General Writing

  1. My First Blog

    I have just posted my first short story here and hope I can get some constructive or even destructive comments. My goal is to by summer time write eight stores, enough for my first book collection. I am working on five so far. I list them here, if only for my self-organizing benefit. 1. Blue Jeans Love This is finished and requires a heavy editing process. 2. Detective story I got to half of this project and then realized there was a confusion of clues. The only way to address the...
  2. Style and Heart

    I found myself having to reread William Faulkner's advice. He says, simply, that writers should write from the soul - the heart - of such things as "compassion and sacrifice and endurance." He spoke of universal truths. An idealist, I am constantly moved by his words. I recently read a review of the Academy Awards ceremony and it pointed to a "meanness" attitude of irony and sarcasm pervading among youth today. The Awards criticism derived from the way women's boobs were spoofed and...
  3. Why does bad literature sell so good?

    I have the same problem with bad literature, but I certainly understand that it sells and that it is popular. I do not want to be a snob, but I haven't read and do not plan to read HP or the Twilight series. Recently, for some project, I had to read Hunger Games and had the most terrible experience reading it. I thought the book was idocracy. Then I had to watch the movie. It was pure torture for me, and to think they're coming out with a series. But I do read popular literature for...
  4. Short Story Club (4): The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

    Here was a man who did not like women, he thought of them as the "lower race" and yet he could not do without women. In their society he "was at ease with them even when he was silent." A force drew him to women just as his own elusive character "allured women and disposed them in his favour." The reason Gurov did not like women was simply because he was in a bitter relationship with his wife. Because of her, he could surmise (imagine) that "every intimacy" at first agreeable always...
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