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Free Indirect Style: A Theory
Free Indirect Style is a technique for communicating a character’s thoughts, feelings, or perspective.
Dec 14
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Brad Skow
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The Devil Quoting Scripture
Recently I picked up a book of Great American Speeches and found, to my disappointment, that the speeches of the nation’s founders were followed by a…
Dec 6
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Brad Skow
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On thought-rhyme; or, parallelism as a poetic technique
Poems don’t need meter, in our free verse age.
Nov 29
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Brad Skow
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Everything Old is New Again: The Scarlet Letter
While in jail, the ghostbusters study the blueprints of the apartment building that, it will turn out, is a portal to a demon world, and they notice…
Nov 16
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Brad Skow
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“I was like a wounded animal...”
The worst pain I ever felt was a broken arm.
Nov 8
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Brad Skow
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Publication Day
Today American Independence in Verse takes its first halting steps into the wider world.
Nov 4
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Brad Skow
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Naive Reviews: John Donne’s Holy Sonnets, Part 1
The moment of greatest ecstasy, in any of the Holy Sonnets I-IX, is in Sonnet VII:
Nov 1
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Brad Skow
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The Leftovers
The loyalists were American colonists who rejected independence.
Oct 19
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Brad Skow
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Young American
George Washington’s complete writings run past thirty-nine volumes, a bit much even for the father of a country.
Oct 11
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Brad Skow
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“Apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables...”
On Blank Verse
Sep 26
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Brad Skow
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American Independence in Verse, on paper
American Independence in Verse will be published on November 4th: I’m excited to share this happy news.
Sep 22
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Brad Skow
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Sugar-Coated Pills
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Sep 14
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Brad Skow
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