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Getting Great, by Mike Vidafar

Getting Great

Now that May, which was the month of Gatsby, has died down, I feel like it’s time for a different sort of discussion. May was positively filled with articles discussing Gatsby, and rightly so. The discussions were dis-jointed: some focused

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Posted in 2013, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

Dystopian Discourse, by Mike Vidafar

Dystopian Discourse

The dystopian craze is on the verge of becoming an epidemic. Yet while the future is bleak within their pages, there is a tremendous amount of hope to be found in the unsettling future of this widely popular genre. But

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

Superheroes, by Mike Vidafar

With all of the fuss leading up to movies like The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises, it’s no wonder that superheroes have once again taken hold of the hearts and imaginations of our country. Don’t get me wrong – I

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

The Cure: Overcoming Writer’s Block, by Mike Vidafar

“A gift is not weighed and measured, nor can it be bought. It can’t be expected or demanded; rather it is granted, or it is not. In theological terms it’s a grace, proceeding from the fullness of being. One can

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

Searching for Resonsance: Sorting Through Preconceptions of “Good” Literature, by Mike Vidafar

“…It may be that some great masterpiece that deserves immortality has fallen still-born from the press, but posterity will never hear of it; it may be that posterity will scrap all the best sellers of our day, but it is

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

The Literary Battlefront: Blurring the lines between digital and traditional literature, by Mike Vidafar

There is a war about to begin, yet no blood will be shed. There is a change coming, yet, as is the way of things, most people won’t notice anything unusual. On one side, the rhetoric reads “what is at

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

The Plight to Write: The Challenges That Aspiring Writers Face, by Mike Vidafar

At a time when prominent authors like Margaret Atwood are arguing for an increase in literacy (a direct result, she argues, of the internet and Twitter), and novelists (of all creeds) are seeming more “real” and accessible than ever before,

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

Though hands grow cold, the pen stays hot: Why the Winter season is conducive to writing, by Crystal Maitland

Winter is cold, yes, but perhaps it would be better to say that it is honest. Winter whips away the cover of lush leaves and plush petals; wriggles through armor of wool and fleece and down. It is not so

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Posted in 2012, Non-Fiction, Op-Ed

Reading & Writing Plays, by Laura Bolt

When I was young and growing up in Washington, D.C., I was lucky enough to take advantage of the rich assortment of local theatre. While the changing sets and scenery rarely disappointed, it was the language of the plays that

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Posted in 2012, Author's Resource, Non-Fiction

Making the Decision, by Paul Karaffa

So you want to join the ranks of great writers, to make your mark by inducing tears, fascination, romance, and even the occasional scream of your readers? Friends and neighbors are crawling out of the woodwork to yell “That’s great!”

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Posted in 2011, Author's Resource, Non-Fiction
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