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Archive for September, 2011


Book Review: The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)

THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN THE 1920s, looking back to the 1870s in the New York of wealthy and intertwined families living for social, cultural and sporting events. This deeply conservative society is disturbed by the arrival of a prodigal daughter – Ellen Olenska who, after a failed marriage to a rich Polish Count, returns to [...]

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Interview: Golden Langur

DEAN CODY CASSADY INTERVIEWS GOLDEN LANGUR. DCC: You hail from the Kingdom of Bhutan, a place of ‘exotic otherness’ for many Western writers. Could you explain something of the cultural heritage of your region of the world from which you, as a writer, draw? GL: It is a Tibetan Buddhist kingdom, where the Chief Abbot [...]

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How to write a REAL novel in 30 days

THE METHOD I’M TALKING ABOUT is, at once, totally bonkers-crazy (70,000 words or more in 20 days, for a full-length novel) and disciplined (a full edit or two in the remaining 10 days, ready for outside readers). It is aimed at writers who are serious about writing novels and who are able to commit 3-5 [...]

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Interview: Ian Rochford

GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS IAN ROCHFORD. GL: You seem to only write prose. Is there a conscious exclusion of poetry in the exploration of your ideas? IR: As a teenager I wrote reams of poetry, then the occasional one and a more recent burst when I joined WD [Writers' Dock] after EotW died. I don’t post [...]

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When the Going Gets Tough, Writers Tough it Out

YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN THE ECONOMIC TIDE TURNS, whether it be in the short or long term. There’s an easy barometer: Internet Gurus go into overdrive and start spamming their lists, once, twice, even three times a day. I know. I subscribe to a lot of them – purely for research purposes – and [...]

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