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[alcordraws]

Buncha little oc doodles

[coffinschool]

Surly C on the beat

[tnbtheories]

Awesome insight with Robin Black.

[whoknityou]

Knitting and listening to my favourite song on the bus on my way to MUN.

[therumpus]

One reader is the theoretical general public whom you’re hoping will be interested in, or, let’s be shameless, wowed by the work. This reader, however, is a slippery constituent. Try too hard to please, and you’ll please no one, especially yourself. That doesn’t mean I’m writing for myself; it simply means too much awareness of a public leads more often to self-doubt than confidence. The virtue, however, is that this conjectured reader can be a great motivator because you hope someone out there actually cares about what you write.

THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #69: Steven Schwartz

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Conflict In The Kitchen

Conflict In The Kitchen

Kitchens are wonderfully useful for writers. Of all the rooms in the house, the kitchen offers props for fleshing out body language beats. It offers implements that might kill you, as well as food that might sustain you. People naturally gather in kitchens, even people who despise each other. (more…)

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Is Animalification A Thing?

Is Animalification A Thing?

In literature, an object with human characteristics is called ‘personification‘.

Granting an animal human-like characteristics is called ‘anthropomorphism‘. (Anthropo = human being, as in ‘anthropology’. ‘Morph’ = change.)

Both personification and anthropomorphism are types of metaphors.

But what do you call it when it’s the other way round? i.e., when a human being is compared to an animal by…

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"Pine" Short Story by Robin Black

“Pine” Short Story by Robin Black

“Pine” is a short story from a collection called If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This published 2010, written by Robin Black. This is a wonderful example of a contemporary story loosely based on an old fairytale — this time it’s Bluebeard.

“Pine” is also an excellent example of a story which centers a homophone in which several of its meanings have been extracted for narrative purposes: Pine as…

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