A Chart That Diagrams Closing Sentences From Classic Novels
The closing lines of novels are grammatically different than their opening lines. Here's how.
The closing lines of novels are grammatically different than their opening lines. Here's how.
Hilde Lysiak's publication covers fires, fundraisers, and town hall meetings.
The author liked to hunt big game. He also liked to eat it.
When an author dies with their work unfinished, do we let it molder in vaults, stash it away in archives, or publish it for all the world to see—even if that’s not what the writer wanted?
Author Kurt Vonnegut hated interviews, but when he did give them, his insights into writing were especially valuable, sage, and practical.
He was always on the lookout for new words, which he kept in a growing file on his computer.
The narrator of 'The Call of the Wild,' a dog named Buck, was based on a real dog that author Jack London met in the Klondike.
It should come as no surprise that she had very specific plans she wished to be followed upon her passing.
"You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing."
Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel 'Jane Eyre' was an instant hit—and many of its themes were taken from the author's real life.
Forget “under 30” or even “under 40” lists. Some of the world's most celebrated writers didn’t hit their literary stride until their mid-forties or later.
Today is National Handwriting Day! Although we don't write like we used to, here are four ways handwriting is still helpful.
Polish up on this list of words and phrases from Robert Burns’s complete works. Highlighting the imagination of his Scots language, they are ripe for revival by Robbie revelers old and new.