Answers.com Kicks Off Creative Writing Challenge for Back to School (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

If you are interested in thrillers, as I am, I suggest you study Alistair MacLean, the guy who taught a generation of thriller writers how to do it. Read When Eight Bells Toll, The Secret Ways, Bear Island, Fear is the Key. Look at John D. MacDonald. Read Ernest Gann. Study Raymond Chandler and Eric Ambler. To study a master of plot construction and characterizations, read Agatha Christie. For atmosphere you might read Georges Simenon and Rex Stout. Of course you must read the perfect stylist, the author whose style influenced everyone who came after, Hemingway. Finally, to study how a real master can mesh rich characterizations with an interesting plot and pace it properly, you might read Larry McMurtry and Amy Tan, two excellent writers doing it in English today.

Answers.com Kicks Off Creative Writing Challenge for Back to School (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Answers.com today announced the winners of the first round of its Creative Writing Challenge http://www.answers.com/main/writing_challenge.jsp, designed for inventive writers and bloggers.

Achievements (River Valley Business Report)

Catherine Kolkmeier (see photo) has been named to direct the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium.

?Daily Show? Alumnus Signs Deal With HBO (New York Times)

Ben Karlin is taking his act to HBO.

Bryan Stanley, who murdered three men at an Onalaska church in 1985, writes book about making Driftless Area a national ... (La Crosse Tribune)

MADISON — The Spring issue of the College of Natural Resources news for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point included an alumni update about 1977 soils graduate Bryan J. Stanley.

Author uses fact-based skeleton story as novel’s plot (Goshen News)

“Write what you love,” explained former West Noble High School language arts teacher and Goshen resident Pat Carter, who is also now known as Robert Garrett Scott, novelist.

Onalaska church killer says he’s changed (Winona Daily News)

MADISON, Wis. — In the Spring issue of the College of Natural Resources news for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the alumni update included a note about 1977 soils graduate Bryan J. Stanley.

Full circle (The Manila Times)

I’d like to offer a few bits of historical information—as best I can—to the current debate on textbooks. In the mid-70s, I was made the chairman of the Textbook Board by the late President Marcos. His instruction was succinct: “Put some sanity in the Textbook Board.”

Variety the Spice in Autumn Arts Classes (The Morning News)

There are no classes for children on the Walton Arts Center's fall calendar. But Terri Trotter, WAC vice president for external affairs, says the Fayetteville arts center will continue to touch the lives of thousands of students every year.

Out and About: Weekend Notes Aug. 3-9 (The Morning News)

The Thing to Do "Annie" It's not all sadness at the orphanage when "Annie," based on the 1924 comic strip by Harold Gray, comes to the Rogers Little Theater stage this weekend. The musical is under the direction of Ed McClure, with musical direction by Lisa Welty-Auten, choreography by Martina Peacock and Dru Wiser and technical direction by Mike Manning. It stars Emily Weeden as Annie; Kathy ...

Out and About For Aug. 10-16 (The Morning News)

Free Style Saturday SPRINGDALE -- The Shiloh Museum concludes a series of free Saturday programs for families with butterfly experts Paige and Mary Bess Mulhollan from 10 a.m. to noon. No registration is required. Information: 750-8165.

Answers.com Kicks Off Creative Writing Challenge for Back to School (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Writing is a craft, like playing a musical instrument or painting with oils. Every aspiring writer must acquire this craft, just as every musician must learn his or her instrument. Today some high schools and most colleges offer creative writing courses, and so do various writer's workshops. If you look around you will undoubtedly find one in your area. Some of these folks charge for their services.

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