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Archive for March, 2008
Quote of the Day
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions. It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus recreate some object that they actually see. But the world of the fiction writer is full of matter, and this is what the beginning fiction writers are very loath to create. They are concerned with unfleshed ideas and emotions. They are apt to be reformers and to want to write because they are possessed not by a story but by the bare bones of some abstract notion.”
— Flannery O'Connor from "The Nature and Aim of Fiction"
Recent Entries
- NewPages.com
- Trinity Arts Conference 2008
- new police/investigation blog
- Catholic writer Eric Scheske
- 2008 Forensic Science and Law Symposium
- Festival of Faith & Writing 2008
- fiction webring
- Scriptalpalooza screenwriting competition
- Writers Weekly 24-hour Short Story Contest
- Joseph Conrad’s Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897)
Now Reading
Planned books:
None
Current books:
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The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O\’Connor
Recent books:
None