Monday, March 8, 2004
Allow Me Now to Introduce "Griffin and Sabine"
You are ALL most capable of being published. Your blogs are the stuff of readership and publishing is just one more step. "Griffin and Sabine" by Nick Bantock is a perfect example of what can be done with minimalist literary effort. BUT it does have talent. You all have a talent. I work with...
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Thursday, March 4, 2004
I Told You That Your Poetry Made Better Prose and Now I'll Prove It
I am adding a lead in and a close to wrap up Ariala's latest Poetic offering...makes better prose... You walked into the landing dock like you were walking onto a starcruiser. Your hat strategically dipped below one eye, your scarf, it was apricot. You had one eye in the mirror as you watched...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Free Verse is for Lame-os and Here is Someone We All Love Doing It All the
Time! Ariala's latest poetically challenged attempt at public intimacy has caused the Griffster to pen this blog on her stuff it is a thing about rhyming. I love a good turn of the phrase, a wedding of unusual proportions as much as the next guy, but poetry is about the mastery of words to describe...
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Saturday, February 28, 2004
This Is What an Exceptional Sentence Should Look Like
The below sentence was excerpted from the below paragraph from the novel " Kai Lung's Golden Hours." It is the first paragraph of the novel. I just wanted to share some exceptional syntax that is there and how it might make all of our prose a bit more entertaining. "At this display the elder and...
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Friday, February 27, 2004
Well, Well, Well, What Have We Here...?
Great News! I had an editor get back to me about Infinite Perfect Love with a comment that has set me on a mission! Apparently my writing style is akin to one Ernest Bramah and his Kai Lung's Golden Hours series. And I believe this after having read only a small part. The reviews at amazon are from...
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Thursday, February 26, 2004
The Word Badger Wants You!
Just a short blog to point out something that has been bothering me for over a week here at the BN. I've noticed several bloggers using the word "definitely" and spelling it "definately." If it was only an isolated incident I would say nothing. But it is the same mispelling across the board. Just...
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Friday, February 20, 2004
Most of You Stink as Writers' - Griffin's List of Worst Sentences
There is a place for all of us to go with our worst stuff. The Annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a great place to refresh your literary sensibilities by proving that you can pen the worst opening sentence to a novel. 2003 Winning Entry: They had but one last remaining night together, so they...
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