Posted on 03/23/2007 11:44:31 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Squarebarb:
There were some of us including GOPpoet who were thinking of starting a writer's thread here on FR. There's a horse thread, a football thread, a Hobbit Hole thread, so why not a thread for us writers?
And mainly sticking to fiction otherwise the discussion tends toward politicsa iinstead of the craft of writing.
Okay Eleutheria5, YOU start the thread."
Eleutheria5:
On it. Could use some help from someone who knows how to do HTTP and other techy stuff, though. Tried to learn, but drat that right hemisphere dominance we creative folks have. I've actually been running a board on the aol writers' club since 1996 called Conservative Writers' Club. Mostly it simply fights flame wars with liberal writers, though, and all the conservative contributors, including me, burn out. It'd be great to get away from that and just swap ideas with people who DON'T wish every one of us a flaming death.
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Whoever starts the lists please add me!
Add me to the Ping! (Of course I will Pong!)
What? You saying I DON'T write like Hemingway?!
Die. Painfully.
Whoa, the threads first flame fight! Now its really for real.
YOU, on the other hand, write MUCH BETTER than Hemingway.
(How's that for a save?)
Well, other than the fact you just insulted the hell out of Hemingway, great!
Please add me to the ping list as well.
"Off at six," she had said. He walked for hours in the rain, searching for her address. It was written on the cinders of his alleged heart. He had lost everything.
He had lost his kitten, his lunch, his marbles, and now he was about to lose her. Her wet lips, her drabjous eyes.
Write like yourself. If you want to write differently, be different.
Wise words. Just write. And don't hit the "send" button. Can't forget that one.
Was that your commentary on Hemingway, or a short story written in the drunk style of writing?
And don't apologize for how bad it turned out. Remember that if your audience knew how to write, they wouldn't have asked you to do it for them.
Now I need to figure out if I'm not published because I write like me, or because I don't write like me.
Damn.
I forget.
Yes, but on the other hand, we all need our time of apprenticeship.
If you admire Hemingway it doesn't hurt to end up imitating him for a while.
Look at how much Cormac McCarthy learned from Hemingway. I would say a lot.
We learn from our favorite writers, we don't start out tabula rasa.
drabjous?
Seems to me what we have here, is a new freeper legacy word. This is vey series, and hugh!
You now can get your beeber stuned.
Which is not to accuse you of laziness, but rather to assure you that persistence pays off.
I decided to become a writer one day in my college dorm, when I tossed aside a paperback sci-fi novel I'd paid good money for at the campus bookstore and thought "This is CRAP!" My next thought was "Heck, if that guy can get published, I'm a shoo-in."
Yes, drabjous. Compelling, but in a completely boring sort of way -- so boring that you are strangely attracted to their boringness.
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