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Pride, Prejudice, and Plot Twists
Pride and Prejudice hits all the high points of the romance cycle--and is considered by many to be foundational to the genre.
https://darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/story-skeleton-pride-prejudice
Omniscience is a perspective all of its own, so it's important not to mix omniscient insights into a close/limited third-person perspective. Many readers will snag on this, and it otherwise makes the voice uneven.
Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot during WWII before becoming a beloved children's author.
Margaret Atwood wrote parts of "The Handmaid's Tale" on a rented typewriter in West Berlin.
Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" and revised it multiple times throughout his life.
William Shakespeare coined over 1,700 words, many of which are still used today.
Virginia Woolf and her husband founded Hogarth Press, publishing works by T.S. Eliot and Sigmund Freud.
John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" was banned and even burned due to its portrayal of the Great Depression.
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the modern detective story with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Haruki Murakami ran a jazz bar before becoming a novelist.
Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" was his only novel published during his lifetime, yet it won the National Book Award.
Kurt Vonnegut survived the bombing of Dresden, which became the basis for "Slaughterhouse-Five."
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The First Page Challenge 2024—1st place
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The First Page Challenge 2024—2nd place
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The First Page Challenge 2024—3rd place
"Over a space of 40 years, I published an average of 1,000 words a day. Over the space of the second 20 years, I published an average of 1,700 words a day."
— Asimov, 1994
(His books cover every major category in the Dewey Decimal System!)
Anton Chekhov was a practicing physician who said, "Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress."
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Just released: Under the Family Tree
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, who wanted to make sure her work was taken seriously.
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