The Write Life

APRIL 1, 2023

If you’ve spent any amount of time in online reading or writing circles, you’ve probably come across posts like this titled ‘X Times Men Didn’t Know How to Write Female Characters,’ each featuring screenshots of tragically sexist prose. My point is, it’s not exactly news that badly-written women are an unfortunate feature in our media.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Poets use anastrophe as an easy rhyme scheme in poetry , and prose writers use it to sound… wiser? Chiasmus The Latin word “chiasm” refers to a “crossing,” so it makes sense that a chiasmus is a literary device where words, grammar constructions, and/or concepts are “crossed,” aka reversed. The concept comes from a character (Mrs.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Do you think you're much more of a visual person than a lot of the text-based writers? Then I did another one, I think, in 2012. Listening to the other side of it, where the prose people are so retailer-focused, is wild to me. Is that why you favored graphic novels and why you still do a lot of very visual projects?

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