Kneeled or Knelt – What’s the Difference?
The Beauty of Rejection, part 1
by Kim Liao Last year, I got rejected 43 times by literary magazines, residencies, and fellowships—my best record since I started shooting for getting 100 rejections per year. It’s harder than it sounds, but also more gratifying. In late 2011, a writer friend was sharing her experiences of having months of uninterrupted writing time at
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Tone 101: How Words Can Trigger Specific Emotions
When the right tone is employed, writing can transcend the words on the page. It’s what allows writers to create complex characters, to build a world that feels real. “Tone, to me, is like the Harry Potter house-elf of craft,” says author and sensitivity reader Dennis Norris II. “If I remember the language of something
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