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The great Carolyn See on writing: “Write your stuff, hide it, let it stack up. Reread it. Don’t worry about it. Don’t look for perfection.”
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Lines Ever Near My Brain: They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead. Such bitter news they brought me; such bitter tears to shed.
11:32 AM May 31st
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Another word to bring back: “Galoot” – a boorish, uncouth sort of fellow: from the Scottish pronunciation of “lout.” Like it?
10:53 AM May 31st
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Tallest Fishing Story ever (useful as an epic plot principle): “So you caught a whale?” “No. We were using whales as bait.”
9:32 AM May 30th
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Re-reading Borges: The garden’s grillwork gate/opens with the ease of a page/in a much-thumbed book. Call him (forgive me) Gorgeous Borges!
9:20 AM May 30th
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Character #2 pursuing #1 – good: Character #3 pursuing #2 who’s pursuing #1 – better. Re-read The Day of the Jackal – best thriller ever.
1:53 PM May 29th
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"Take my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass –Rose MacAulay.
1:01 PM May 29th
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Pigsong so far is my favorite of the @ Storyteller's series - looking forward to the next - "Sea-Folk"
4:57 PM May 27th
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So - the word “ogg”? The “ogg” is the stone in a fruit such as a plum or a cherry. Hasn’t been in vogue for a while: bring it back.
1:29 PM May 26th
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Lost words: Bring back the word, “Ogg” – especially as summer approaches. What does it mean? Find out here tomorrow.
10:30 AM May 25th
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J. Joyce 24 May 1924: I have refused scores of requests to sit to painters and sculptors, having a very profound objection to my own image.
9:02 AM May 24th
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Re: Joyce, Episode 102, is now live! See "Taking The Air" here:
11:28 AM May 23rd
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If your protagonist is about to tell a major lie – have the second untruth ready because he/she will need it. A lie has only one leg.
9:02 AM May 23rd
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Writing a historical novel? Choose a tangential figure – a prince’s accountant; a gunslinger’s daughter. Make their’s the worthwhile life.
9:02 AM May 22nd
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The decent characters in a novel should trot or lumber along; the evil people must glide because, old saying, the devil’s shoes don’t creak.
9:02 AM May 21st
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The Golden Rules: Are we (a) grabbed; (b) held; (c) rooting for someone? If we’re not – you’d better rewrite!
9:02 AM May 20th
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Take a favorite poetry anthology &count the number of prosodic structures. Choose the one you like most and write a poem in that discipline.
9:02 AM May 19th
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Birthday of Omar Khayham. “Come, fill the cup and in the fire of Spring/The winter-garment of Repentance fling.” Read him now and often.
9:02 AM May 18th
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Writing tip: Invent words. Create your language. It doesn’t have to be outrageous as long as we understand it, i.e., neological.
9:02 AM May 17th
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Today, 1791, James Boswell published his Life of Dr. Johnson – with, of course, Johnson safely long dead.
9:02 AM May 16th
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- Name Frank Delaney
- Location New York
- Web http://frankdelan...
- Bio Author & broadcaster. Tweets a daily writing tip & the writer's life. New novel: The Last Storyteller. Also: Re:Joyce, weekly podcast on Joyce's Ulysses.
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