Covers, covers and damn statistics (wait, I got that wrong).

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by obs20

Thank you. I Just put it on the Sony; going to read it tonight.

Thanks for reading

EDIT: And thanks to everyone for sparing some of your time and reading the story.

[omk3]

Downloaded it, read it, and eager for more.

Not a happy topic, but the imagery was vivid and will stay with me, more than any news reports. Rorschach sands - even seeing a rorschach pattern where everyone sees only random destruction leaves me speechless. (my words, as usual, are weak. that's why we have you writers around)

Thanks again for sharing, and can I have some more, please, sir?
(Careful, the masses are getting greedy )

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by omk3

Downloaded it, read it, and eager for more.

Not a happy topic, but the imagery was vivid and will stay with me, more than any news reports. Rorschach sands - even seeing a rorschach pattern where everyone sees only random destruction leaves me speechless. (my words, as usual, are weak. that's why we have you writers around)

Thanks again for sharing, and can I have some more, please, sir?
(Careful, the masses are getting greedy )

That's exactly where the story came from, a simple observation I think anybody might have made. I'd been watching the horrific news reports and a brilliant video investigation by Attack of the Show (which put the BBC and everyone else to shame) and I'd wanted to write something about how angry and powerless the whole thing made me feel. I just didn't have any way to do it. Then I saw the pictures on http://blogs.tampabay.com/photo/2010...ola-beach.html and I thought Rorschach test. Everything else just came from that one observation (I don't plot or plan or any of that kind of thing. When I do plan ahead, those plans fail spectacularly.)

There'll be a lot more now I'm in my groove again I have the Yves and Liseuse stories coming this week, Rainbirds should be up by next week (no concrete time yet) and I have three or four longer works coming together in bits and bobs now - I'm currently obsessed with mermaids, Costa Rican ground coffee and a jukebox that plays exactly the song that fits your mood, but is in no way magical.

[omk3]

Fresh ways to look at the same old things: that's what I most appreciate about literature, and art in general. Being able to see known things and experiences in a new light every time - what an amazing gift.

The jukebox that plays exactly the song that fits your mood sounds... magical. (as in, not related to magic, but...erm I hope you know what I mean). It would make a perfect story. In fact, I would like one for myself.

[obs20]

A nice piece of proletarian writing. It reminds me a bit of Steinbeck with an atmosphere Bradbury. However I live in Florida, so some of the dialogue didn't ring true for me. I would love to read this piece if with a setting was The North Sea.
There's a reason Steinbeck wrote about Salinas County. It's the same reason Vonnegut wrote mostly about Central New York State and Indiana. Carl Hiaasen sticks mostly to Florida.

Thanks for the story.

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by obs20

A nice piece of proletarian writing. It reminds me a bit of Steinbeck with an atmosphere Bradbury. However I live in Florida, so some of the dialogue didn't ring true for me. I would love to read this piece if with a setting was The North Sea.
There's a reason Steinbeck wrote about Salinas County. It's the same reason Vonnegut wrote mostly about Central New York State and Indiana. Carl Hiaasen sticks mostly to Florida.

Thanks for the story.

Thanks for the review. Although it's not actually set anywhere in the real world (I very rarely write about the real world, at least the real world that is identified by names and places). 'You' set it in Florida.

As a point of interest, the white sandy beaches I'm describing are actually Spanish. In my imagination this story takes place in an amalgam of Southport/Blackpool/Lloret De Mar and Cypress (Aya Napa and Limassol). I am not by any stretch of yours or my imagination, a realist.

EDIT: And you've just listed all my favourite writers, which is uncanny (apart from Hiassan, who I've read, but not a favourite). Maybe there is something to this being influenced malarky

[obs20]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Thanks for the review. Although it's not actually set anywhere in the real world (I very rarely write about the real world, at least the real world that is identified by names and places). 'You' set it in Florida.

As a point of interest, the white sandy beaches I'm describing are actually Spanish. In my imagination this story takes place in an amalgam of Southport/Blackpool/Lloret De Mar and Cypress (Aya Napa and Limassol). I am not by any stretch of yours or my imagination, a realist.

EDIT: And you've just listed all my favourite writers, which is uncanny (apart from Hiassan, who I've read, but not a favourite). Maybe there is something to this being influenced malarky

It is the just the teacher in me that would have you do it over. I do it to everybody. Yet, I know that I myself am not a good writer.
I was thinking of starting a thread on proletariat writing. One such writer, Karen Maitland, who wrote Company of Liars and The Owl Killers has really made an impression on me. Imagine a medieval thriller without a noble or clergyman mentioned.
Anyway, back to oil spills and passion. Heres a recent piece by Carl Hiaasen:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/2...e-becomes.html

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by obs20

It is the just the teacher in me that would have you do it over. I do it to everybody. Yet, I know that I myself am not a good writer.
I was thinking of starting a thread on proletariat writing. One such writer, Karen Maitland, who wrote Company of Liars and The Owl Killers has really made an impression on me. Imagine a medieval thriller without a noble or clergyman mentioned.
Anyway, back to oil spills and passion. Heres a recent piece by Carl Hiaasen:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/2...e-becomes.html

Ahh the teacher's curse is it? I feel your pain, I'm an ex-teacher myself. You should start up a thread on proletariat writing, I'd be very interested in a discussion on that topic and to learn some more about the classification. I've bookmarked the Hiassan piece for later on, along with my other non-fiction dailies.

On a separate note, and because Feedbooks is cooler than the Fonz, check out the cool statistical thingy-me-bob you get access to when you publish on there.



Go ePub, ra ra ra!!

[GeoffC]

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[omk3]

Looks extremely spam-ish to me - and the phrase is what I said in a previous post in this thread, word for word:

Originally Posted by omk3

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Great news, a good story to lift the spirits after the game. The timing is perfect

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by omk3

Looks extremely spam-ish to me - and the phrase is what I said in a previous post in this thread, word for word:

Okay, my thought too - so I've flagged it ..... Cheers for the second opinion ...

[omk3]

By they way, Moejoe, how about the real Yves and Liseuse stories?
Just asking, no pressure

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by omk3

By they way, Moejoe, how about the real Yves and Liseuse stories?
Just asking, no pressure

don't give him ideas .... :nudge:

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by omk3

By they way, Moejoe, how about the real Yves and Liseuse stories?
Just asking, no pressure

They're coming this weekend, I got distracted writing a story about D. Boon and then watching a documentary on the Minutemen (the great band, not the fascist nutballs who 'protect' the US border with Mexico). And then I started two stories about Captain Beefheart but they went nowehere, and both ended in the desert but did not end... in any case...soon, very soon

[Moejoe]

Okay, did I miss something? Was there a post or something about a single mom? I feel like K.