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 A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
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Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end. So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.     |
| Quotation Schmotation Whenever writers start slinging advice around, you can bet that the old Hemingway quotes will come out. Which I’m sure is very edifying for most, but not for me. My problem is that I never liked Hemingway. Don’t like his style or his subject matter or his attitude. Never have and, in all likelihood, never will. So it’s predictable that I won’t take any notice of what he had to say about writing. The strange thing is that the writer of that generation that I admire the most, J.D. Salinger, was a great fan of Hemingway’s, in his younger days at least. I am prepared to overlook this one weakness in the great Salinger, however, and would be happy to listen to any advice he might have given. And the same goes for Steinbeck, even though he was a bit of a one-subject man. Word count: 145 |
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