Posted on 08/05/2005 2:04:23 AM PDT by Argh
I bet you could write a book about your Grandfather and Grandmother. Sounds as if they had a ball together.
Did Wisconsin raise the white flag? LOL!
Yeah, well, that writing a book thing...where do I get published? I need to find a magazine that wants my stories, then I am off. Don't have time to research it, yet.
Madison and its University Campus raised the white flag after only a few hours, Miss Slip.
While others gathered around to laugh.
Jack.
It's a short story, but Readers' Digest would love it. I do believe on the inside cover is a place to mail a manuscript. You'd have to add a few more tidbits of info to make it longer, but they would love it, IMHO.
Hey xs, take that for 20%. Laconic.
Meriam-Webster's version of laconic:
Main Entry: la·con·ic
Pronunciation: l&-'kä-nik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin laconicus Spartan, from Greek lakOnikos; from the Spartan reputation for terseness of speech
: using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
synonym see CONCISE
- la·con·i·cal·ly /-ni-k(&-)lE/ adverb
I know that - that is my writing style. ;)
Just add a few descriptive adjectives. "My Grandfather with the frosty white hair and gnarled hands . . ."
Oh, and as I recall, there's a Military section in Readers' Digest.
It can be done, you know. And it conveys the message, even if not poetically.
Give me a few - I have to think.
Making fun of my family again, are you? Gramp was a Newfie.
I loved your story, patton-you really should try to get it published.
Someday, I hope to write a novel about this rural Peyton Place we live in-I will call it "The Winter People", which is what we all jokingly call ourselves (permanent residents as opposed to the "summer people" and "townies" who leave at the end of summer). I've written short stories and poetry for magazines in the past, but never a novel-I haven't written anything for anyone but myself for years, though I already have a partial outline of the thing-I want it to be more like stories about individual characters and their relationships, strung together by a common thread of living in the same small community, rather than a central story and plot with character interactions as an aside. Might not work for me, but it did work in "Peyton Place", "Parrish" and several other novels about rural goings-on...
Really? How interesting-I've honestly never met anyone from Newfoundland before. My family wasn't from anyplace particularly interesting at all.
One grandparent from Scotland, one from Denmark, one from Newfoundland and one(the DAR one) from Brooklyn. I'm a mutt!
You need at least two illicit love affairs. One with a spolied, home wrecking, adulterous, raven haied vixen. An addled grandparent locked up in the attic or basement. A Family Secret (Dad is a Conservative living in a Liberal Community, or vice versa) And two young people falling in love, preferably a male and a female.
Should sell pretty well, Texan.
Jack.
Um, I was looking at jack's response...and, um, nevermind. LOL.
My Mexican/Indian antecedents were already in what is now Texas before any of the Irish or Germans came, but a few were still in Mexico. My only other ancestors were German (West Prussian) and came in the early 1830's, with a smattering of Irish from an Irish/Mexican family already here that my great grandfather several times removed married into. No one from exotic locations, little known countries or misplaced royalty-I'm a mutt, too...
There is a surfeit of those elements here, especially the adultery-I have neighbors who are into wife swapping and nude dancing/swimming parties. Up the road lives a lesbian couple, one of whom works with hubby in the city, another neighbor up the road is known as "the loon" whom you have, I'm sure heard me mention before-she is truly nuts, picks up men in bars, gets arrested for public brawling and drunkeness and is an embarrassment to her teenaged son-and the fanciest house on the road belongs to one of the only liberals in the community-and they never get invited to road parties any more because the wife outed them two years ago on the Fourth of July. And that is just on the road we live on...
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