I accept the challenge to actually read something by James Joyce.
Just pick up The Dubliners and read "The Dead." It's a masterpiece and there's nothing stunt-like or attention-getting in his writing there. Except for its exceptional beauty.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
The Great Write Way
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DavidS - Jan 19, 2003 6:55:50 pm PST #444 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Jan 19, 2003 7:00:21 pm PST #445 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I have read Joyce before...and kind of get high off the sound.(Except for Portrait..., which I read in hs and killed my buzz.) But the understanding, NSM. Literary Accent-Oost?
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 5:54:17 am PST #446 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
A 'go team me' bulletin: 9 pages written yesterday. 53 pages total for this month, which is a blazing fast pace for me. Yesterday I also read through about a hundred pages of old prose of another linked story to this one and actually kind of liked it.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 21, 2003 9:17:19 am PST #447 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Hey, I'm impressed! Go Theo.
Ms. Havisham - Jan 21, 2003 9:53:02 am PST #448 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
Nine in one day! Wow!
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 9:56:21 am PST #449 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
And it's all pretty much one conversation. I should gag my characters more often, but then they'd start miming out stuff....
Ms. Havisham - Jan 21, 2003 9:57:42 am PST #450 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
No, no, no, dialog rocks. I love writing dialog, but I've never gotten it to last nine pages. (I don't think. I'd have to check.)
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 10:10:22 am PST #451 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'll send over some of my characters with a cup of chatter. You will be sorry.
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 10:12:43 am PST #452 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Also, the conversation these characters are having hasn't finished yet. And they're about to be interupted by a third character bearing news that they will have to discuss. Possibly shouting will be involved.
Ms. Havisham - Jan 21, 2003 10:28:40 am PST #453 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
I assume they're not just standing around, though. Arguing while you're driving on a snowy highway is always interesting.