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The News -
Writing
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Written by guardian.co.uk
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The hardest part of this confession has already been made. It is easier to admit an unwelcome truth to the world than to admit it to yourself, and I faced this one in late 2003. I was going to Pakistan, and bought a guidebook in the Footprint series, written by Dave Winter and Ivan Mannheim. I was enjoying the book until I came across the following sentence: "The albedo of Gilgit's brown, barren hills is high, and the heat from the sun just seems to bounce around the bowl that the town sits in." |
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Books, Authors and Poets
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Written by guardian.co.uk
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At any one time crime fiction will usually boast a writer, most often someone just below the level of the best known or biggest seller, who is hailed by insiders as the best in the business. In the 1970s it was Elmore Leonard and in the 80s James Ellroy. Throughout the 90s the cognoscenti's vote consistently went to James Lee Burke, whose darkly moralistic evocations of crime and punishment in Louisiana and Montana probed the shifting boundaries between the powerful and powerless, past and present, and, especially, good and evil in modern America. |
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The News -
Copywriting
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Written by Tina Young
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"A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident." W. Somerset Maugham
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The News -
Writing
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Written by Joy Cagil
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For a writer, creating stories is like creating life, and plays bring stories to life with intensity. In a writer's life, the internal urge to do the best he can and to shine with creative ability is a fundamental emotional necessity. As a writer, you might say, " I am already a storywriter; why would I bother with a play?" Surely, no one can make you write what you do not want to write; however, even a good writer can learn a lot from writing plays.
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