Archive for the ‘Information’ Category
Today we ask consider whether the Anne Frank Trust’s is right to object to Annexed; a fictional work by Sharon Dongar, which makes use of the characters of Anne Frank and Peter van Pels. Told as a series of diary entries and thoughts from Peter, Annexed is an interpretation of the time he spent with the Franks, his discovery and subsequent time in a concentration camp.
These days, there are hundreds of thousands of people publishing their written work in some form or another. Be it in physical books, magazines and newspapers, or e-books, blogs, online articles and websites, the written word is now publicised in more forms than ever before. Although this is a great step for civilisation, it does make it very hard for any writer to get themselves noticed.
Not everybody who is interested in writing books necessarily knows how to go about doing so. Today we provide a basic guide to starting to write a generic informative book; not so our readers can earn themselves a Nobel Prize for Literature, but so they can get to grips with the basics of writing.
from thebookshelfmo.com
Although these days there seem to be almost as many genres within art than individual pieces, the first of all genres actually predate the Hellenic era. Even the plays of Sophocles were defined primarily as tragedy, although he was known to write the occasional comedy as well . Nowadays, genres are not limited to plays or even to fictional novels; everything from movies and comic books to poetry and works of non-fiction have their own genres, although some of these are harder to define because they fall into too many different categories.
