Today, in preparation for the class I am teaching at Central Piedmont Community College, I am thinking about what makes a memorable antagonist. All writers are tempted to create absolutely good protagonists or absolutely evil antagonists. But as Robin Hemley points out in Creating Fiction, "Most people are neither all good nor all bad, and… Continue reading Creating Mr. Bad Guy
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Grammar Myths
If you don't already subscribe to Delancey Place, this excerpt might convince you. Five days a week you'll receive e-mail excerpts from a variety of nonfiction books. Subjects are as varied as the stars in the night: you'll read about ancient Rome, the Basque bombing of Guernica in Spain, Fidel Castro, or Central Park in… Continue reading Grammar Myths