Category: Fiction
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Fiction: Sex and the Single Girl
The story ranges from love and romance to questions of faith and morality.
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“The only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings is that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves.”
WHAT IS IT ABOUT MIDDLEMARCH? George Eliot’s take on fatuous female authors (and more) in this article about Eliot’s goodness. “The author then describes the many literary offenses these fatuous females commit. They are incompetent at verisimilitude: ‘Their intellect seems to have the peculiar impartiality of reproducing both what they have seen and heard, and…
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Fiction: It’s Better to be Loved
“I was hoping you might like it and marry me,” Fahy said, twisting his mustache between his nervous fingers.
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How to Write Historical Fiction That Will Not Disappoint
Did you know claiming to be a historical fiction writer is controversial?
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Fiction: Sunday Morning
He still admired dress parade—it always made Sundays special—and then so humiliating when his father failed at them.
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Classic Family Sagas
“The family saga chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families. The typical novel follows the generations of a family through a period of time to portray particular historical events, changes of social circumstances, or the ebb and flow of fortunes from a multiple of perspectives.” (Goodreads)…