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READERSVOICE.COM aims to give some samples from interesting out of print books. Often they are much better than anything around today, for a number of reasons. Here is another sample from The Magic of Story-Telling by Clifford Warne. This 1971 book is more useful than hundreds of writing magazines and how to write books. The […]
Clifford Warne states how to create a conflict… Strong conflict makes powerful stories which hold audiences. When you prepare a story there are two things you want to know. 1.What does the main character want? 2.Who or what stops him from getting it? Answer the second question and you’ve identified the conflict. Then build this […]
Mr Warne writes about the essential ingredient in a story… Remember the songs I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Give My Regards to Broadway? They are from successful musical comedies written by George M. Cohan. Cohan had a simple format for all his stage shows. ACT ONE: Get the hero up a tree. ACT TWO: […]
Mr Warne gives an example of the types of conflict… He writes: This example really happened. The Indian teacher, Sundar Singh trudged his way through a snowy blizzard in the mountains of Tibet. He met another traveller. Together they plodded on until they found another man who had collapsed in the snow. He was […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give a few interesting samples from out of print and sometimes forgotten books. These often have a lot of juice still in them. And in many cases they are better than anything new that’s come out. Recently I found a copy of Japanese Conversation-Grammar by Oreste Vaccari and Mrs Enko Elisa Vaccari. […]
Here are a couple of early lessons from the book, Japanese Conversation-Grammar by Oreste Vaccari and Mrs Enko Elisa Vaccari, published 1973, originally published 1937. First Lesson. The Japanese language has no article and, except in a very few cases, no distinction is made between singular and plural nouns. Thus hon, book, may mean a […]
The grammar of a Japanese sentence is different from English. In English we might say: I have some bread. The way the Japanese say it would come out something like: I bread having am. They get right to the theme of the sentence very quickly. Like a newspaper story. A story about someone who has […]
READERSVOICE.COM aims to give some samples from interesting out of print books. Amen! Until Tomorrow, Retaking the Pacific after Pearl Harbor, (Fairway Press, Ohio, published 1990) is a collection of evening broadcasts given by a young chaplain to the crew and troops of an amphibious attack transport in the Pacific in WW2. They usually carried […]
Scuttlebutt or news. June 23, 1944. Tonight I want to mention some important details on the operation on Saipan [in the Mariana Islands, north of Guam, south of Japan, east of the Philippines and west of Hawaii].. The last casualties aboard reported the chief difficulty encountered in the hills was ferreting the enemy out of […]
Here is a sample of how the chaplain John D. Wolf could give a history lesson in a nutshell… On October 24, 1944, he announced that the ship was about to head for New Guinea. He says: It was here that the decisive land battle has been fought that actually decided the fate of Japan […]