by goldenlangur | Mar 18, 2012 | Interviews
GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS NOVELIST AND POET, CATHERINE EDMUNDS GL: In your signature you describe yourself as Novelist/Poet. Would you like to share a little about your writing as a novelist? How many novels have you published? What genre do you use? Are there any...
by goldenlangur | Feb 7, 2012 | Craft of Writing, Motivation, Writing Literary, Writing Micro, Writing Novels, Writing Poetry, Writing Prose, Writing Short Stories
STEPHEN KING, THE WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN WRITER, says that a writer must write the type of book/poetry that he/she wants to read. In his work, Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold (1822 – 88), the English poet and literary critic, argued that a society needs more...
by Nicola Morgan | Jan 29, 2012 | Craft of Writing, Grammar et cetera
YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT LAST YEAR I STARTED A SET OF CRABBIT’S TIPS FOR WRITERS. Here’s No. 5. To find the others, go to the list of labels on the right (scroll down) [on my blog] and choose Crabbit’s Tips for Writers. You can also go here to download...
by goldenlangur | Jan 24, 2012 | Craft of Writing, Motivation, Writing Literary, Writing Novels, Writing Poetry, Writing Prose, Writing Short Stories
IN THE PREFACE TO HIS STUDY OF ELIOT’S ANTI-SEMITISM (1995), Anthony Julius says: ‘. . . anti-Semitism beguiles, not just demagogues . . . but also creative artists of the highest quality. This usually surprises us, because we tend to sentimentalise our great...
by Sophie Playle | Jan 8, 2012 | Writing Novels
IN THIS, THE THIRD INSTALMENT OF THREE IN SOPHIE PLAYLE’S INVESTIGATION OF GENRE (following her recent attendance at the Paul Cornell talk [www.paulcornell.com] at the Bad Writing Symposium in London), the concept of genre itself is discussed. When is a Genre Not a...
