On 2020-06-09 10:04:42 Crave said:
Experiment.. I like the way you smiled when you read that. That word can be the axis to your next blog post..
Show me when it's done. Can be anything from a sentence to an A5 page length... And,,,, go
And she smiled again...
On 2020-06-09 10:33:08 Ben Layden said:
By your favour ma'am:
Some people have the gift for words.
Most people today are tone deaf to the beauty of English prose and poetry.
Take Shakespeare for example.
He didn't write to impress anyone.
He wrote plays for a company of strolling actors called The Lord Chamberlain's men.
Shakespeare's motivation was to make money. It was his livelihood. His band of strolling actors were considered little better than vagabonds.
Stage actors were considered very low class people. And yet they could read and memorize overnight long speeches from Shakespeare's plays which they were expected to perform the following day.
Another example would be Jane Austen.
She wrote exquisitely and beautifully.
And yet she did not consider her fiction a big deal. She was a loving aunt and nephews and nieces adored "aunt Jane".
Her wish was to be remembered as a loving aunt and not as a great writer.
Then consider the Bronte sisters. They were the daughters of a priest on the bleak , cold Yorkshire country. Their main focus was their domestic chores and tending to their sick father. In between their domestic chores they scribbled the most amazing fiction.
I could go on.....
That was a good read. I suddenly feel the urge to get a new novel.
On 2020-06-09 15:42:35 gooseberry22 said:
@Lupe Luxe you may find Stephen King's 'On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft' an interesting read.
Thanks. I'll look it up :)
Edited: 2020-06-09 18:14:51
A House for Mr.Biswas...by V.S.Naipaul.
On 2020-06-09 22:02:28 letjolotjolo said:
The American writer James Ellroy who wrote LA Confidential which was made into a movie and a lot of other stuff once wrote an essay entitled "Where I get my weird shit" - pretty scary - he witnessed the murder of his own mother
There ought to be a book called:
Letjolotjolo's Crudities.
On 2020-06-09 18:13:50 semensquirter said:
This book will tackle all your emotions...
A House for Mr.Biswas...by V.S.Naipaul.
Emotions you say... my kinda stuff. :)
On 2020-06-09 20:31:53 Tegwane said:
Leon Uris. The Haj a fantastic[QUOTE;2360848;Tegwane] Leon Uris. The Haj a fantastic, enlightening but very long read
I wonder how long.... I have had a fat book here for over 6months now, I guess I'm also finding it not so fun to read.
I google your suggestion though ;-)
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