How does the first line of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road compare grammatically of those of George Orwell’s 1984, H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451? They all get the ...
As countries across the world issued stay-at-home orders and enacted lockdowns due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, many people have a lot of time on their hands. People are picking up new hobbies ...
When I was her student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the novelist Marilynne Robinson told our class it was almost unthinkable for women of her generation to become writers. Society afforded women ...
Do you think it’s essential to start a novel with a dynamite first sentence? —Mark S. Absolutely. Your first sentence must entice, impress, surprise, and maybe even shock the reader. With all the ...
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