Elephant Links: Islam-SciFi, Writing Tips

Self-portrait with the Yellow Christ, Paul Gauguin (1890)

• “I Shit My Pants”: Spontaneous Ancient Literary Structure in Modern Day Colloquial Speech“

Ancient literary forms, even-metered or otherwise, can find inadvertent modern expression in contemporary everyday speech.” (tags: theory)

• Lessons from Other Writers, New and Well-Seasoned

From the Free Range Librarian blog, MFA student Schneider offer 18 helpful tips on how to develop your writing skills. (tags: writing)

• Islam in Sci-fi Literature

“People from Islamic backgrounds were generally portrayed with negative conotations in stories set in the near future but characterizations of Muslims in the distant future are generally positive.” (tags: literature)

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