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Cakepan II: Chapter Four – Going Down

December 13, 2011

This is a creative writing experiment, shamelessly stolen from the Chopin Manuscript: a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. The members of this blog are each writing their own chapter, and we’re calling ours the “Cakepan Manuscript”. This is our second story. For this story we used a random plot generator, which [...]

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Cakepan Manuscript – Chapter Four: Getaway Plan

October 18, 2011

This is a creative writing experiment, shamelessly stolen from the Chopin Manuscript: a serialized story where each author writes a different chapter. The members of this blog are each writing their own chapter, and we’re calling ours the “Cakepan Manuscript”. You can start reading at Chapter One, which began with the premise: “An unemployed teacher, [...]

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To Finish or Not to Finish?

June 27, 2011

At what point is it okay not to finish reading a book? Ten pages in? Fifty? This is a quandary I have been facing this week as I’ve worked my way through the opening chapters of a novel that, by all accounts, I should like. It has been well-received by critics. The topic is one [...]

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Modern Female Archetypes: The Succubus

March 2, 2011

  We’ve seen it plenty of times. A group of guys who’ve been friends for years suddenly find their world disrupted by the arrival of a new female. She typically enters the scene on the arm of one of the fellows, and the others tolerate her because of their loyalty to their buddy. But before [...]

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Storytelling and Literary Fiction

December 22, 2010

Image via Wikipedia I once heard someone jokingly define literary fiction as: “A type of book where nothing really happens, but you still feel sad at the end anyway.” While this may be something of an exaggeration (albeit a slight one), much of what today’s literati label as “moving” or “evocative” is often devoid of what [...]

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