The Inkspiller

@edmund-lloyd-fletcher, I’m no expert in first-person (I likewise generally detest it), but I’ll give it a shot.

So, as you astutely observed, first-person by its very nature violates the rule of “show don’t tell.” However, it’s important to remember why that rule exists and what it primarily refers to – that is, things that we can’t literally see…[Read more]

@esther-sears Heck yeah! At the very least I would be interested to see what it looks like.

@Esther-sears

It was, in a word, fun. 🙂

I really enjoyed it for all of its silliness – and especially the tragicomic realization by Lucas that he’s not the chosen one. It was so enjoyable I kind of actually want to see the theoretical rest of this story that this would have been excerpted from (unless this is actually an excerpt (parody?) from…[Read more]

@kristianne-hassman, Thank you!
(Even though I can’t help but fret over the typo in the middle where I meant to say, “the French have always got [received] a peculiar status as the cultural center of Europe ever since the fall of Rome.”)

It mostly came down to a lot of practice and reading; as I mentioned, Steinbeck was absolutely fundamental to…[Read more]

1. One way (that’s a little meta) is to give her (and her family) all the smart sounding lines – the pithy sayings, the most put together sentences. Not necessarily the most impactful ones or the deepest ones, but the ones which sound good. Trying out different lines out loud may help in getting the kind of imagined intonation down (coupled with t…[Read more]

@sageinthemeadow,

Thank you for writing that. Words will fail me in expressing my thanks I’m sure, but thank you nonetheless.

In your second paragraph, I was reminded of Christ in Gethsemane – both in Matthew 26 and in the poem by Boris Pasternak regarding the same. I’ve long been told that God knows what it’s like to be human, not just because…[Read more]

@daeus-lamb Done.

Alrighty. @daeus-lamb. I’ll set an alarm to remind me. How is this going to go down, by the way? The meet and pray that is.

@daeus-lamb

Any time, honestly. Not exactly going places at the moment.

@daeus-lamb

I would appreciate that.

I understand my reply is late in coming and I’d hate to be a burden on your time. At the moment, I feel somewhat better, I guess, though whether it is God’s grace of answered prayers or myself just cutting off my emotions, I’m still uncertain. But I still don’t know what to do with myself here and now. I…[Read more]