Tag: Writing Poetry

by CG FEWSTON October 16, 2014
Fiction Non-Fiction Pictures

*** 140th Post *** Manuscript Found in Accra (2012) by Paulo Coelho & the Keys to Success

A book you’d like to keep by your bedside to read a chapter each night before sleep or upon waking early in the morning.

by CG FEWSTON April 27, 2014
Fiction Poetry

The Greensboro Review: Fall 2013, Issue 94 (Price $8.00 usd) & the NC-Greensboro Syndrome

The University of North Carolina – Greensboro’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing publishes a poetry and fiction review called The Greensboro Review. I happened to read the Fall 2013, Number 94 issue, having received a copy only because I paid a small fee to have my own fiction submitted to the review.

by CG FEWSTON March 18, 2014
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

**Author Spotlight** Margaret Atwood by Prof. CG FEWSTON

Atwood studied Moodie, wrote about Moodie, and both Atwood and Moodie lived and wrote about the Canadian wild and the female who is transformed by it. However, Moodie is not the only Canadian writer to have influenced Margaret Atwood and the short story “Death by Landscape.”

by CG FEWSTON March 2, 2014
Fiction Non-Fiction

Master Class in Fiction Writing (2006) by Adam Sexton

Master Class in Fiction Writing (2006) by Adam Sexton is a useful tool and guide along the way of crafting memorable fiction.

by CG FEWSTON February 24, 2014
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Videos

Cormac McCarthy’s Never-Ending, Questionary Road (2014) by American Novelist CG FEWSTON

In most of Cormac McCarthy’s books there is usually a male character on some sort of quest.

by CG FEWSTON February 17, 2014
Non-Fiction

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell is the book that awakened in writers and storytellers in publishing and in screenwriting to the larger scope of mythology as metaphor and to the underlining structure of stories.

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
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The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”