Infrastructure in fiction–in the books we read–is usually deep background. Characters drive vehicles…on roads, streets, trails, whatever. If the writer sees the roads in his/her invented world as like the streets we have, then no reason to describe them…everybody knows what a street looks like; what matters is the person n a vehicle or on Read More…
Month: April 2021
NewBook Progress
Today–tonight, actually–I cleared up a major problem found late last week. In moving things from file to file, chunks of a secondary “transfer” file got mangled and I hadn’t noticed. Luckily, since I knew I wasn’t thinking as well as I used to, I kept multiple earlier drafts under different titles, and was able to Read More…
Sockin’ It
First pair of socks knitted start to finish (9:30-something tonight, begun in the mists of mid-concussion recovery) since the 2018 concussion are DONE. And on my very, very grateful feet. They’re a rich, deep, but vibrant blue. No pics, because they’re *on my feet!!* and it’s late and I’m really tired but celebrating with hot Read More…
Some Thoughts on WriterBrain, Second Rock
Dorothy L. Sayers, who wrote some of my favorite books, also wrote essays I’ve found very useful, especially her writing on the doctrine of the Trinity and its relation to creative writing and the kinds of problems that result from what she called “Scalene Trinities.” For the non-Christians (which I wasn’t when I first read Read More…
Some Thoughts on WriterBrain, First Rock (with a few decorations)
On another site, on which I’d written a long comment about the statement “ignorance is bliss” someone complimented my writing (always pleasant to hear) and thought my “story-writing brain” was completely back in service. Which–though much improved–it’s not. That’s not a venue in which to explain how many different components and levels a fiction writing Read More…
Flower, Flower, in the field…
Last spring we discovered a new-to-us non-native flower growing on the place, several patches of Scarlet Pimpernel (which in Texas look orange, not scarlet, but do have striking magenta down near the ovary. It looked like this: Today, R- found a similar looking flower on a different-looking plant, and so far we’re uncertain Read More…
Knitting a Book…One Stitch at a Time
At various appearances, book clubs, conventions, I’ve talked a little about how knitting socks connects to writing a story…and it does, although I didn’t start out writing stories as a kid with any such awareness. But what I’ve said before has new and deeper relevance in my struggles with both writing and knitting after the Read More…