BVC Announces The Cursed Canvases by Marissa Doyle
The Cursed Canvases The Ladies of Almack’s #4 by Marissa Doyle Art is NOT always for art’s sake…as the Ladies of Almack’s discover
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The Things People Say: Sentence-like Sequences of Words
Today, communication fans, I’d like to dismantle four sentence-like sequences of words that have something in common: muddled meanings caused by a poor (or possibly clever) choice of words. Who said them and with what intent is irrelevant to the discussion. I leave it to you, Dear Reader, to attach significance in the broader realm …
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The Mathematics of Writing: All Art Forms Are Not Created Equal
Over the years, I’ve been called upon to move a story from one art form into another—to novelize a movie or play, to write a screenplay based on a story. I’ve based songs on stories and stories on songs or collections of songs. In fact, the very first attempt I made at a novel that …
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New Writers Ask: What is World-building?
One of the hardest things for some writers to learn is what goes into building a world in enough detail to engage the reader’s willing suspension of disbelief. This is especially important when writing about places that no one alive has actually visited either because they’re obscured by the mists of time or invented. What …
