FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Aug 11, 2006 · 11 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Fri, 11 August 2006 at 12:37 PM
Quote - Good questions. :)
I've written one play (for a college class).
Ah, I tried play writing - have acted (and produced once) in many plays over the years, been a green genie, a crabby old lady, a girlfreind, and an enchantress - evil of course! lol! I actually enjoyed being the crabby, interfeering old lady best - a very meaty part! But although I even went to classes about play-writing I never managed to get my head around it.
Quote - Hundreds of bad poems.
Hmmm, well I won't say either way, but some of my poetry I liked more than others.
Quote - A novella (for a college class). Dozens of short stories.
I think my novella was merely a short story that ran over... Lol! I've does a couple of shorts, with varying sucess - one was done for a competition. Oh, it didn't win... surprise surprise!
Quote - Two novels (desperately in need of editing).
Two completed? Wow! That's a lot of work even before the editing.
Quote - Those are all completed things. I have endless scraps of words here, there and everywhere.
Oh yeah, snap!
Quote - I like Shirley Jackson type stories...everything seems calm and normal on the surface, but something peculiar is going on behind the doors. I have read in the classics and science fiction (mostly when I was in college, but those are still my favorite.
Oh, I forgot to ask about reading preferences.
Not heard of Shirley Jackson before. What sort of classics do you mean? And what sort of sci-fi?
Quote - I think every story, no matter what genre, is improved by having some suspense. I prefer tightly written stories rather than ones that take ten pages to describe a sunrise. I love theater, but I am too verbose to write for the stage.
I agree about the tightly written, although I still love LotR.
I REALLY like the language of G. K. Chesterton, (and Tolkien) Kai Lung, and D. L. Sayers.
I love Terry Pratchett - but not all equally. Asimov, Heinlein, A.C. Clarke ... and more
Liked Jeremy Clarkson's "The World According To..."
and lots more. Don't much like biographies or non-fiction, except archaeology...
Surely one small paragraph is enough for any sunrise?
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)