Category: Writing Stuff
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Welcome Back!
School is back in session at Eastern New Mexico University and the Fall 2015 issue is well underway, which means El Portal is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2016 edition. Prose, poetry, flash fiction, photography, and art are welcome internationally! Deadline October 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here…
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Write West. Send it our way.
We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled ’85 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying for latte with his Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm…
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Cowpokes, aliens, writers, send us your submissions….
We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled ’85 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying for latte with his Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm…
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Breakdown of the Writing Process (via Writer’s Circle)
Be sure to check out the Writer’s Circle on Facebook.
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Infographic: Am I A Famous Writer Yet? (via Electric Literature)
Check out the original source (Electric Literature).
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Writing Pros: How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet
Open Culture featured an article discussing how J. K. Rowling plotted her Harry Potter stories using a hand-drawn spreadsheet (see image below). How do you plot your stories or novels? Check out the original article at Open Culture .
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These days, writing isn’t a career. It’s a rich man’s hobby (Telegraph)
Can writers still make a career out of writing? Does writing exclude working or middle class writers from its ranks? Is writing a rich man’s sport? Toby Young believes writing has become the hobby of the wealthy or those with comfortable retirement pensions (see excerpt below). These days, you need a substantial private income –…
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Influence and Homage: When Walt Whitman Met Oscar Wilde
It’s hard to imagine a meeting between two celebrities like Whitman and Wilde. However, history is full of surprises. During his stay in America, the youthful Wilde met with the aging poet Whitman. This meeting between Whitman and Wilde made a lasting impression on Wilde and how he handled his celebrity status. David M. Friedman’s…
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What are we now? Modernist? Postmodernist? How about metamodernist?
The Metamodernist Manifesto by Luke Turner 1. We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world. 2. We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child. 3. Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between…
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The World’s Greatest Storytellers (According to Raconteur)
Check out the original feature at Raconteur.
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