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Sin-a-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties. Thanks to Lenny Nero for pointing this one out to me. As I mentioned in another thread, I collect vintage pulp novels for their covers; I tend to collect books about the things I collect as well.

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It was the pretty, Fauvist-style cover art that first got me to notice Maeve Binchy. (I'm impervious to the Oprah influence.) Now I'm a big fan. But my all-time favorite book cover is a kitschy porn novel entitled Nympho Librarian, because I'm a...librarian. The book itself is unreadable...

That title sure caught my attention. The book sounds interesting, but I noticed it's currently in print from "Penguine (Non-Classics)." Oh the indignity.

A goat bit me. Twice.

Odyssey. Romeo and Juliet. Merchant of Venice. Julius Caesar. Scarlet Letter. “Rappaccini's Daughter.” (And other short stories, but that one was my favorite, and still is.) Huckleberry Finn. All Quiet on the Western Front. The Great Gatsby. Grapes of Wrath. Of Mice and Men. The...

Change this step. This is weak. Make him care about her. What would his reaction be when he finds out she isn't just interested in another guy, but stalking him? That might help with the rest of the story.

Emma Thompson.

No. People say "I." They talk about their actions. The main time a person uses passive voice is if they're trying to distance themselves from what they're saying, because of evasiveness or personal pain. People don't say "a question no answer was given." They say "I couldn't think of an...

I suggest you keep your email address private. Also, does your school have a writing club? And if it doesn't, maybe you can start one.

Keep in mind as you revise that a sentence like this also has problems beyond the final word: abstractions, passive voice, change in tense, wordiness, errors in syntax and punctuation. Your comments about the sentence were more clearly written, so it's clear you can do it. Good luck.

"Albert R. Shadle was the world's foremost expert on the sexuality of small woodland creatures."

I've always wanted to see Ed Wood because I'm a fan of his movies. They're so classic.* Never quite got around to it, but I just picked up a VHS tape for a dollar, so now it's on the top of my to-watch pile. My public library is phasing out their VHS collection, so we've had thousands to...

I think I will approach it more as a travelogue and adventure. I like treasure hunts, ;)

It's true that too much use of "I" can start to sound self-indulgent. This applies to any first-person narration, whether it's autobiography in disguise or not. But I don't think you should try to follow a formula, counting sentences and so forth. Use "I" when it naturally occurs in the...

I sure hope so. Is your whole novel like this? You need to work on how to construct a sentence.