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  1. Francine Prose Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for
    • It's Harder Than It Looks to Write Clearly ‹ Literary Hub

      Francine Prose Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for

  2. This is why you need to wait at least a month before doing a second draft or edits. When you first write, everything is so vivid in your brain that you think you are painting the picture better than you actually are. On future re-reads, you are distanced enough to see it like a reader will and see where you failed to paint the picture clearly ...
  3. writersanctum.com

    Author Topic: How to write clearly (essay by Francine Prose) (Read 958 times) Anarchist. Epic Novel unlocked; Posts: 1226; ... « on: January 26, 2023, 02:54:07 AM » Novelist Francine Prose wrote a great piece on clarity: "It's Harder Than It Looks to Write Clearly." As a reader, few things repel me as quickly as unclear writing. As a writer ...
  4. words-cat.com

    Explaining what it means to be clear should, in theory, be easy. But in fact it's surprisingly difficult to define this deceptively obvious concept. The simplest definition may be best: To write clearly means that another person can understand what we mean. Someone (not us) can figure out what we are trying to say.
  5. eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu

    It seems to me that being able to do that is harder than it looks because you have to use your voice to transport the reader, rather than trusting the written text to do it for you. [Read more →] ... To Francine Prose writing is a novel is "scarier" because there is a chance that it might not go anywhere". When questioned about her ...
  6. harvardmagazine.com

    The 2,000-square-foot vegetable plot—planted with fava beans, peas, arugula, raspberries, even artichokes—that author Francine Prose '68, A.M. '69, cultivates at her upstate New York home has become, she says, "an obsession. Sometimes I think I write for a few hours a day so I don't have to feel guilty about working in the garden." ...
  7. en.wikipedia.org

    Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. ... Prose contended that the similarities between the two stories constituted theft, writing in her original post that the story is a "scene by scene, plot-turn by plot-turn, gesture by gesture, line-of-dialogue by line-of-dialogue copy—the ...
  8. causewaylit.com

    In Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose says that by deliberate and slow "close reading" works in literature written by the masters, we become better writers.We also discover that there are no rules. We learn something new rereading a classic, and if we dissect a story to see how it's constructed, a kind of osmosis occurs.
  9. supersummary.com

    Author Francine Prose expresses surprise that, she, a creative writing teacher for over two decades, should so often be asked if writing can be taught. The question suggests that creativity, unlike multiplication tables, is impossible to transmit from teacher to student. While Prose believes a natural gift for storytelling cannot be taught, students can certainly study and learn how to write ...
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