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Hello readers, and welcome to another lesson in Literature Composition! This is Lecture Three, entitled Structural Deficit. In this lesson we will be covering sentence structure. Let's learn together! Before I begin slamming terms and grammar into your face, it's worth pointing out that sentences can be arranged in any number of ways. (Or perhaps, there are any number of ways a sentence can be arranged.) There is no set recipe, you might say, for sentence structure. The basic parts of speech (covered in lectures 1 and 2) interact with each other on many levels. A clever writer will understand that the basic tenets of grammar are absurdly fle

Hello again, and welcome to another dry episode of Literature Composition: Grammarism! In today's crusty episode we will be examining fun parts of speech including Pronouns, prepositions, interjections, conjunctions and articles! Let's get started right away, to make ourselves better! First on today's list we have Pronouns. Pronouns serve the purpose of reflexive reference, in which a noun refers to itself, or to refer to nouns without specifying them. Note the dual purpose of the pronoun, which can be used to specify or generalize. There are a multitude of sub-categories of pronouns, but those will be covered in finer detail further down th

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first lecture in Literary Composition! I'm your host, TheGoodDr. Firstly, let me tell you a little bit about what to expect from this course. Literary Composition will not be a class about character creation or world design, but rather about the actual mechanics of writing. To put it into a car perspective, this class is not about the paint on your car or the people in it. This class is about the body of the car and the engine. Without an engine or framework, your car won't be going very far at all. We will be building from the ground up, starting with basic grammar and sentence structure and then moving up

Tips For The Novice It's an all-too common occurrence on my periodic forays into the world of internet poetry - writing weakened by a lack of fundamental knowledge concerning the essence of poetry writing. There are no rules set in stone about creative writing. The writer that strikes new trails can make a lasting impact on the world of poetry, but the chances of a writer stumbling upon golden words without a solid knowledge base are slim to none. The following tips for novice writers are intended to help shore up those fundamentals, to help the young writer breathe the essence of life into their poems, and to better share that essence with

What is the Writing Process? Many of us learned that the writing process is made up of five parts: Pre-writing, Writing, Revision, Editing, and Publishing.  Indeed, this process has been so ingrained, and the vocabulary and terms have become such a part of our education, that some students (and adults) feel as if writing is a formulaic, rigid thing—not unlike learning mathematics—that they simply never excelled in.  Fortunately, this simply isn't true.  While the five basic steps of the writing process are effective, they can only be effective if the people using the process understand the purpose of e

I’ve heard the argument that writers shouldn’t watch TV and movies because that will inundate them with all the cliché plots and characters out there and somehow brainwash them into not being able to create an original story. Me: *blank stare* First of all, there is absolutely nothing new under the sun.  Therefore, it is impossible to create something totally unique and original no matter how many bad movies you see.  Furthermore, the more story lines that enter your brain, the more you realize just how “unique” or not your own story is. Most importantly, an original story is not a new story.  It is simply taking a