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Writing Novel Tips: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
James as a child wanted above all else in his life to visit the lighthouse, but his father denies him that pleasure. But when James finally gets there, the real lighthouse isn’t as truthful as the remembrance of it as when he was a child. Of the two lighthouses, the imagined one is the loved one. Continue reading
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Remembered
Like all accomplished writers, Oscar Wilde uses an abundance of openers: infinitives, present and past participles, prepositions, similes, absolutes, conjunctions, etc. Just open the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and you’ll see. Continue reading
