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Literary Fiction with a Purpose
If Shakespeare wrote plays and poems that became the bases of literary fiction, he also some times wrote plays with a purpose. The best example of such plays is the group of plays…
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Shakespeare and Jane Austen
Shakespeare is now generally acknowledged as a writer with several facets. By all standards he seems to be a leader among writers. Harold Bloom has considered him to be at the centre of…
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Literary Fiction & Shakespeare: A Scholarly Approach
I’ve written much on the nature of literary writing in my blog posts thus far but from now on for a few turns I will discuss two major issues: (a) What is Literary…
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What makes a Writer?
Writing comes when sources of fulfillment are blocked No one quite contented and happy would write anything to please people, particularly something about injustice, misfortune or suffering. The contented person would write only…
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Literary Agents
Literary agents and their meticulous work fascinate me. I presume several other authors feel the same about them. Perhaps agents are equally immersed in and captivated by the publishing process. Theirs is most…
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Fair is Foul
It is a fair world, I thought, as I grew up like a creeper. But I learned something different after some time. Fair is a subjective word. The boundary between fair and foul…
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What Makes One a Writer?
No one happy with themselves would write something to be read by people. That could happen only if that happiness acquires excitement and thrill and one wants to share it with others. Generally…
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Fictional Worlds & the Force of Fiction
Novels wield more force than films because they involve readers actively whereas films make viewers passive recipients.
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Authors of Colour Querying White-Skinned Agents
A novel’s birth has a threefold journey: writing it, finding an agent, and then the agent’s selling it to a publisher. Of these, writing the novel seems the easiest because the author has…
