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		<title>How to Write a Short Story</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rachelle Arlin Credo
Everybody knows writing a story is not easy. Like the drama or the poem, it is imaginative literature that should appeal to the emotions of the readers. Since it communicates the writer’s interpretation of reality, there must be an artistic use of language to signify human experience. But how do we write [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modestowritersgroup.wordpress.com&blog=887448&post=13&subd=modestowritersgroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third person</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Third person limited became the most popular narrative perspective during the 20th century. Third person limited is sometimes called the "over the shoulder" perspective; it shows the story as though the narrator could only describe events that could be perceived by a viewpoint character. It can be used very objectively, showing what is actually happening without the filter of the protagonist's personality, which can allow the author to reveal information that the protagonist doesn't know or realize. However, some authors use an even narrower and more subjective perspective, as though the viewpoint character were narrating the story; this is dramatically very similar to the first person, allowing in-depth revelation of the protagonist's personality, but uses third-person grammar. Some writers will shift perspective from one viewpoint character to another.

Historically, the "third person omniscient" perspective was more common. This is the tale told from the point of view of the storyteller who knows all the facts. The primary advantage is that it injected the narrator's own perspective and reputation into the story, creating a greater sense of objectivity for the story. The disadvantage of this mode is that it creates more distance between the reader and the story. A variation is where the narrator is a character in the story; a small amount of the story might be told in first person.

There is also a "Third person objective" perspective which tells a story without detailing any characters' thoughts and instead gives an objective point of view. This point of view can be described as "a fly on the wall" and is often used in newspaper articles. For instance the writer is restricted to not being able to use I, me or my.
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captnmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer&#8217;s voice is a literary term used to describe the individual writing style of an author. Voice is a combination of a writer&#8217;s use of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works). Voice can also be referred to as the specific fingerprint of an author, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modestowritersgroup.wordpress.com&blog=887448&post=11&subd=modestowritersgroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Writing and Other Essays, Robert Louis Stevenson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captnmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem so perhaps only in the proportion of our ignorance; and those conscious and unconscious artifices which it seems unworthy of the serious artist to employ were yet, if we had the power to trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmonies in nature. This ignorance at least is largely irremediable. We shall never learn the affinities of beauty, for they lie too deep in nature and too far back in the mysterious history of man. The amateur, in consequence, will always grudgingly receive details of method, which can be stated but never can wholly be explained; nay, on the principle laid down in Hudibras, that

‘Still the less they understand,
The more they admire the sleight-of-hand,’

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		<title>How to Write a PhD Thesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captnmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are about to begin, writing a thesis seems a long, difficult task. That is because it is a  long, difficult task. Fortunately, it will seem less daunting once you have a couple of chapters done.  Towards the end, you will even find yourself enjoying it&#8212;an enjoyment based on satisfaction in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modestowritersgroup.wordpress.com&blog=887448&post=8&subd=modestowritersgroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captnmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In truth, good writing always involves revision—which is a process of rethinking your ideas, honing your argument, and finding new ways to say more precisely what you mean.

Levels of Revision: Ideas Before Sentences and Mechanics

Revision can take place on different levels and at various times during the process of writing a paper. Sometimes students mistakenly think of revision only as fixing punctuation, doing a spell-check and a quick read-through. While you must do this type of editing before you hand in a paper, this is revision on its most elementary level. Far more important is the revision of ideas and substantial stylistic revision.

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		<title>Mark Twian, on production of words</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captnmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the rest of The Innocents Abroad in sixty days and I could have added    a fortnight&#8217;s labor with the pen and gotten along without the letters altogether.    I was very young in those days, exceedingly young, marvelously young, younger    than I am now, younger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=modestowritersgroup.wordpress.com&blog=887448&post=6&subd=modestowritersgroup&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New meeting time</title>
		<link>http://modestowritersgroup.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/new-meeting-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>captnmike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meetings will be moved from Mondays, to Sundays at 7 pm.
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