Joseph L. Persia's Blog, page 22
September 4, 2013
Karen Woodward asks in her blog. "How did great writers structure their stories? And, beyond that, how...
She finds an article entitled, "On The Writing Of Speculative Fiction," by Robert A. Heinlein. It is the edited transcript from a lecture he gave. Heinlein discusses his famous 5 rules of writing. However, Heinlein's rules are not the usual forced rhetorical list proving nothing, but the old adage, "those who can't, teach."
These five rules reveal in a most clear way what a writer does when his story is structured the right way and is worth the time.
Also, since I found number 3, "Boy meets girl" is a subplot of my book under boy-meets-too-many-girls, you will more than likely see the structure of your own story within his 5 rules.
September 3, 2013
The Rose, a symbol laden with meaning or a hackneyed cliché?
One of the most pervasive symbols from...
One of the most pervasive symbols from the short story "A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner to Grateful Dead lyrics and their visual images “the rose” is a symbol laden with meaning.
The simple question I need help on is whether the rose as a symbol for the death of someone or something is too cliché to use. The implication of death is written into a later chapter leaving out what was once there and referring to it in the past tense in a subtle conversation of a different subject matter. The symbol of the rose would be placed as part of the setting of the room as the main character leaves the room an encounters it.
Again, is the visual image of a rose as a symbol of death or loss too cliché?
Because let me tell you, it been many hours if not days and a bitch to get right.
September 1, 2013
The Forgotten Literary Geniuses of The 1920s
Why these colorful, cigar chomping, and straw hat wearing...
Why these colorful, cigar chomping, and straw hat wearing writers who look like refuges from an all night political convention are forgotten has more to do with where we look for good writing than where we sometimes find it. We may not look to the sports writers of the 1920s for inspiration , but it's a good thing that the literary world that came after them in the late 1920s and 1930s did.
These intrepid scribes of the big game are all gone now, but there was a time they had great influence in the literary world. How influential, enough for a young Ernst Hemingway, writing sports for his high school paper, chose one of them as his pseudonym. F. Scott Fitzgeral, befriended them and wasted no effort in praising their creativity.
And from across the pound, "Virginia Woolf. Woolf, who wouldn’t have known a declaration of ball four from the Balfour Declaration remarked in a letter to a friend that Lardner “writes the best prose to come our [Britain’s] way” although often “in language which is not English.”"
First do you agree that they were influential and do you believe that literary genius is sometimes found in unlikely places?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/01/the-forgotten-genius-of-ring-lardner.html
August 29, 2013
Why teach English?
”English departments democratize the practice of reading. When they do, they make...
Why teach English?
”English departments democratize the practice of reading. When they do, they make the books of the past available to all. It’s a simple but potent act.”
The article linked from the New Yorker raises a good question. English departments seem to be heading down a path of the clumsy flightless bird, which became extinct about the end of the 17th century. The article mentions that Pomona College this spring had only sixteen students graduate with an English major out of a student body of 1,560, “a terribly small number, and from other, similar schools, other, similar numbers.”
Do you think the English departments are still relevant to both reader and writer as they once were?
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/08/why-teach-english.html
Photograph by Riccardo Venturi/Contrasto/Redux
August 28, 2013
What if girls were Internet browsers?
That’s the question that fashion photographer Viktorija Pashuta...
That’s the question that fashion photographer Viktorija Pashuta had been dying to answer for a long time before she finally got her chance in Fashion Affair Magazine.
August 27, 2013
Givers, Takers, and The Community
As a writer, among many other things, I always enjoy when I find ...
As a writer, among many other things, I always enjoy when I find someone who can say simply what I wanted to say and say it just as well. This man has said something I feel is important . I share it with you without malice or forethought.
August 26, 2013
Can new works from J.D. Salinger make him the best selling author of the beginning of this new century...
The world of literature has not seen a new J.D. Salinger since he stopped publishing in 1965 However, the most famous author who wanted to be left alone did not stop writing. Salinger continued writing until his death at the age of 91 in 2010. According to Salinger's will at least five unpublished Salinger books might be released beginning in 2015. They are said. To include more about his characters from the Glass and the Caulfield families. if this should be true it will be one of the most anticipated posthumous releases in American literature.
So, Can new works from J.D. Salinger make him the best selling author of the beginning of this new century?
Check out this clip!
August 25, 2013
This is a rare find, a 1967 Teenage Garage Band called, Fly-Bi-Nites doing their song, Found Love.
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There are only ten copies known to exist today according to collectors !...
Thanks to Debra Roberts for the find.
August 24, 2013
Reshared post from Christine DeGraff:
Original Post from Christine DeGraff:
CiRCLeQueeN's uLTiMaTe 24/7 PaRTY TRaiN!!!
If you are not on this train, you might be on the one leaving the +Circle Master station right now! If you are not on either... then you missed the train this time! Last week's circle has 429 reshares and 606 total shares (that includes the doubleshares).
Due to the tremendous number of reshares of my circles, I had to break it into two. Since I really do know most of you and try to check as many profiles as possible when I add new people, the criteria is changing. This circle is based on relevance to me and engagement as well as sharing. I was able to add some new people, but the ones that I did not recognize or did not have time to check are either on the other "train" or will have to wait to try to catch the next one :D. Some of you are in both because you are either relevant to both or got put in to balance it out, mix it up and to help share.
I don't think I need to tell anyone what to do. Share it! If you don't share, that's ok too - enjoy the free ride! BTW, +Michael Q Todd's ripples on last week's +Circle Master will blow you away if you happen to go look!!!
Happy Birthday +Derek Thomson!!!
People on this train who need friends!
+Josh Light 38 followers
+jw andrassy 38 followers
+John Yount 67 followers
+Yolanda Ocasio 76 followers
+holly foss 105 followers
+Emil Chevliagine 107 followers
I hope some of you will be sure to check them out, welcome them to G+ and add them as friends! G+ is more fun with friends.
Last week's party train is the No. 5 circle of all time on Google+ for the most reshares and last week's +Circle Master circle is No. 4!!!
http://www.circlecount.com/sharedcirclesall/
If you haven't already shared them... please give them a share as well!
CircleQueen:
https://plus.google.com/117778937939543425499/posts/MkufyMBhhio
CircleMaster:
https://plus.google.com/103394340181014348703/posts/114zMvcUe1j
ALL ABOARD!!!
#circlequeen #circlemaster #circles #sharedcircles #circlesharing
