Posts tagged imagery
While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
“thumbprint portrait” by cheryl sorg
(have a look at her etsy shop)
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
(via literary-hack)
Mary Grandpré
(via booksandhotchocolate)
(Source: chelsiecat, via thewrittenroad)
Writer's Relief Blog: "Writing Sex Scenes: How Much Is Too Much?"
We all know that sex sells. But when it comes to writing, it can be difficult to pull off a sex scene. In certain genres (like general fiction and memoir), a writer takes a big risk by exposing nitty-gritty details. An analogy explains why:
- A badly written scene is NOT the guy who lights up the party. But at least nobody pays attention to him.
- A badly written sex scene is the guy who does too many shots, gets up on the table to dance, hurls on his shoes, and then drunk-dials every ex-girlfriend in his phone before passing out in the bathroom.
In other words, when a love scene goes wrong, it goes really wrong. Sex scenes, especially bad ones, stand out.
The Composites book is now available!
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon DE
“Incredible…IQ84 meets CSI.” The Atlantic
“Brilliant, and refreshingly unsentimental.” The Guardian
The Composites includes 66 pages of character images from throughout literary history, full-color design, as well as excerpts from authors Herman Melville, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Victor Hugo, Bram Stoker, Gustave Flaubert, Mikhail Bulgakov, J.-K Huysmans, and Thomas Mann.
All royalties from this book will be donated to Joyland Magazine. Since 2008 Joyland—funded only by donations and grants—has had a mandate to support and publish emerging authors from across North America and around the world.
This entire project has been a collaboration with Tumblr users and that collaboration has changed everything about myself as a writer and as a reader. For that, and making this project work, thank you. (And please keep sending the suggestions. The Composites will return next week after a brief vacation.)
‘Loved and Labored’ by Shoey Nam
I decided to produce series of portraiture pieces to scrutinize my curiosity of people’s faces as I think each tell a story of their own. I chose to illustrate a set of literature figures, as writers have the tendency to carry a certain haggardness and cynicism of the world on their faces, which are often reflected in their words.
(via wordpainting)
