Background: I am writing my travel memoir and to encourage me and help me maintain a fan base I have a travel blog. My blog,has stories from many...
Thank you, but even so, my prose is lacking, I am much more reading to do.
Steinbeck only wrote "roared softly" which is a brilliant description of the sounds insects can and do make. I dont find taking that description...
Yes the first 18 words are identical, and thus stolen. Although I do like to idea of "colossal jungle" I can find a use for it. I don't plan on...
The UV lights buzzed, sending out it's delicious signal. The Cockroaches lifted themselves from grasses and nearby trash piles. Cockroaches roared...
I spent the last year traveling the world and reading, I read 30 books in order to advance my knowledge of writing. Sadly they were not prose...
Ok then what if I am reading a book, and I see a small description I like, something small like Steinbeck's "flies roared softly" and I think hey...
Thanks for the tips, they are wonderful, all of them. Another question, how does one come up with Steinbeck like prose? Also, in general, should...
If I copy prose, is it Plagiarism? I don't mean a whole paragraph, but a simple description. "The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark green as to...
I love a good bit of prose, Steinbecks grapes of wrath is magical. I am trying to write my own tale, a nonfiction piece. I wonder if my writing is...
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