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Okay, I have just begun to work on the first of a series of recollections from my younger days. If all goes as planned, each will be presented here in the blog in the form of a fictional story, even though most of the incidents will (for the most part) be true happenings, or at least based on true happenings. Don't know how long it will take before I am satisfied with it. Could be a day or two, or three or four, or quite a bit longer.
Sometimes while revising the first rough draft of a story I have been known to dwell upon the best choice of a particular word or phrase for way too much longer than would seem necessary to a normal person.
Yeah, I do.
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Last Sunday, out on the pool deck at my son's house, a big black widow spider made itself known. I snapped a shot of it just before it seems to have somehow mysteriously disappeared forever.
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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Robert William Chambers
Born May 26, 1865
Died Dec. 16, 1933
Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer. His most famous, and perhaps most
meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, an 1895 collection of weird
short stories, connected by the theme of the fictitious drama The King
in Yellow, which drives those who read it insane. E. F. Bleiler
described The King in Yellow as one of the most important works of
American supernatural fiction.
The King In Yellow is available for download FREE in Kindle edition from Amazon.com.
Here is the link
Here is the link
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"Sometimes while revising the first rough draft of a story I have been known to dwell upon the best choice of a particular word or phrase for way too much longer than would seem necessary to a normal person."
ReplyDeleteGene,
I think it's quite normal to be abnormal. This is especially true for writers.
Dwelling upon words is what good writing is all about.
AVT
Anthony,
DeleteWhile still in my teens I always knew exactly which word I wanted to use when writing a story. Then, as I added more and more words to my vocabulary, I began to ponder as to whether the first word I penned was the one that best said what I wanted it to say. After discovering the Thesaurus, the duration of my pondering over words and phrases lengthened. I could never be sure that something better might be looming just beyond my conscious mental view.
Now, at the age where my memory is so much weaker, I depend almost wholly upon the online Thesaurus. And I thank whatever gods may exist for digital technology.
Thank you for your motivational comment.
Gene