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Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress

March 4, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

Nancy Kress is a well-known writing instructor. I was in a lecture just like week where the instructor quoted Ms. Kress. She’s an easy educator to read. Her style is smooth and conversational. In this book, subtitled “Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints” she deals with the more common aspects of writing: developing characters, showing them emoting, and the different points of view you can use as a writer when telling your character’s story. Her format is easy to read and […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #writing, Characters, emotion, nancy kress, Viewpoint

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #writing, Characters, emotion, nancy kress, Viewpoint ·
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Oh! To be sixteen once again

October 9, 2018 by getoffmylawnn 2 Comments

  As a 16 yo, I didn’t experience a first love. A couple of crushes, but none of them were anything more than an occasional glance in the lift, or a quickening of pulse when they appeared in front of me. To read Rainbow Rowell describe it so minutely in normal-speak without being elaborate is a welcome peek into a world when feelings run amok, you barely understand what’s happening and yet you feel so much (so – much like my current mid-thirties, GOTCHA, dumb-ass […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, bingo, CBR10 Bingo, cbr10bingo, emotion, heartache, Love, music, Rainbow Rowell, So Popular!, teens, YA

getoffmylawnn's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, bingo, CBR10 Bingo, cbr10bingo, emotion, heartache, Love, music, Rainbow Rowell, So Popular!, teens, YA ·
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I Am Loved

July 3, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Ashley Bryan has hand-selected a dozen poems by Nikki Giovanni that cover the theme, “I Am Loved” then illustrated with their signature style artwork. Other than saying how beautiful the poems are or saying how amazing Giovanni’s words are, there is little to say about the lyricalness of them. They are classic Giovanni. They portray depth, feeling and show how much Giovanni cares about the theme and the subject. Other than saying how beautiful the illustrations are or saying how amazing Bryan’s work is, there […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Ashley Bryan, emotion, Feelings, Love, Nikki Giovanni, poems

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:243 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Ashley Bryan, emotion, Feelings, Love, Nikki Giovanni, poems ·
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