Hello, this is Sil Stein from the Daily with Silstein on anchor. Happy, happy Thursday. I hope everyone's having a fantastic day. I wanted to go ahead and do the next segment of the writer's devotional365 inspirational exercises, ideas, Tips and Motivations on writing by author Amy Peters.
Now, I know we still have the assignment Wednesday writing class. And then we also wanted to do the one on the. For week 26. And we also said we're going to cover the writing prompt.
Weather can affect my life. I did share excerpts of Julie Garwood's Heartbreaker. And I also read an excerpt of the book the Perfect Storm by, you know, Sebastian Junger and, and, and that. Great.
And I still, but I would still like to share my own assignment and I probably won't do that until next week. At the beginning of the show. I keep saying that, but there's been a lot going on this week, so. But I still wanted to continue week 27, continue with that and then go into The Week Week 26 Writing Class Assignment and show the research that was done with like, write a true crime story about a real murder in your state.
You can make it into a story, do the research, as I said, and you can create a hashtag writing class on the writing community hashtag for Twitter. You could also send me that through Instagram under Sylvia Stein. I'm under that. Let me give you my Instagram account so you know where to reach me.
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And then you can also send me a message through author Sylvia Stein on Facebook. On Twitter, it's Sylvia underscore Stein S t e I n07 and that's on Twitter. And my email, stillwriter07gmail.com and you can also call the podcast through Anchor, leave a message and, and leave what you want to discuss on that message. It is, it is very short, but if you prefer I read what you wrote, that's also good.
Or you want to come on the show and share that, you could also do that. And this is for all authors and writers listening today. And like I said, I enjoyed reading the excerpt by Julie Garwood to give you an idea, the Heartbreaker, which was really, really chilling when I was reading that. And also I wanted to, you know, share about the prompt, the writing prompt, which was Weather Can Affect My Life.
And the perfect example of that was the book by Sebastian Junger. I want to make sure I said it right. Yes, the Perfect Storm, A True Story of Men against the Sea, which was also made into a movie and so y' all could take it all in and get an idea of what you need to write about. So I hope that we can start with that for next week's show.
But for today, I am going to continue week 27. Happy Thursday, everyone. Hope everyone's doing well. I know I covered Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
I don't know if I went into. Let me see here. Sunday I covered Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I believe.
See here. I know I talked about this, Gerald. Okay, and then I'm going to recap on Wednesday writing class just so we can recap on the book by author Amy Peters, the writer's devotional 300 inspirational exercises, ideas, Tips and Motivations on Writing says Write a short biography of a historical figure. It's not enough to copy down basic facts from the Internet.
You have to take those facts and create your own unique perspective on the individual. Give the reader your impression of that person beyond the headlines or history. Set the person in the context of the time in which he or she or he lived and show how that time is similar or different than what we are living in today. Another route would be to take a little known story of a historical figure and blow it out.
Capture details that may have gone missing over the years or were never fully explored. These are the types of things that make biography one of the best selling genres in the non fiction market. So, so that's, that's very interesting. So try to work on that as well if you can.
For week 27, write a short biography of a historical figure. And now we're going to move on to editing. On words now accepted as English use On words now accepted as English use Accents only when they make a crucial difference to pronunciation. And this is from the Economist Style Guide.
Many languages rely heavily on the use of accents. If you are incorporating foreign terms into your work as either a proper name or descriptive word, use the accents as appropriate. You can choose from the following. So here it says acute accent and then it says here it shows the different things, a grave accent and how it changes the circumflex, the umlat, the cedillia and the tickle.
They all, and they all show the tickle, the tilde, sorry, the cedilla. And the tilde, which is in Spanish is the little accent that goes in the word, the new phrase, the tickle, the tilde. Sorry about that. Grave accent.
Like for example, acute accent shows in the word it's emphasized in the beginning. Then the grave accent is at the end, sita. And then circumflex is matria. It's right where the I is.
Umlot is in the U. S is. It doesn't have one. It just says doesn't really show a marked absent.
And then the tilde is like if we say tomorrow in Spanish manana, the N has the tilde on it. However, if the foreign word is now commonly used in the English language, you only need to include the accent of the accent if it makes a difference in the world's pronunciation. For example, you should include accents on words like cafe for coffee and cliche. And at the end they have the little accent there, but not with words like chateau or elite.
American English is filled with many foreign words, some of which we simply assume have been English all along. Two of my favorites are Icelandic in origin. Geyser and berserk, Raccoon, squash and moose all have Native American origins. Cookie and stoop are Dutch.
Barbecue and stevedor are Spanish. Interesting. So it's a lot of very different words and they're kind of small, so that's why I'm having a little trouble seeing them. So my apologies on that.
And that was Thursday. Editing basically on words now accepted as English use accents only when they make a crucial difference to pronunciation. So now we move on to Friday. Biography I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of, and this is a quote by Dashell Hammett.
Samuel Deshaux Hammett, 1894-1961 didn't see much future for himself in school, and after dropping out at the age of 13, he thrust himself into the adult workforce, securing one menial job after another, from railroad labor to Steve Door. Steve Door. But it was a low paying stint as an operative at the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in San Francisco, where Hammond struck gold, mining his experiences there into the hardboiled detective stories that would later gain him fame. Hammett enlisted in the U.
S Army in 1918, but after contracting tuberculosis he was unfit for duty and confined to an army hospital in Tacoma, Washington. He returned to San Francisco, but his health prevented him from going back to Pinkerton and he decided to give writing a try. By 1922 he had published his first story in the Smart Set, a prominent literary magazine. But he soon realized that his heart Scrabble style of writing was better suited to pulp magazines.
In 1923, the popular magazine Black Mass published his first hard boiled crime story. He continued to publish in that magazine for five years and at the same time began writing novels and screenplays for Hollywood. By 19. 30, Hammond had built a strong following for both his novels and his magazine stories.
He decided to create a new character, the now famous Sam Spade. And we'll be right back with Saturday Books to Read and Sunday Writing Prompt. And now it's time for the wrap up of the Daily with Silstein on anchor. I decided that we're going to go ahead and do Saturday Books to Read and Sunday Writing Prompt on the next segment of the Daily with Sil Stein on anchor.
So I can go ahead and review writing class for week 26 in the beginning and the writing prompt for week 26 also. And we'll do the week 27 the week also next week. But first we'll do the next show and then we'll focus on the next segments of Week 27 in the Daily Whistle. Stein on anchor here on the Daily Whistle Sign on anchor.
But we also what if it wasn't for the book by author Amy Peters, the writer's devotional 36065 inspirational exercise, exercises, ideas and Motivation on Writing? I wouldn't have been able to carry this podcast because it helps when you have all these different books that you want to read or be helpful. And I believe this book is very helpful. If you have not gotten your copy of it, please do.
I hope you will. That way you can read through and get get your juices flowing. Because it doesn't. It is meant to hone your skills so that way you can close in on them and get it done.
And that's what I've been doing this week. Also announcements. I am going to do a giveaway probably starting next week. My birthday is this week, but it's tomorrow.
But I want to do a special giveaway. Some ebooks, some audiobooks and so stay tuned for that message from me. Excuse me. Of course I get a drink, a lot of coffee in the morning.
I only have one cup but for some reason in any case I want to thank you all for the support of the podcast. I thank you all for tuning in. Happy happy Thursday. I I did also want to add if you wanted to subscribe to the podcast, please do.
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