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Evan Swensen The Art of Writing Multiple Points of View
Writers who tackle multiple points of view in fiction often compare it to conducting an orchestra. Each character must be …
Evan Swensen Pride, Prejudice, and a Pen Name
Have you ever had a secret so big, so juicy, you managed to keep it your entire life? No, not …
Evan Swensen From Silence to Voice
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.” In this single …
Carl Douglass HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
PART XII How to speak British beyond England (continued), course 302 West Indian and the Bahamas dialects: Bahamian English English is …
Evan Swensen Why No One’s Talking About Your Book—Yet
There’s a peculiar kind of quiet that follows a book launch. Not the satisfying hush of a job well done, …
Evan Swensen The First Novel Ever Typed
Mark Twain was a man of many firsts. He wrote some of the most beloved American novels, traveled the world, …
Evan Swensen Why Mediocrity Has No Place in Writing
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence.” Jean de La Bruyère’s words strike …
Carl Douglass School on a shoestring, a hope, a prayer, and a boarding house.
“Our second daughter was born shortly before Karl got accepted into pre-medicine at the University of Utah, which was then …
Evan Swensen Writing in the Dark
The biggest mistake an author can make isn’t a weak opening line or a sagging middle—it’s waiting until the book …
Evan Swensen The Gift That Changed Literature
Have you ever received a Christmas gift that changed your life? Maybe it was a childhood bicycle, a book that …
Evan Swensen The Power of Criticism
“It is, I think, as clear as daylight that literature can only be kept alive by criticism.” Henry James, a …
Carl Douglass HOW TO WRITE WITH ACCENTS, DIALECT, SLANG, COLLOQUALISM, AND ETHNICITY
PART XI How to speak British beyond England, course 301 For the sake of completeness and for brevity, we will …