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9 Amazing Writers and Their Strange Deaths

Originally posted on Shmoop News:

A good writer knows that no story is finished until you’ve come up with a killer ending. Unfortunately for some of those authors, their own endings were way stranger than anything in their fiction. Here at Shmoop we’ve found 9 of the weirdest ways that famous writers have made their exits from this world.


1. Edgar Allan Poe

No one knows exactly what happened to Edgar Allan Poe, but it certainly wasn’t good. On October 3, 1849, Poe was found in a Baltimore stree...

Movie Stars at Home With Their Kids

Originally posted on LIFE:

“The very rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “are different from you and me.” And along those lines, we often assume, so are the very famous. Movie stars, for example, can sometimes seem to exist in a more rarefied world than the rest of us — as if they’re living on some higher plane where worries cease and cares are a memory.

It’s a silly notion, of course. Most actors and actresses, no matter how rich or well-known, share the same elemental concerns as the...

The Writing Tools of 20 Famous Authors

Originally posted on Flavorwire:

It’s no secret that writers can be quite particular about their writing tools. Some might call it an obsession or fetish, but the pens, pencils, notebooks, and other implements that authors have used to create their most famous works endlessly fascinates us. After reading

an ode

to the beloved Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 pencil, adored for its smooth, firm graphite, we had to find out more about the tools of the literary elite. Take notes, and save your penni...

Rules for Historical Fiction – Edward Rutherfurd

Originally posted on A Writer of History:

In May I had the pleasure of

interviewing

Edward Rutherfurd

during the launch of his latest novel,

PARIS

. In preparation, not only did I read PARIS, but I also trolled the internet for perspectives on Rutherfurd’s writing and, of course, visited his

website

for biographical information and other tidbits.

One page on the website caught my eye: Rules for Writing Historical Novels. Here they are:

Don’t invent history. (You can add characters and incidents...

Life Questions That We Should Think About

Originally posted on Good Time Stories:

Photo Credit: Moyan Brenn via CC Flickr

These 24 thought provoking questions I am sharing with you today have no right or wrong answers. Asking them is the answer. Voltaire, the writer, historian, and philosopher of the French Enlightenment era, admonishes us to judge a man by his questions rather than his answers: you’ll get to know someone better by asking them the right questions. In the same way, you know yourself better by asking yourself the right...

A Shocking Letter to Dad

myeagermind:

Must read this

Originally posted on Good Time Stories:

Photo Credit: Muffet via CC Flikr

A while ago, I came across a story, which was posted by MumbaiiteAnuletter, about a letter that a daughter had written to her father. As a dad myself, I just couldn’t imagine the millions of thoughts that went through this father’s mind as he read it. I also believe that I would have felt the same way that he did by the time he finished reading the letter!

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A father passing by his teenage...

Kiss your Heritage Goodbye

Originally posted on EdMooneyPhotography:

Coolbanagher Castle via Google Street Veiw

Please forgive me for this post as I may rant quite a bit. Words cannot describe how angry this has made me. On 24th Febuary 2014 after suffering damage during a storm 10 days earlier, Coolbanagher Castle an early Medieval Tower Hall, built in the early 13th century was completely demolished. Many of you will already know how passionate I am about the preservation of these sites, in fact one of the main factor...

Kris Austen Radcliffe – Photographer

I would like to introduce someone you may already know. Kris Austen Radcliffe is an author but you may not know that she is also a gifted photographer . I would like her to share a little about her photography. She has a great eye for detail in her pictures and I would like to share of few of them with you.

Here is what she had to say;

We’re hardwired to look. My job, as a photographer, is to help people perceive: The animals in your backyard. The lines and colors of an Irish sunset. The haunti...

Behind the Mask: The Plague Doctor

Originally posted on The Chirurgeon's Apprentice:

It is an image that many recognise but most know nothing about. The plague mask—with its elongated beak and dark, soulless eyes—has been replicated in costume shops around the world [see left]. Indeed, so prevalent are these masks at parties and balls, one might be tempted to think it is a design entirely imagined by Italian mask-makers for the Venetian Carnival. But where did this mask originate and what purpose did it serve during plague out...