The charm of the composing stories in the quiet, away from the hurly-burly of the Old Quarter street the house fronted, appeals even now.
Writing Craft
Tennessee Williams Lived Here
Category: Writing
- Fiction that rises up to my pen
- Poems the few that occur to me
- Books that I’ve been reading
- Writing Craft
Writing Craft
Zen in the Art of Writing
Following Bradbury’s advice, I do a thousand words on stories, fleshing them out. Those that retain gusto, I go with and try to improve.
Writing Craft
Backup Web Site
I now have a procedure that I know works to recover my sites should the need ever arise.
My Fiction
Sometimes Something Happens
Sometimes something happens and you just think, isn’t that interesting.
Reading, Writing 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.
Writing Craft
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, Writing Craft
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”
My Poems
Unexpected Discovery
It shakes him
A beautiful girl who does not attract
Unexpected discovery.
Reading, Writing Craft
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
Reading
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…
