I stood there, looking at the reflection of the beautiful sunset over the shining water at Sulfur Springs, worrying. As a reader I'd rather see what makes the scene beautiful to the speaker, rather than being just told that it's beautiful, like "Rays from the setting sun settled on rippling wa...

Aren't the books almost always better than the movies? Our imaginations can create scenes better than Hollywood ever could. Personally I thought the Shining by Stanley Kubrick beat the pants off its literary sibling And a movie's purpose isn't suppose to be a cheap imitation of the novel, it's to b...

If you want some good examples of sex scenes, I'd check out John Green's looking for Alaska and Atonement by Ian McEwan. Both use sex for a purpose. I would see how they wrote them and why, and what led up to these scenes and how they were executed. There's a lot more examples out there I'm sure, bu...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpFr_PXb74

It speaks to me like pure poetry.

I made a thread that tackles these kind of questions

http://www.booktalk.org/for-an-aspiring ... 14766.html

I think you'll find it quite stimulating

I finished the essay. It was incredible beyond words. It not only answered my question but helped me understand poetry and myself better. What's funny about this is that me and my english class once tore apart "The Naming of parts" theme by theme, metaphor by metaphor, to the point where w...

Thank you for your reply. I am reading that essay right now.

Yeah I guess I get way too over my head sometimes and forget about the experience.

I'm trying to figure out if I only need a general analysis of a novel or a deep, academic kind. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction I have a plan to read that entire list in 5 years (I have about 132 down so far), but I know that's not feasible if I'm spending a week say go...

It might work. Truman Capote jumped right in on that murder in Holcomb.

So go for it. Mr. Capote

Very interestign vignette... Do you think you will expand it? BTW, your writing style reminds me of Stephen King. (Intended as a compliment). I think I might expand it. I am taking a little break from it. And I was taking inspiration from Cormac Mccarthy :lol: but I'll take Stephen King as a compli...