Most of my year at St. Jerome grammar school was a pleasure, but Bingo Day in the 8th grade was an exception.
Bingo Day
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.
Happy Path
Blake developed a new status–‘The Happy Path’. If your program worked for good data, it was assigned to the Happy Path.
Sometimes Something Happens
Sometimes something happens and you just think, isn’t that interesting.
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…
