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Seven Tips from Edgar Allan Poe...

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
on How to Write Vivid Stories and Poems

Link to OpenCulture article here...


Though some of Poe’s discussion of technique relates specifically to poetry, as his own prose fiction testifies, these steps can equally apply to the art of the short story. And though he insists that depictions of Beauty and Death–or the melancholy beauty of death–mark the highest of literary aims, one could certainly adapt his formula to less obsessively morbid themes as well.
But I like Morbid...
 

Caged Maiden

Staff
Article Team
this article was a good read and of course I got lost in clicking things, and ended up watching the Simpsons version with James Earl Jones. Thanks for posting!!
 
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