Carter Blakelaw
1) CB's Top 100 Writing Tips, Tricks, Techniques and Tools From the Advice Toolbox - Break the Rules
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Based on more than a decade of writers' workshops and critique groups, this book draws useful lessons from weak writing, and presents these lessons as tenets, or rules.
In this book you will discover:
• 100 solid rules to apply to your fiction.
• The motivation behind each rule.
• The pros and cons of keeping-or breaking-the rules.
• Numerous examples of rule-keeping and rule-breaking.
• How every rule serves to keep the reader reading....
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Tune in to what is uniquely human about you, and channel a creativity that is beyond the reach of AI.
Painter, poet, composer, performer, or prose monkey--aspiring artist or seasoned pro--if you're after a deeper perspective, this book is for you.
To say that we humans 'feel' while an AI does not hardly scratches the surface.
In this book Blakelaw uses a specific theory of what makes us conscious to spell out what makes us different from--and superior...
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The howl of the bedside clock-radio carves through your dreams like a buzz-saw through butter, and you are awake. In another place.
Never mind the bright yellow sunlight that flecks your pillow and warms your face; you are rudely awake, and resent it. Gah!
You roll onto your side, cantilever your legs over the side of the bed and plant your feet squarely on the carpet. You rub your face. Massage your neck. Oh, what it is to be alive!--and conscious--oh...