Today is Good Friday and a new day on the writer's thread.
What is everybody reading? Carton, how is your first chapter going? Do you have time to write?
Posted on 03/23/2007 11:44:31 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Good thing you cannot hear me sing (cause I can't)...
But here is wishing you a very happy birthday.
Eat a piece of birthday cake for me. (Israel doesn't have good icing at all MHO)
Happy Birthday again!
thank you!
Today is Good Friday and a new day on the writer's thread.
What is everybody reading? Carton, how is your first chapter going? Do you have time to write?
How was your day?
I hope you are doing well!
I am doing great with another inch of rain and cool days here.
I work outside and think about a place where I am stuck in my writing. I hope to get unstuck soon.
I don’t think the custom at present is to title each chapter. But if you are thinking of a title for the whole book how about some variation of ‘let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees’?
It comes from a statement Jackson made before the war. He said, "if war does come, we need to draw our sword and throw away the scabbard." So the book's title is THROW AWAY THE SCABBARD.
Usually, when I am stuck, I go back over what I have done before so I don't get out of the habit of being before the manuscript every day.
“Two Away From Thirty” LOL
Ironically, Jackson and Lee saw completely eye-to-eye on such matters as bravery, honor, and military tradition, but Lee may well have done better to depend on Longstreet as a tactician. Longstreet was of course also a brave man, but not the modern-day knight of chivalry that Jackson and Lee both were.
Longstreet's was a more forward-thinking vision, and it marked him as a general of the Grant mold. He understood how to use modern weaponry to slaughter the enemy in industrial quantities.
But, I like Longstreet. After all, he's Old Pete.
I am Jackson fan first and foremost. And who does not love Jeb Stuart? Besides Sheridan. I admire Lee's character.
Proofread, proofread, proofread.
Oh my word...
The way I heard it best was, "Give yourself permission to suck."
"Writing," he told himself furiously, "...this thread is about writing!"
The war appears to be a study of the choice between losing nobly and winning ugly. That choice is the source of endless debate, none of which is appropriate to this thread. I confess, by way of conclusion, that I too admire men like Jackson. He was arguably the William Wallace of his cause, a man utterly devoted to victory and unafraid of death.
It is well that he was unafraid, for death certainly found him.
That works, in the interest of generating some ore to refine.
I have followed your advice and taken a very heavy editing pen to my manuscript. It really does create a new work.
Are you on the ping list?
What kind of writing do you do?
The other best advice I ever heard for writers was, “Every day, get dressed.” I once heard a story about John Cheever, who would get up every morning and put on a suit and tie. Then he’d take the elevator down to the basement of his apartment building, where he had a desk in the boiler room. There he would take off the suit, carefully hang it from a pipe, and work in his underwear to cope with the heat. At the end of the day, he’d put the suit back on and ride the elevator back up to his apartment.
I remember reading a quote from a famous writer whose name I can’t remember, from one of his letters: “I’m sorry this letter is so long; I didn’t have time to make it short.”
It's the title of a very silly movie in which Elvis Presley, having faked his death and now confined to a nursing home in Texas, battles an Egyptian mummy. Oh, and Ossie Davis plays JFK, also in the same home.
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No, but please add me.
What kind of writing do you do?
The short answer is "whatever pays." Mostly that means marketing copywriting of various sorts, although I dabble in screenwriting.
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