Truly See — Even Flies Can Look “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain The greatest challenge to becoming technically better in any creative genre is that of turning off the messages that our brain sends us, assuring us that we are seeing when in reality,…
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner I WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant–a combined gardener and…
Writing in A Stream of Consciousness
Write in A Stream of Consciousness to Hush Your Self-Editor Something about writing seems to intimidate and/or frighten many people. Writing in a Stream of Consciousness can help get you past that fear of writing. What Is Writing in A Stream of Consciousness? Writing in a Stream of Consciousness is a Type of Free Writing. …
Where Is William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County?
In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emilly,” Miss Emily lived in Jefferson, Mississippi, which is a fictitious town in the fictitious county of “…Yoknapatawpha County (/jɒknəpəˈtɔːfə/). “Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which…
The House in Faulkner’s Story “A Rose for Emily”
The House in Faulkner’s Short Story “A Rose for Emily.” “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, [1870s] set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had…
Jacki Kellum Is Teaching Comp II: Writing about Literature at Northark College
I have started teaching at Northark College. I am teaching Comp II: Writing about literature. Northark College is a unique college–one that is a tribute to this entire region of the Ozark Mountains. Northark is a beautiful school. The above photo shows only a fraction of the campus, all of which is modern. Most of…
What Is Foreshadowing?
Foreshadowing is a hint of what is to come later in any of several types of literature. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury harnesses foreshadowing several times. “The seller of lightning-rods arrived just ahead of the storm.” – Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Chapter 1, First Sentence. In the first sentence of…
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 4 – Cigar Store, Barber Shop, & A Whiff of Cotton Candy
For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. The first 3 chapters of Something Wicked…
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 3
For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. Will and Jim as a Pair–Two Boys…
Something Wicked This Way Comes Chapter 2 and Autumn: Seasons of Life
For this post, I’ll be quoting from the following edition of Ray Bradbury’s masterful novel Something Wicked This Way Comes: Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Large Print edition, Center Point Publishing, 2000. The page numbers will be different if you are reading from another edition of the book. Something Wicked This Way Comes…