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Post by syme on Mar 9, 2007 18:55:48 GMT -5
Indeed. You left a space after "href" that shouldn't be there. Thanks for the input, by the way. I haven't read Wendell Berry's piece, but I'll try to check it out this weekend.
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michelletherese
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Post by michelletherese on Mar 10, 2007 16:01:48 GMT -5
Syme wrote: "I forgot to ask: any tips on how to approach writing a novel?" Hmmmm. I'd say that it really helps if you know what your story is aboot. It doesnae matter if you have all o' the details or research worked oot. I flow-charted my novel several years ago - kinda like making a skeleton if thoo will! And I've since then been "fleshing it oot". However, I've remained very flexable and allowed my story tae go where it goes because sometimes your writing writes itself! (If that makes any sense...)
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Post by michelletherese on Mar 10, 2007 16:14:15 GMT -5
That whole muse-being-connected-tae-the-moon blather is deffinately a "girl thing" and I knew fellow women would ken! (understand) And no, it's nae too much information. After all *everything* aboot us wis called "good" by God!! **Grin** So why no tap intae it for creativity!!
I suppose I'd like tae have me book published by a Catholic publishing hoose because they don't often publish novels! They mostly concentrate on educational books and theology books. My book is 100% Catholic fantasy! So I would be breaking new grund with not just a novel but also christian fantasy if God wills that my book be published. (It's all up tae Him!) Why no, right? **Grin**
Firefolk, I'm extremely greatful for living oan this island and this fairm. I praise God every day for such an incredible blessing! I lived in Alaska before this and loved it - and noo I'm living here and loving it! Since I type really fast and I write really slow I find that my thoughts and ideas flow better when I type them down!! However, I handwrite my letters!! How I love writing letters!
("Firefolk" hmmm. Aire thoo a firefighter, buey? I was a firefighter in Alaska for years!) I will deffinately keep all ya'll here fae "Dappled Things" in me prayers!
Ok, I am officially stealing "Thundering Turtles" !!!!!!!
Moo, ya'll! Love and hugs and prayers fae the fairm,
-Michelle Therese
P.S. if thee want tae see photeys o' the fairm go tae me profile and click on my webpage. It's me blog and I have loads o' pics posted! Make sure to haunt the archives - sheep and coos galore!!
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Post by syme on Mar 10, 2007 20:55:22 GMT -5
Unless I'm very much mistaken, "firefolk" comes from a Hopkins poem, in which uses that word to refer to the stars. "Look at all the fire-folk sitting in the sky..." the line goes -- or something like that.
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Post by syme on Mar 10, 2007 21:13:29 GMT -5
By the way, isn't the quintessentail fantasy novel -- The Lord of the Rigns -- a Catholic fantasy novel?
So I guess you mean that yours is explicitly rather than implicitly so. Is that correct?
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Post by michelletherese on Mar 11, 2007 4:12:18 GMT -5
My novel (if published God willing) would be very explicitly Catholic. Not preachy Catholic but set in a Catholic Christendom like we used to have in the past.
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Post by firefolk on Mar 11, 2007 13:41:39 GMT -5
Yeah, "firefolk" comes from Hopkins, but you can call me Jamey if you like. (Alas, I'm no firefighter, but only a poor schmoe workin' at a hardware store.) I had a few goofy adventures in my misspent youth, but I enjoy a very quiet and simple life now; a hobbit's existence, if you will. Which reminds me--hot diggity, what a segue!--you're absolutely right, Katy, thou homie o' mine, Professor T's novel-writing days all started with that one strange providential word. His whole genius, indeed, seems to me to have lain in his plain trust of the inspiring Spirit: which is to say, he didn't try to "write," to sound pretty or profound; he just talked, as it were, and told the story that he was given to tell. His language is often beautiful and lofty (the High Speech), but it's totally free from affectation--you can tell that he would have effortlessly spoken so in normal conversation, had it seemed appropriate. Actually, I think Ms. Taryn put the matter about as well as I've ever seen it put, way up in the Dappled Discussion forum in the very last post yet made on there: "I want people to think, 'Creation is beautiful,' not 'Taryn is clever.'" She was speaking of photography, but the same maxim applies, if anything, even more to the writing of fiction. It's not about us, the writers--it's about the souls of the readers. If God chooses to touch them through our work, then He will.
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Post by syme on Mar 12, 2007 9:01:23 GMT -5
Michelle, have you read "A Canticle for Leibowitz," by any chance? I haven't yet, but it's considered one of the classics of science fiction writing and incorporates Catholicism very interestingly into its tale. Perhaps you could take a look for inspiration.
Has anybody here read that book, by the way? Is it as good as they say?
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Post by raindear on Mar 12, 2007 14:18:21 GMT -5
Syme,
Thanks for the tip. (:
MichelleTherese,
I love the pictures!
Also, I have been borrowing "Thunderin Turtles" from Louisa May Alcott (Tommy in Little Men, I believe) since the days of my youth and it is terrifically satisfying when uttered aloud with suitable vim and vigor.
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