Writing Articles (Sorted by date)

Writing Help

Whether you are working for a small business, large corporation, or are a student, there are numerous sources that you can turn to for help with writing.
Jack ThompsonJanuary 04, 2005

English as a Medium For Indian-Writer

In a paper at Regional Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Held at India International Centre ,New Delhi on February23-6,1975,R.Parthasarathy , while exposing the position of Indian writers in English...
Samir K. DashJanuary 04, 2005

Is the Formula of 'Professor of Terror', a Hoax?

The most remarkable thing I found in Orientalism, the reputed revolutionary text by Edward Said -- more famously dubbed as the ‘Professor of Terror’ since 1999 by the rightwing American magazine Commentary – is the point where he...
Samir K. DashJanuary 04, 2005

Absurdity of Absurd: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

What does ‘Absurd’ mean ?When I searched the glossaries ,I found the word to be ‘out of harmony’(1).But yet the definitions trying hard to explain the term , just to end in total ‘Absurdity’ (assuming for a while...
Samir K. DashJanuary 04, 2005

The Stool Pigeon and the Indian Lake

It never occurred to me that Norman would chicken out and become a stool pigeon. He was aggressive, a good athlete, a gambler, (for baseball cards and streetcar transfers), a veteran explorer of our neighborhood and Crotona Park.
Irving Itchy BronskyJanuary 03, 2005

The Subject And Object Theory

I am Tushar Jain, a student of literature. This subject, literature, is one which is susceptible to every clause scripted, every letter sculpted, and is liable to get one enamored by vacuous words like ‘subjective’.
Tushar JainJanuary 01, 2005

10 Ways To Generate New Articles Ideas And Topics

1. Brainstorm for new ideas. Add your brainstormed ideas to an idea file that you can go back to when you are stuck for a topic. Also add ideas you get from other sources into this file so that you'll always have a fresh source of inspiration.
Ken HillJanuary 01, 2005

What's in a Name? Giving Birth to your Characters

So you’ve got your plot outlined, a title lined up and the research is done. You’re ready to start writing your novel. But wait. Now comes the fun part: creating names for your characters.
Celise DownsDecember 31, 2004

Poetry Techniques

The style of writing poetry differs from person to person; long or short meters, three or four lines to a stanza. But the great thing is, no matter how a poem is written it still holds great emotion.
Gary R. HessDecember 23, 2004

When The Writer Is Dead

Imagine – the sun pouring in, the fingers feeding in on the typewriter, a turgid film of sweat on the gristly brow, a tackling writer milling in the temerity to finish a single draft, 700 words or maybe 7000 words.
Tushar JainDecember 23, 2004