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Harper Lee
How To Accept Criticism Even When It’s Not Constructive
by, Jill Swenson
February 23, 2016

You have polished a piece of your writing and are ready for someone else to read it. You take an enormous risk when you ask someone else for feedback. You make yourself vulnerable to being misunderstood or worse. It’s more than words on a piece of paper which stand in judgment. It’s you—your soul—on the line. Every red pen mark on the page feels like… [Read More]

Filed Under: criticism, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, feedback, Harper Lee, inner critic, Max Perkins, self-esteem, Tay Hohoff
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How to Turn a Good Book into a Great One
by, Jill Swenson
September 15, 2015

The July publication of Go Set a Watchman revealed Harper Lee changed point of view when she rewrote it as To Kill a Mockingbird. The new book is an unedited version and shows Harper Lee sloppily slip-sliding between first-person and third. The difference between a story narrated by Jean Louise Finch, a 26-year-old daughter, about her disillusionment in Atticus and small town bigotry, and the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Harper Lee, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pioneer Girl, Rose Wilder Lane, third-person limited, third-person objective, third-person omniscient, To Kill a Mockingbird
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