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authorship
2017-10-04 08:20
TPS FOR FELLOW AUTHORS No.3 by Neil Boyd
EXPLORING THE UNFATHOMABLE HEART I suspect I was drawn to be a writer to explore the unfathomable complexities and contradictions of every human being, beginning with myself. Plato wrote that good men
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2017-10-03 09:28
TIPS FOR FELLOW AUTHORS No. 2 by Neil Boyd
WHY DO WRITERS WRITE? Tolstoy answered this question in a passage worth reading over and over: The aims of art are not to resolve a question irrefutably, but to compel one to love life in all its
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neil-boyd
author
2017-09-30 14:01
TIPS FOR FELLOW AUTHORS. NO.1 by Neil Boyd
Thomas Carlyle was the author of a history of the French Revolution. He completed the first volume and sent it to a pal to read, the philosopher John Stuart Mill. Mill's maid mistook it for trash and used
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poetry
2017-09-17 15:02
POEM ON YOUTH AND AGE by Neil Boyd
With a nod to the Book of Ecclesiastes. When I look in a glass this I see, Years like a river rush past, My whole world wilting like grass. If you ask me life's a farce, All is vanity. I tell you youngsters
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poetry
2017-09-10 11:52
TWO GREAT LOVE POEMS translated by NEIL BOYD
Claudian was the last great Latin poet. He died aged 34 in 404. Vivunt in Venerem frondes Leaves live only for love and all through lofty groves each happy tree is under love’s spell. To pledge their union
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poetry
2017-09-06 10:11
World Requiem by Neil Boyd
The Church chants Eternal Rest, Requiem Aeternam, over the dead. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and on them shine eternal light. Do you wonder why, Wonder why I cry When earth's loveliest things all
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author
2017-09-02 12:13
HEMINGWAY AND THE ART OF WRITING by NEIL BOYD
If you haven’t heard it before, let me introduce you to the shortest and perhaps most satisfying short story ever written. It’s often attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Peter Miller, a literary agent, said
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story
2017-08-31 15:29
The Art of The Short Story by Neil Boyd
THE ART OF THE SHORT STORY by NEIL BOYD I am old now but in my final years I’d like to pass on to prospective authors, young and old, a few things I’ve learned in a lifetime of writing. When I was young,
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best-selling
2017-08-30 15:57
BECOMING A BEST SELLER by Neil Boyd
I’d like to tell you the story of how I became a best-selling author. I didn’t plan it. Didn’t expect it. It came out of the blue, courtesy of a friend, and it changed my life completely. The story begins
