In these over 600 pages of manuscript, soon to be published in authoritative form in the Collected Works, he offered a series of disquisitions on the definitions, distinctions, axioms, and aphorisms intended as tools for demystifying the "fictions" of English law and legal practice, fictions which he found uncritically reiterated in Blackstone's Commentaries.
Proof that she has also thought seriously about the technical challenges and historical development of her vocation can be found in Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, one of the livelier recent books of criticism by a practicing fiction writer.
There are interesting exceptions, but on the whole the letters are not being used as practice for fiction or essays.
Captain Masterson, like many people I met over the course of my SideTour experiences, had recently switched careers, quitting his job at an investment bank to start a private therapy practice, write fiction and teach sailing.
Nicholas Schmidle's investigative article on how the Chicago criminal-justice system could go horribly wrong paints a picture that many lawyers will recognize, no matter where they practice ("Crime Fiction," August 4th).
Henry James at the outset of the twentieth century brought to a triumphant climax his sustained practice of fiction with three stately novels that are marvels of prolonged design and elaborate sensibility — "The Wings of the Dove" (1902), "The Ambassadors" (1903), and "The Golden Bowl" (1904).
Naipaul spoke about how his practice of fiction, which had initially "seemed to me to be the noblest thing", changed when he saw that the great novels he admired came out of stable, hermetic 19th-century worlds that bore little relation to his own, which was "full of flight and unfinished experience".
Applying Lanchester's reversification formula gives us a more accurate name for the fund: Debt Equals Worthless Rocks No. 1. Paul Sheridan Hong Kong Nicholas Schmidle's investigative article on how the Chicago criminal-justice system could go horribly wrong paints a picture that many lawyers will recognize, no matter where they practice ("Crime Fiction," August 4th).
I knew six years ago that I would be writing my novel, Agenda 21, so it was important to get in some practice writing fiction.
The common view of the short story is that it is a "practice space" for fiction.
