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What is Anthropomorphism in writing? A process comprising of the attribution of human traits, characteristics, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities like gods, animals, or objects. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human mind; and is employed as a storytelling tool and artistic/writing device. In mythology, anthropomorphism is the perception of the divine appearing as a deity or in a human form carrying a set of human personality traits and characteristics; In fables, fairy tales, science fiction and fantasy genres, anthropomorphism is utilised as a device to attribute human characteristics to non-human characters like animals, creatures, computers, robots, objects, motifs etc. In science, it represents attributing human emotions, behaviours and tendencies to various animals for the purpose of research. It is derived from the Greek words anthrōpos ("human") and morphē ("form"). Follow for more interesting snippets on writing, art and l...

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WHAT IS BILDUNGSROMAN IN WRITING? Have you read novels like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Perks Of Being a Wallflower, Great Expectations and Paper Towns? There is something common in them apart from brillant writing. That is, a character who seeks spiritual transformation or walks on a journey to enlightenment. This kind of a novel or story comes under a genre called BILDUNGSROMAN. A bildungsroman novel is a novel depicting a character’s formative years of spiritual education. A writing genre that focuses on a character seeking answers to deep life questions and experiencing transformation along the spiritual journey. A coming-of-age novel or story that elaborates a character’s path to enlightenment. Composed from the German words bildung (education) and Roman (novel)! Follow for more interesting snippets on writing, art and life! www.nehasnotebook.com Subscribe:  Neha's Notebook  |  My Little library  |  Raindrop Stories ...

Nora Ephron is a screenwriter whose scripts for Silkwood , When Harry Met Sally , and Sleepless in Seattle have all been nominated for Academy Awards. Ephron started her career as a journalist for the New York Post and Esquire. She became a journalist because of her high school journalism teacher. Ephron still remembers the first day of her journalism class. Although the students had no journalism experience, they walked into their first class with a sense of what a journalist does: A journalists gets the facts and reports them. To get the facts, you track down the five Ws—who, what, where, when, and why. As students sat in front of their manual typewriters, Ephron's teacher announced the first assignment. They would write the lead of a newspaper story. The teacher reeled off the facts: "Kenneth L. Peters, the principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire high school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new...

Flowers blossom into flowers only after a series of winds hit the saplings. Before pearls are born, they nestle in the cocoon of the oyster for a span of time. Butterfly rests in a gooey shelter until it transforms into a butterfly. Everything in nature takes its own duration of time to become perfect and the way it is meant to be. So does a piece of writing… Stephen King defines this period as “Recuperation Period”. Joseph Sugarman calls it “Incubation Period”. This is a duration of time when a piece of writing has been written but is not ready to be put out into the world. During this period, we just let the piece stay in its place until it organizes itself in our head, so we can edit and revise it to its best possible perfection. Whether it is a stream of consciousness journal entry or a poem or an article, this duration of time is important for it to become refined and polished! http://www.nehasnotebook.com/   Subscribe:  Neha's Notebook  |  My ...

 Words are no lesser than gemstones. The more you have, the greater is your treasure. As for now, add to this treasure of yours these 11 aesthetic words with wondrous meanings. Read on! 1.     Bumbershoot : Umbrella 2.     Raconteur : A skilled storyteller 3.     Jouska : A hypothetical conversation that you play over and over in your head 4.      Cosmogyral : Whirling or travelling around the universe 5.      Zibaldone : A heap of things, miscellany, mixture 6.      Blazemoche : The therapeutic tranquility one feels while listening to the sounds of burning firewood 7.     Drapetomania : An irresistible desire to run away 8.     Twitterpated : Love-struck 9.     Chattel : A personal possession 10.                       ...