tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21496172.post1297805258667167179..comments2023-10-11T00:48:58.623-07:00Comments on Words in Place: September Sentiments/Georgia Review/Hillary, and I don't mean ClintonGay Deganihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03609404497703663916noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21496172.post-9703350408902146302008-09-06T05:36:00.000-07:002008-09-06T05:36:00.000-07:00What kev says is right...also i have to write stor...What kev says is right...also i have to write stories for a particular audience...you have to write things you dont really want to write sometimes becuase its the only things certain places will take.<BR/><BR/> Regardless, there are ways and i will succeed...and i still have my music...there is freedom in music.<BR/><BR/><BR/> The comment from that guy seemed kinda snooty too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21496172.post-2385087885053325442008-09-05T10:09:00.000-07:002008-09-05T10:09:00.000-07:00That should have been "and the complex play of emo...That should have been "and the complex play of emotions". Sometimes, my brain works faster than my fingers.<BR/><BR/>BTW, Gay. Now that my rant is over, I want to say how much I enjoyed reading your September musings. It brought back lots of memories for me, too. Thanks.K.C. Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10252103801230059784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21496172.post-8735625170853440992008-09-05T10:05:00.000-07:002008-09-05T10:05:00.000-07:00I am right there with you, Kevin.I got put down, i...I am right there with you, Kevin.<BR/><BR/>I got put down, in a back-hand, over-the-shoulder sort of way, in the EDF daily comments yesterday because I said I wasn't always sure where the story was in literary fiction.<BR/><BR/>I think the words that were used were "insular" and "two-dimensional reading."<BR/><BR/>I didn't bother to respond because there already was a donnybrook going on. I didn't bother to say that I appreciated the way the author used the language, and that I complex play of emotions being presented. I just didn't see a story there.<BR/><BR/>Maybe that's why I like genre writing so much. If you don't have a beginning, middle and end, if you don't show some sort of character development or deliver a punch at the end, it is really obvious that you blew it.<BR/><BR/>That's my ten cents.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and my poem, that Oonah, et.al., accepted for Every Day Poets, rhymes; so I guess I am beyond hope.K.C. Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10252103801230059784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21496172.post-73954748230847623392008-09-05T09:37:00.000-07:002008-09-05T09:37:00.000-07:00Two hours not smoking and you still write like a p...Two hours not smoking and you still write like a prince? Pretty damn good, Kev. Well said and duly noted. Decisions lead to success.Gay Deganihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03609404497703663916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21496172.post-58930697879461557962008-09-05T09:31:00.000-07:002008-09-05T09:31:00.000-07:00You know, lately I'm sick to death of literary mag...You know, lately I'm sick to death of literary magazines.<BR/><BR/>I used to aspire to wrap up all my thoughts into obscure, pretty words that drew upon the classics, the form, the intent, the fragility and diamond-strength of language structure--I wanted to say something real, and touching.<BR/><BR/>THEN I realized that I also want to make money while I do that. Since I'd rather spend my days writing than working for some asshole company, and I wasn't born into an idly wealthy family, I have to write things that make money. I can still be real and touching, but include EVERYONE who can read, not cater to a gob of intellectuals who wouldn't know life if it lived through them.<BR/><BR/>I realized that I like to tell stories that anyone can read. Not just someone who's attended the correct classes, schools, or writing workshops.<BR/><BR/>I can write literary fiction. It's just ridiculous to do it unless you don't give a whit about making a living. (Or garnering a public voice that is heard beyond universities, literary magazines and coffee shops.)<BR/><BR/>Literary writing is exclusive. <BR/><BR/>I aspire to be a best-selling author. That means my stories sell the best. It doesn't mean that they mean more or less than something about James Joyce's real meaning behind a bowl of oatmeal and a girl hanging upside down on a swing in that familiar, soft-focus, backyard where something wonderful hides something horrible, and everything means something more than is said, but you wouldn't understand unless you've studied Joyce at Emery with professor So-and-Such.<BR/><BR/>Pretention does not a story make.<BR/><BR/>That's my ten cents.<BR/><BR/>Remember, I'm at two hours and ten minutes of not smoking. I'm a little testy.<BR/><BR/>And I don't run some fancy-shmancy literary magazine.Kevin Shamelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04808837860481626400noreply@blogger.com