Sometimes something happens and you just think, isn’t that interesting.
Sometimes Something Happens
Category: Writing & Reading
Literary interests that arise from daily life. Books that affected me, stories that rise up to my pen, a few poems, and issues of craft.
Speed of a Novel. Middlemarch
More action with shorter sequels is the rule in commercial fiction these days, but I mustn’t forget that the sequels must be full enough to make the skein of actions sensibly linked.
Words and Writing
What else accounts for the difference most of us experience between the vigor of our speech and the difficulty of our writing?
Reading Appreciation Class
One lady shook her head and said to me, “I wanted to ask him (the teacher) why don’t we read any stories that are happy”
Unexpected Discovery
It shakes him
A beautiful girl who does not attract
Unexpected discovery.
Novel Form
Novels require suspense about the outcome between a determined person and a formidable obstacle. If the story cannot be cast in that shape, then another mode of telling the story is required
Reaction to Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith My rating: 3 of 5 stars Goldsmith’s novel is a child of the Age of Reason. It’s much too heavily weighed to the intellect. It devolved into talking heads. Goldsmith has many useful and provocative insights, in the logical domain which is all-important to him. The Vicar provides…
Live by the Word
I spend a lot of time reading words, writing words, and thinking in words. And I’ve noticed a peculiar feature which sometimes happens to me. I start following the words of people who are involved in a dispute – both sides – more than I refer back to the actual actions involved. My thought train…
Decision in Ireland
Upper Pasture May 3, 1798 Patrick Hamill stepped his way down the path leading from the upper pastures of the Antrim Mountains. Patrick was a wiry, black-haired youth of 17. He was of medium height, now that his growth spurt had kicked in. He wasn’t solid like his Da or Hugh, his older brother. His…
A Successful Poem
You get what you deserve The anthem of the successful I earned what I got The poor deserve what they get The self-satisfied pat on one’s own back And the well-deserved kick in the keester for the poor A contrary view,
