by
jon.hayworth
on Sep 14, 2017
Reviews & Essays
Pornographer: a description we should use with pride
At school and in encyclopaedias we learn of the animal images and hunting scenes our ancestors portrayed on their cave walls.
There are other human images - the so called Venus's, females whose swollen torsos appear to suggest pregnancy, these are thought to be Fertility images. In Tannahill's "A Histor...
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by
justbobkc
on Oct 14, 2017
Reviews & Essays
Just About 30 Examples
This is a far from complete list and is listed pretty much in the order I personally read or watched or became aware of.
1. Le Morte d'Arthur - King Arthur and Guinevere. King Arthur ultimately dies because of Guinevere and Lancelot's betrayal. (See my essay: "What I Learned from Anony" for a detailed analysis.)
2. The Detective (19...
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by
egmontgrigor2010
on Sep 16, 2017
Novels and Novellas
As soon as the TV crew cleared up and left the real party was underway just as Patricia and Billie returned from taking Mandy to the airport.
"Why was Mandy jumping and yelling after being on the phone after closing the interview," Natalie asked.
Her mother said, "Mandy told us in the car that was her producer telling Mandy it was her best interview in th...
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by
egmontgrigor2010
on Sep 16, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Billie worked on a proposal for the cattle and horse ranch novel and sent it off to Under the Tree Publishing with the working title of 'Into the Saddle."
Her editor Jocelyn Winter emailed next day: "Hi sweet young woman. We accepted your proposal this morning. Gary our executive editor pointed out we have a publishing slot four months hence, so it's yours...
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by
Egmont Grigor
on Sep 15, 2017
Romance
* Set in New Zealand
CHAPTER 1
For nineteen years Greer Gregory spent New Year's Eve and all of January 'at the beach'. Being at any beach in mid summer was where many New Zealanders females lost their virginity by the age of eighteen.
But not Greer.
She'd turned nineteen in July and at the end of December, Christmas just behind them and the family was p...
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by
Spencerfiction
on Mar 3, 2020
First Time
A 750 word story, a standalone continuation of "One Shoe Gumshoe" when Mary and Edgar meet again after seven months apart. You only need to know that the setting is war-torn London in 1941 and film star Mary, stage name Marcia, is a virgin who married her gay late husband to protect each other from the loose morals of the 1930s movie stars, has fallen in lov...
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by
egmontgrigor2010
on Sep 13, 2017
Romance
CHAPTER 1
The ruggedly handsome guy with long black hair and very pale complexion leaned back on the chair in the half-empty Starbucks and wished he'd chosen a coffee that tasted like coffee. Idly he studied three under thirties women at a table who were dressed like businesswomen. He winked at one and she turned away embarrassed and their heads went togeth...
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by
RC_of_Doom
on Sep 13, 2017
Reviews & Essays
Obviously, step one in writing a novel, get an idea.
Authors get the question all the time: "How do you come up with your ideas?"
Assuming you're not one, I can answer that: Formal viewpoint. Or a functional mentality.
For example, Forbes Magazine had a front page cover about how al-Qaeda was losing money, and it suggested that Osama needed a new business...
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by
Egmont0409
on Sep 16, 2017
Novels and Novellas
CHAPTER 1
Hard-faced commissioning editor Ruby Street looked at one of the publishing company's premier writers of soft romances that were laced with mild naughtiness. She smiled bleakly, thinking the success of this attempt to wrench Paris McCoy out of her comfortable rut to hit the bookshelves with a sexy sizzler were about as good as finding a hundred bu...
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by
EgmontGrigorlatest
on Jan 8, 2019
Novels and Novellas
By Graeme McGregor aka Grigor McGregor
Chapter 1
For each of her first nineteen years, Inez Macdonald spent New Year's Eve and all of January 'At the beach'.
Being at any beach in mid-summer, is where many New Zealand teens traditionally lose their virginity at the age of eighteen or perhaps a bit later.
But not Inez.
She'd turned nineteen in July and a...
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