tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post115932639530594373..comments2024-03-28T02:36:55.037-04:00Comments on Brooklyn Arden: Drinks Night Reminder & Editorial MetaphorCherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972029478350879112noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1159589091440876862006-09-30T00:04:00.000-04:002006-09-30T00:04:00.000-04:00My problem with the tire metaphor is that it seems...My problem with the tire metaphor is that it seems like my car actually has about 50 or more tires, some of which are invisible to my eyes, though I have a bad feeling that everyone else can see them. And the tires like to come off the car and roll away at odd moments and I have to chase them. And the spare is flat and I can't find the tire jack.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I'd better go to sleep!Melinda R. Cordellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924404257237523106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1159390036032322272006-09-27T16:47:00.000-04:002006-09-27T16:47:00.000-04:00Hi Cheryl!Wow! Your editorial "nuggets" are fanta...Hi Cheryl!<BR/><BR/>Wow! Your editorial "nuggets" are fantastic. While editing, I think many writers just do what feels right. We're so into our characters, it's hard to look at the story in terms of mechanics and "moving the car forward."<BR/><BR/>I guess that's why we have editors! Thanks for sharing. I'm going out to rotate my tires now.<BR/><BR/>EveDisco Mermaidshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16749764215612594204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1159378766277637512006-09-27T13:39:00.000-04:002006-09-27T13:39:00.000-04:00Oh, for drinks with the bloggers! I hate to miss i...Oh, for drinks with the bloggers! I hate to miss it but the bass player is back from two weeks away, and so Thursday night band practice is, well, NECESSARY. Another time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1159374688702727822006-09-27T12:31:00.000-04:002006-09-27T12:31:00.000-04:00Cheryl! “…end in delight for us all…” Yes! Yes! In...Cheryl! “…end in delight for us all…” <BR/><BR/>Yes! Yes! Internet high five! I love that feeling of closing a book with a sigh of satisfaction and it leaves a smooth taste in your mouth, that warm feeling like you’ve just eaten an excellent meal with friends. <BR/><BR/>I finally finished “Master and Commander” and the ending did surprise me. I was expecting the big “Star Wars” ending, with a boatload of trumpets proclaiming the triumph of our plucky heroes kicking major bad guy butt. Instead there was a different kind of victory that was completely and utterly more satisfying. It snuck up on me like a puzzle where you can’t tell what the picture is going to be until the last piece is in place, then “whoa”! Captain Aubrey acted not in a predictable way but in one that, having lived with the character for several hundred pages, made delicious sense.<BR/><BR/>It did take a while to get use to the heavy use of period detail; did I really need to know that the logs were kept in a tidy copperplate? (Actually from a typographer’s point of view that was interesting.) And about the fourth time Dr. Maturin was dissecting a Macadamian Fruit Lemur, or some such thing, I wanted to call O’Brian at home at three in the morning and yell, “I get it! He dissects things! Constantly! Can’t you have him doing something else in a scene to show he’s brilliant Enlightenment guy?” But these are small, undeserved nitpicks, like criticizing a good Cabernet for not being sweet. I’m off to buy “Post Captain”.<BR/><BR/>Good luck with your talk, I know you will rock the house, and thank you, thank you for sharing this gold.<BR/><BR/>Marilyn.Thetoymakershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405265800595978197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1159362800435226572006-09-27T09:13:00.000-04:002006-09-27T09:13:00.000-04:00I wish I were in NY. I need to get Sunday in the ...I wish I were in NY. <BR/>I need to get <I>Sunday in the Park with George</I>. I have an image of the painting as my desktop wallpaper on my work computer to remind me that my writing is waiting for me when I get discouraged having to be the 'dayjob me'.<BR/>Thank you for the information you put in your blog and on your website. Having read <I>Pride and Prejudice</I> at least once for every year of my life, your lecture transcripts have helped me with my novel. The tire metaphor will, also.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1159330538069584002006-09-27T00:15:00.000-04:002006-09-27T00:15:00.000-04:00I can't even tell you how jealous I am of your Eng...I can't even tell you how jealous I am of your England vacation! Chatsworth sounds lovely. It is now on my must-do list for when I go back to the UK.Jenny Hanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08748342360866170726noreply@blogger.com