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Topics covered include literary theory and practice, academic writing techniques, philosophy of education, and explanations of our methods for enhancing creative intelligence.
Honoring Maya Angelou: How Memoirists Can Transform Personal Stories with Professional Guidance
Maya Angelou’s work is an enduring model of authenticity and artistry, demonstrating how lived experience can be shaped into stories that inspire and empower. However, translating personal history into impactful writing can be a complex process. Working with an author coach gives memoirists tools and support to create narratives that honor their experiences and resonate with a wider audience.
Writing for All Ages: Lessons from The Little Prince
The Little Prince’s enduring appeal lies in its ability to speak to children through imaginative elements while offering adults deeper reflections on life’s complexities. For authors aspiring to create similarly cross-generational works, collaborating with an online creative writing coach can provide valuable guidance.
Writing for the Future: Octavia Butler’s Vision of Society
Butler’s groundbreaking approach opened the genre to perspectives beyond the traditional, white, male-dominated narratives, inspiring a new generation of writers to incorporate social issues into their science fiction and fantasy work. Writers looking to carry on Octavia Butler’s legacy can use a one-on-one writing coach to develop their craft and refine the social awareness and imaginative storytelling that characterized her work.
Epic Foundations: Building Stronger Novels with Lessons from Classic Poetry
By focusing on specific aspects of epic poetry, tutors can illuminate how these ancient texts achieve their effects, and then help novelists incorporate similar strategies into their own writing.
Cervantes' Way: Studying "Don Quixote" with a Writing Tutor
This novel's innovative narrative structure, complex character development, use of satire, and exploration of profound themes marked a significant departure from previous literary works and have influenced countless writers since its publication. Studying "Don Quixote" with a reading and writing tutor can provide writers with valuable lessons in these areas, enhancing their own writing craft.
Reading Recommendation: Briar Rose, by Robert Coover
Robert Coover’s Briar Rose (1997) is a short but dense little fiction that plumbs the depths of the Sleeping Beauty legend, foregrounding the age-old patterns at the heart of its many variations.
Reading Recommendation: The Changeling Sea, by Patricia McKillip
Like many of McKillip’s best works, The Changeling Sea (1988) reads like a fable. It has the simple, classic feel of a story that’s been told a million times, repeated around fires and at bedtimes until all its edges have been rounded out and its contours are so familiar you think you might have dreamed them up yourself.
Reading Recommendation: Ransom, by David Malouf
Ransom tells the story of Achilles: beloved hero of the Trojan War, bereaved of his companion Patroclus. But this isn’t the conventional tale of Achilles’ rise to fame, or even of his triumphs in battle. Instead, it’s an account of his reckoning with the loss of his soulmate, who dies on the field as a by-blow of our hero’s own pride.
Reading Recommendation: The Vorrh, by Brian Catling
The Vorrh is admittedly a lot to handle. It’s also an absolutely brilliant work of art. Brian Catling’s pan-medium creative background shines through to stunning effect in every inch of his prose; his style in this novel is immediate, tactile, shamelessly sprawling and descriptive.