Reading Lists, Writing Examples, Making The Writing Work

 I got suckered a little by the following video, then I realized it's value.

 It gives us a list not compiled by some stody old fart. That's its value.

7 Habits of Highly Annoying Novels - by Cristin White - pay attention to his editing of one passage, if nothing else!

Why Multiple POVs Can Make Readers Love Your Characters More - Helping Writers Become Authors is important to me because this is what my “Dead and Dying” stories turned "Scenes from a Small Indiana Factory” has been trying to do. So far, no success. Whether that is because no one outisde of Indiana finds the stories interesting, or because I borrowed my presentation from The Spoon River Anthology, or both, occupies my mind. Maybe it will find a home for publication before I die.

 The Story Hook Writers Miss (Not the One You Think!) has something that I particularly like, support for my own ideas. It came from reading Bertolt Brecht wanting a theater that made people think. My response was that 's cool but how do you keep their behinds in theater seats? People have to feel some attraction to the characters, that's how we keep them in their seats. This is one thing that I am still working on; it seems with my latest revisions, I am getting closer. Now, do I have time to make it all work and write something worth reading?

Think about it. Hemingway does it. Toni Morrison does it, too. 

Talk about the ultimate wounded hero, the defiant underdog, the man risking loss, the man fighting for his ideals against the world: Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project (The Guardian). Do I mean Don Quixotic or Welles? Take your pick; take both.

Never Publish a Book Without Checking This (I’m an Editor) is way ahead of where I am, but for two things. I like BookFox and its advice. Second, it reassures me that I need to work on making sure the opening chapter establishes the book. (I need do some work on that!)

 

All of which leaves me feeling like this:

 sch 7/15