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Monthly Archives: April 2008
WRITING: Woe is me.
Maybe it’s the familiarity after fifty readings. Maybe it’s the deadlines–self-imposed, but surely there. No submissions ready before the summer cutoffs, nothing new with punch. I smack of novice; creative writing course form and story. Only BoB was worth the … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: First Person POV and Grammar
Very good post at Conversational Reading wherein Scott tackles the fine points of unreliable first person narrator and focuses on the grammatical skill of the teller of story. I’ve come up against this many times in my own writing–both questions: … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: A Personal Dividing Line in Fact and Fiction
We’ve talked about this in class, and it’s one of those things that are never clearly answered–unless you’re James Frey and have never been a dope addict. Lisa at Eudaemonia has an excellent post today on how much of ourselves … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Up Next: If on a winter’s night a traveler
I’d read Chapter 1 of this about a month ago when I thought I couldn’t make it through Miller’s Topic of Cancer. I put it aside when my stubborn nature wouldn’t let me give up on Miller. Tonight I read … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Tropic of Cancer – Finale (No, really)
When I finished that last post I moved along into housework and such, wondering how I could be so flippant about a piece of work that’s considered a classic. I do understand the notion of classics not necessarily being known … Continue reading
LITERATURE: Tropic of Cancer – Finale
Some points of interest… Some seemingly philosophical soliloquies on the state of mankind, the government, and God. The idea of combining fact with fiction on such a personal level that the narrator is once referred to as "Henry" and why … Continue reading Continue reading
ASSIGNMENTS: Reassigning
With an eye to the future when this weblog will be just so much undecipherable dust, I’ve reassigned the stories I’ve written herein or hereout–in Hypertextopia–to a new "STORIES" category. Much of the false starts or in using them simply … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: F/S Person POV (Continued)
A tiny overlap and continued narrative: You light a cigarette and drag the phone cord through the kitchen, out the door, into the garage because your wedding vows included never smoking in the house. But you won’t tell Brad that … Continue reading Continue reading
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WRITING: First/Second Person POV
So here you are, close to ten years married, and the phone rings and you don’t recognize the caller ID phone number which makes you curious so you pick it up and say hello and a sexy baritone from deep … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Tropic of Cancer – Some Indication of Character
Miller’s character has been one filled with low regard for women–notwithstanding the obvious explanation that he is hanging out with whores. But there is a subtle empathy here: When I listen to the reproaches that are leveled against a girl … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology