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Definitely classics. When I was a kid, my dad persuaded me to memorize Kipling's "If" and "Norman and Saxon AD 1100," and I was hooked...as I think he sort of expected I'd be. Actually, I can still recite both, and along with them works by Poe, Longfellow, Shakespeare, and even the Apostle Paul.
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Definitely classics. When I was a kid, my dad persuaded me to memorize Kipling's "If" and "Norman and Saxon AD 1100," and I was hooked...as I think he sort of expected I'd be. Actually, I can still recite both, and along with them works by Poe, Longfellow, Shakespeare, and even the Apostle Paul.
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Anywhere at all--that's the beauty of it.
Inspiration's not specific to a time or place. I often have my best ideas while driving, and some of my best writing's been done while I'm pulled off to the side of the road. I wrote a great sonnet one time on the shoulder of Route 219 South between...
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Anywhere at all--that's the beauty of it.
Inspiration's not specific to a time or place. I often have my best ideas while driving, and some of my best writing's been done while I'm pulled off to the side of the road. I wrote a great sonnet one time on the shoulder of Route 219 South between Somerset and Jennerstown, during a rainstorm.
I am totally in need of a major haircut.
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I am totally in need of a major haircut.
Different writers work with different styles. Mario Puzo in "The Godfather" created a sensation in 1969 by including in his novel a peripheral character who was a very thinly-disguised version of singer Frank Sinatra, and using in the book's narrative one of the apocryphal stories of Sinatra's...
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Different writers work with different styles. Mario Puzo in "The Godfather" created a sensation in 1969 by including in his novel a peripheral character who was a very thinly-disguised version of singer Frank Sinatra, and using in the book's narrative one of the apocryphal stories of Sinatra's casting in "From Here to Eternity" to describe the power and ruthlessness of the Mafia. Puzo's gimmick worked well within the boundaries of his novel...well enough to create a buzz, and sell a lot of books.
I don't write a lot of fiction anymore, but when I did I tried to craft wholly imaginary characters, and assign to them distinctive character traits I'd observed in other people. I always found that those unique qualities and even character flaws were, and are, the same elements which make us all human...and therefore also a practical tool to make a fictional character more persuasive and believable.