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Examples of Season-Tone in Literature (part two)

In the previous article, I wrote about the use of season-words in haiku and the possibility of conveying season through tone rather than the use of weighted words. The subject of tone relates to all writing, not exclusively haiku, so I thought I would provide some useful examples of the use of tone in works [...]

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The 12th Best Book for Writers

When I hastily put together my addition to The 10 Best Books for Writers, I left off Peter Turchi’s Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer Few books have taught me as much as Peter Turchi’s book has. This text reads like a life’s work. Maps of the Imagination is essentially an extended metaphor [...]

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