Tag Archive | Facts
And That’s A Fact!
Originally posted on Author – Richard F Holmes:
Somebody quoted a fact at me recently and it prompted the following muse.. FACTS – Are perceptions of the mind and subject to change. REALITY – What we create as our experience in the here and now; also subject to change. TRUTH – The underlying eternal principle…
Five Fascinating Facts about Jane Austen
Interesting Literature A very short biography of Jane Austen told in five pieces of great trivia 1. Many writers have hated her. D. H. Lawrence called Jane Austen a ‘narrow gutted spinster’, while Mark Twain didn’t pull any punches: ‘Everytime I read “Pride and Prejudice” I want to dig her up and beat her over the […]
100 Interesting Facts about Famous Authors
Interesting Literature 100 fun facts about writers and their fascinating lives On Twitter we recently reached the 100,000 followers milestone. (Hurrah! And do follow us @InterestingLit if you’re also a tweeter.) To celebrate the occasion, we’ve gathered together one hundred of our favourite facts about famous authors. We hope you enjoy them! Where there’s a link […]
27 Interesting Facts about Words
Interesting Literature Fun facts about words and the English language The stuff of literature is, of course, words. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge observed, ‘Prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.’ In this post, we’ve gathered up 27 of the best facts about words that we’ve […]
When writing some types of fiction, how accurate do you have to be?
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
Unlike some genres, when it comes to pure science fiction, if you as the author prefer a quiet life, the answer is – extremely! If you want examples of wild inacurracy, look no further than the many sci-fi films and video games churned out by Hollywood and others.…
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