Tuesday, November 15, 2005
writing and 5 + 1 = 3 not 6
Edited to add: ohmygod, you have to go read this: World's most Comprehensive Junk email
Yes, I got a lot done at my son's soccer practice. I completely recast the situation the heroine's going to be in and that makes me feel much better. I'd all but finished the synopsis when I just got the nagging voice that said "But I don't want to do it that way!!" So I listened to the voice for a bit and decided I was right. (Look, I have no illusions about where the voices are coming from.) So now my heroine is completely different and I feel happier.
Which is good.
Because...
Let's pretend for a moment that I went off the deep end again and performed such stupid web tricks as checking amazon reviews. I know, I know, you're saying, "Carolyn would never do something so stupid." Just pretend. Sigh. The thing is, 5 plus 1 = 3. People seem to either hate my writing or love it. There's rarely an in between.
Yes, I got a lot done at my son's soccer practice. I completely recast the situation the heroine's going to be in and that makes me feel much better. I'd all but finished the synopsis when I just got the nagging voice that said "But I don't want to do it that way!!" So I listened to the voice for a bit and decided I was right. (Look, I have no illusions about where the voices are coming from.) So now my heroine is completely different and I feel happier.
Which is good.
Because...
Let's pretend for a moment that I went off the deep end again and performed such stupid web tricks as checking amazon reviews. I know, I know, you're saying, "Carolyn would never do something so stupid." Just pretend. Sigh. The thing is, 5 plus 1 = 3. People seem to either hate my writing or love it. There's rarely an in between.
posted by Carolyn @ 11/15/2005 09:21:00 PM Permalink
Comments:
F.L. Lucas (New Statesman and Nation) on T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland:
Unintelligible, the borrowings cheap and the notes useless.
Joseph Conrad on D.H. Lawrence:
Filth. Nothing but obscenities.
Samuel Pepys on Shakespeare:
...and then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer NIght's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.
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Unintelligible, the borrowings cheap and the notes useless.
Joseph Conrad on D.H. Lawrence:
Filth. Nothing but obscenities.
Samuel Pepys on Shakespeare:
...and then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer NIght's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.
