn but the result is often what many reviewers praise as “beautiful” prose. I’m less generous and take the position that skilled writing craft requires that words do more than paint…
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MY WAY
Always eager for something new, the hare greedily indulges in the sights and sounds of the open road until he stops to investigate something interesting on the verge and . . . . He is a shameless generalist. Though it is not a particularly productive habit to become so easily distracted by one little mystery or another the hare doesn’t find the thought of winning a championship race or an…
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HOT ON THE WHEELS
HOT ON THE WHEELS
“O.K. Miss T. J. MacGuire. Must be Miss since this here letter of intro came from my Great-Aunt Helena who’s got the bug for me to breed for the family line. This latest ruse of hers isn’t up to snuff. Too obvious. The old bird likes her little games. An’ no art magazine’s gonna write up my cars. They’re nothing but toys, for god’s sake. I only let that pretty-boy decorator put’em up on those…
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THE CASTING COUCH
Hello darling. You look marvelous. So handsome. So manly. Sit! Sit! I must tell you all about my latest toy. Devastating! Really! Devine! Clever Ida, you must remember her, the pushy blonde from Vancouver with the little cleft in her, ah! She claimed the boy was spineless, lithe like I love them, so I took him on for a spin. At first he was reluctant to go with my plan but after Ida did a nice…
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BIOREVERSITY to: Gaia 4736 from: Biological Statistics & Intelligence re: Galapagos reclamation project Attached is our report on the reproductive cycle of the resident homo sapien variant, homo plunderus.
Openings: "Flowers from the Storm"
Openings: “Flowers from the Storm”
A WRITING CRAFT REVIEW
In the opening scene of Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsalecombines the standard task of introducing one of the novel’s main characters with the less standard task for genre novelists of establishing themes that will be revisited in later passages. Traditionally extended arguments in women’s adventure novels are confined to the rights of women or the poor in…
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Opening: "Master and Commander"
Opening: “Master and Commander”
The overriding crafting decision for the lead-off pages of a genre novel is how to establish a style that is consistent with content and structure of the whole book. Patrick O’Brian accomplished this by writing not one but two variations on his main theme for the opening of his sea adventure, Master and Commander, featuring Jack Aubrey, a naval officer with ambitions, and Stephen Maturin, a …
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YOUR EYES ONLY Pornographic, Senator? Pardon me, but I’m struggling to grasp the basis for your accusation. To me these appear to be nothing more than ordinary, plastic clown glasses.
TRACES OF SPRING
She had begun to notice little signs: white spots on the shower walls and sometimes on her glasses, the rising of the hair upon her arms, tiny sparks running like baby alligators across her eyelids when she stood up. Miniature fireworks. A private show. Last week there had been scattered glitter – purple and green and blue – blown in by a wind after her neighbors’ party. Yesterday bits of pink…
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The Opening to "The Nine Tailors"
The Opening to “The Nine Tailors”
Probably because early pulp writers were paid by the word overwriting continues to be a pervasive weakness in commercial novels. It is not unusual for mystery writers to grind out 4000 words simply introducing the setting, the primary characters, the crime to be solved – all the basic who, what, why, when, and wheres. The best writers in every genre try to avoid many of the pit-falls. In The…
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REALITY TEST
Some stories tell the whole shebang from the outside: Mr. Kenner was thirty-seven years old when he decided to give up his car and simply drive a tire. Some stories tell it from the inside: Hope and Pray. Yes or No. Will it go? Going! Going. Watch out ahead! Some stories proceed logically from cause to effect: Kenner had decided to begin living his life entirely by how it felt. When he woke up…
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LIVING THE GOOD LIFE Between times Charlize thinks of herself as Charlie. When her new Italian sandals cut into the tops of her feet she switches into Charlie’s comfy twice resoled Buster Brown’s.