Posts from the ‘Literary trivia’ Category

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    Characterization

    September 19th, 2012 | Characterization, Literary trivia | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    If plot is the skeleton upon which the meat of your story hangs, then characters are surely the heart and soul. Characterization is the art of presenting the people who populate your story. Characterization is, in essence, nothing more — or less — than the depiction of motive (a word, incidentally, that comes from the [...]

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    Literary Factoids

    August 8th, 2011 | Literary trivia, Quotes | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    Elie Wiesel’s Auschwitz novel Night was rejected by twenty American publishers. Charles Baudelaire spent two hours a day getting dressed. The genius poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins wanted to change his name to Pook Tunks. “I am a eunuch,” Gerard Hopkins told his friend and fellow poet Robert Bridges, “but it is for the Kingdom of [...]

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