Amanda Price is an ardent Jane Austen fan. She is bored with her job during the day and frustrated with her boyfriend Michael at night. In between she “patches” herself up with Jane Austen. One evening she is home alone enjoying yet again the…
The review for Lost in Austen was originally written 12/30/2008 for Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Lost in Austen can now be read at Squid Lit.
Depending On Your Point of View – Part Two The previous post examined the different types of character driven points of view (POV). This post will deal with the narrative POV in its simplest terms. Remember narrative POV is independent of the main characters of the novel. He narrates the story but he is not…
Novels, on average, have about 300 pages. At 250 words a page that would make a 75,000 word novel. Regardless of the abundance of words, it’s the first few pages that determine a reader’s interest in a story and whether they will
Lionsgate Home Entertainment celebrated the twenty-two year anniversary of the film Ironweed by releasing it to DVD for the first time (coincidentally the main character returns home after twenty-two years). It is based on the William Kennedy´s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. The review for the movie Ironweed was originally written 3/9/2009…
Reviewed for BIW by Connie Weber Instead of giving her reader lots of philosophical and biographical information, in her book Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin gently guides writers through a series of exercises to help focus and hone the writing. She quotes classic literature from Jane Austen to Mark Twain to Virginia Woolf,…
I came across this cute little site yesterday with the tag line “free ebooks by the gals” and I was instantly enamored. The site was started and is run by Laura McDonald who says she´s “finally making use of her BA in English she got 10
I watched I’m Going to Tell You a Secret last night and quite enjoyed it. It was a behind-the-scenes look at Madonna and her interactions with her dance troupe and family during her Re-Invention World Tour. There was a lot of relevant dialogue about religion, politics, relationships (romantic love versus true love) and family but…