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Category Archive: Best Writing of The Week

Just Raymond Chandler Describing a Man

I’m a massive Raymond Chandler fanboy, though I only started reading him recently. And here’s an example that […]

August 29, 2019 Best Writing of The Week, Books

Now That’s a Simile

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These days I’m re-reading Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece, The Long Good-bye. I do this as I’m nearing the completion […]

February 26, 2019 Authors, Best Writing of The Week, Books, Writing

The Best Writing of the Week – Wuthering Heights

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Sometimes you come across passages that remind you again of what good writing is. I just started the […]

November 14, 2018 Best Writing of The Week, Books, Horror, Writing

Elephants Aglow – A Few Words About THE ONLY HARMLESS GREAT THING

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Elephants shouldn’t glow. Humans shouldn’t be careless with radioactive waste. But good writers should tell good stories, and […]

June 11, 2018 Best Writing of The Week, Books, Writing

Just a Bit of Great Writing

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The following is a short excerpt from Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway that should be enough to either […]

October 28, 2016 Best Writing of The Week, Books, Writing

The Best Writing of the Week – Tender is the Night

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Do you ever read books simply for the prose?  In an attempt to improve my writing I do […]

August 13, 2016 Best Writing of The Week, Books, Writing

The Best First Sentence of the Year?

I’m reading Undertow Publication’s excellent anthology Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume Two. It was there I encountered the […]

January 28, 2016 Best Writing of The Week, Short stories, Writing

The Best Writing of the Week | Dickens Again

The best writing this week comes, yet again, from Charles Dickens. He is a master, pure and simple. […]

March 20, 2014 Best Writing of The Week, Writing

I Want To Live Here | Best Writing of the Week

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I’m about to finish Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus. It is a fantastic book that I put off […]

May 14, 2013 Best Writing of The Week, Books, Writing

The Best Writing of The Week | Harlan Ellison

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Neil Gaiman told me to read Harlan Ellison, and if Mr. Gaiman says something, I obey. (This is […]

March 20, 2013 Authors, Best Writing of The Week, Books, Writing

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