I've repeated many times again that words is my business, and I'd like to add too a Number 11 (because everything should go up to eleven) "espouse the eschewal of obfuscation" in addition.
Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
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When I generously donated my œuvre [Fr. egg - Ed.] to the internet recently*, safe in the knowledge that none of youse bums can read anything more complex than a bumper sticker, I omitted the best of the Unpublished Pile, which in retrospect I'd underwritten. I'd been in such a hurry to tell the story (catnip for my pal Stephen King) that I'd glossed over technicalities like character, emotion, setting and all the other affectations that readers seem to appreciate. So I'm immersed in a total rewrite. Why, given that the chances of getting published are a little south of nil? Because it's fun, basically. Sometimes it's good to do something for its own sake. It'll appear here eventually, at the Graveyard of Good Ideas (an early option for the blog title). So that's how I'm spending most of my keyboard time these days. (As Dennis Wilson:) "If you have been, thank you for reading this."
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Swimming competition: Dennis Wilson vs. Brian Jones. Who wins?
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DeleteRobert floated more than swam, eh? And his kid may soon walk, but that's another...
DeleteSome of us One of us?) perused yer fancy French eggs œuvre easy...better than you give yourself credit for. That said, bumper stickers are about my speed when the speedsters slow down enough for me to read'em...just keep typing (sez the guy at almost 20,000 words for a fairly mindless 8000 word academic piece due end of the week...#fml
DeleteI have every hope that the fragrant Gizzle will be fully pardoned and recognised as the martyr and victim of Male Evil she is. Perhaps her own talk show? I mean, we've all forgotten about the Mossad connection, so we can put the Epstein business behind us too. It's the least we can do.
Deletehow to write good? good is G-O-O-D and wrong is W-R-O-G-N
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