As I mentioned in my last post, I am having to ask all blog followers here to switch over manually to following my new blog. Ugh. I feel terrible about this - I hate asking people to go out their way for anything! (In my hardware store worker days, I would be hauling a handtruck full of freight to its proper department, see two people standing and chatting in the aisle I need to go down, and without even thinking about saying "excuse me" I would go the long way around, just to not interrupt their chat. It's kind of extreme.)
Anyway, here is the link to my latest post: My Name, My Friend ... Emily.
After today, I will be doing all my posting over there, no more links or anything here, so please, if you want to keep up with the blog, do click over there and follow. Thank you, and I apologize again!
(Oh, and I've turned off comments here, just to encourage conversation over on the other blog instead of this one.)
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Switching Over
OK, friends, this has defeated me.
I have searched and attempted and tried again, and I can't seem to transfer my followers from this blog to my new one. So sorry!
So, although I really, really hate to do it this way, I'm going to have to.
Starting Monday, all new posts will be going up at StarDance Press' blog, not here.
So if you want to keep reading the blog, go to this link:
StarDance Press Blog
and click "follow."
Again, I am so sorry to have to ask you to do this! I know I will lose some followers over this move, and I understand why. Just know that I managed to switch all the people I follow over to the new blog, so I will still be keeping up with all of you, even if you don't come to the new place.
Thank you! I'll post a link to the new post Monday morning, and then this blog will go silent.
I have searched and attempted and tried again, and I can't seem to transfer my followers from this blog to my new one. So sorry!
So, although I really, really hate to do it this way, I'm going to have to.
Starting Monday, all new posts will be going up at StarDance Press' blog, not here.
So if you want to keep reading the blog, go to this link:
StarDance Press Blog
and click "follow."
Again, I am so sorry to have to ask you to do this! I know I will lose some followers over this move, and I understand why. Just know that I managed to switch all the people I follow over to the new blog, so I will still be keeping up with all of you, even if you don't come to the new place.
Thank you! I'll post a link to the new post Monday morning, and then this blog will go silent.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Soon-to-be New Home!
Just a quick post today to let you all know that I've been working on a shiny new website - StarDance Press - and as soon as I figure out how to transfer all my feeds and such over there, I'll start using that exclusively. If I do the switch-over properly, it shouldn't really affect any of you, but seeing as how so far I've screwed everything up the first time and had to go back and redo, I'm guessing there will be some more hiccups along the way.
This is so not my forte. But hey, I'm learning!
In the meantime, feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. It's a work in progress still, and while part of me would rather wait until everything's perfected to tell you all about it, the other part of me would love some advice and opinions!
(Also, if you have any tips for switching followers and fixing it so that people are automatically redirected to the new blog when they click on this one ... that would be awesome. All the tutorials I've found online either require a level of expertise beyond my knowledge, or else just plain don't work with what I've got.)
Happy Thursday!
This is so not my forte. But hey, I'm learning!
In the meantime, feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. It's a work in progress still, and while part of me would rather wait until everything's perfected to tell you all about it, the other part of me would love some advice and opinions!
(Also, if you have any tips for switching followers and fixing it so that people are automatically redirected to the new blog when they click on this one ... that would be awesome. All the tutorials I've found online either require a level of expertise beyond my knowledge, or else just plain don't work with what I've got.)
Happy Thursday!
Monday, April 8, 2013
The Rules
I was reading The Secret Adversary for about the millionth time this weekend, and when I got to the part where Tommy acted completely out of character, I had to stop and ponder it for a few moments.
I love that part. It's one of my favorites. Sober, steady, practical Tommy acts completely impulsively, and it's way better than if the same action was taken by Tuppence, who is KNOWN for her impulsiveness.
Now, most of the time, when a character does something completely foreign to their personality, it drives me nuts. So why does it work so well for Tommy?
I think it's because Christie, as the narrator (she's not quite an omniscient narrator in this one, but it's definitely not a tight third-person POV) acknowledges that he's acting OOC, and so does Tommy himself. I also think it's because it really does happen, in real life, that the predictable steady people DO occasionally get wild impulses, and give into them without understanding the why or the how of it. So even though it's OOC, it's still believable, and it makes for a great scene, and builds up to some that are even better.
I like reading authors like Christie, who wrote before the era of "Rules for Writing," and wouldn't have cared a fig for them if she did (she scatters adverbs wildly) (haha - get it? Wildly? OK, I'm done). She wrote according to her own internal rules, and she never broke them, and it shows.
I break a lot of the so-called Rules in my own writing. But I have a set of my own rules, and the few times I've tried (guiltily) to break them, it makes a mess. And sometimes when I start to fret about The Rules, I remind myself of Christie, and then I feel better. Not that I'm the genius she was! But like her, my rules are more important to follow than The Rules.
As long as you understand what you're doing and why, and you are doing it deliberately, I think The Rules should go out the window.
Where do you stand on the matter?
James Warwick as Tommy Beresford
I love that part. It's one of my favorites. Sober, steady, practical Tommy acts completely impulsively, and it's way better than if the same action was taken by Tuppence, who is KNOWN for her impulsiveness.
Now, most of the time, when a character does something completely foreign to their personality, it drives me nuts. So why does it work so well for Tommy?
I think it's because Christie, as the narrator (she's not quite an omniscient narrator in this one, but it's definitely not a tight third-person POV) acknowledges that he's acting OOC, and so does Tommy himself. I also think it's because it really does happen, in real life, that the predictable steady people DO occasionally get wild impulses, and give into them without understanding the why or the how of it. So even though it's OOC, it's still believable, and it makes for a great scene, and builds up to some that are even better.
I like reading authors like Christie, who wrote before the era of "Rules for Writing," and wouldn't have cared a fig for them if she did (she scatters adverbs wildly) (haha - get it? Wildly? OK, I'm done). She wrote according to her own internal rules, and she never broke them, and it shows.
I break a lot of the so-called Rules in my own writing. But I have a set of my own rules, and the few times I've tried (guiltily) to break them, it makes a mess. And sometimes when I start to fret about The Rules, I remind myself of Christie, and then I feel better. Not that I'm the genius she was! But like her, my rules are more important to follow than The Rules.
As long as you understand what you're doing and why, and you are doing it deliberately, I think The Rules should go out the window.
Where do you stand on the matter?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)