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Blog the Seven and A Halfth? |
| This is just the second blog I've had at writing.com. It seems that every time someone gives me a bit of time here, or else, I end up with a few months there, I take advantage of it. What is it with me and blogs, anyway? I'm Beth_Ensley over in my blog at Lulu.com, in case anyone's curious. |
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901) English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936) ~ # ~ Truth is shorter than fiction. Irving Cohen ~ # ~ There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou US author & poet (1928 - ) --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man . . . - Sinclair Lewis (Babbitt) Ha! It's proven! I have arthritis in my shoulder and knee, but I also have an athlete's heart. (I'd better give it back, at some point). I have to make an appointment (actually, two of them, with two different doctors for separate things) for a regular physical. --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain (1835-1910) --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| From The Desk of Liz Ensley: The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. - Henry James (1843 - 1916) I have an outline done (Actually, about six rough outlines done, for major and minor plots), which I am in the middle of arranging by writing each point on an index card, for re-ordering, before I commit it to the story. I have not done much on the pre-NaNo, these past few days, because I'm in the middle of that, but it will be worth the effort: telling the story that's in my head, and in a coherent fashion, is well worth the effort of organizing the story's elements. Have you ever had the feeling, when writing, that you're a chronicler who's trying to organize the events to tell folks what-all happened to these other people who went through some stuff, and persevered despite it? I've been at that level, with this particular story, for a long time: and I'm ready, at long last, to make sense of it all.  Even if a lot of the elements in this book--in this series--are based off earlier events, ones tht occurred before this story begins, that particular series will have to wait until I'm done with my current one, because the stories are not related to each other. That is all right: it gives me plenty of material to write, in the future, along with TLGM (when I get back to it).--------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
If you find yourself getting bored as you think over your ideas and purposes, modify them to recapture your interest. - Leonard A. Podis - Joanne M. Podis Writing: Invention, Form, and Style (1984) --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
| I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964) --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. - Yevgeny Zamyatin  --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://nanonatter.blogspot.com/ |
| Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. } - Sharon O'Brien --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://elizabethanneensleywip.blogspot.com/ |
| The demonic paradox of writing: when you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you. - Andrew Holleran --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
NOVEL, n. A short story padded. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American satirist, journalist, and short-story writer The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 --------- Regards, Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://linksaplenty.blogspot.com |
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