A Writing Meme of Sorts

[anghara]

A Writing Meme from Dave Moles (you can read his blog here - Ten Things I Don't Know About Writing.

Go read, but in the interests of being helpful, here's what the original Moles Ten Things were:

1. How to describe with all five senses

Comments

[melissajm]

That was thought-provolking. (So much so that I "stole" it. ;)) Thanks!

[zornhau]

6. Sex scenes

If there's no overt or inner conflict, it's just a procedure and there's no scene. Your instincts are right.

[dichroic]

Happy = content
That's where I disagree. I'd judge, from what little I know, that *you* are happy with your life, for example, yet I certainly don't think you're content and with no problems. And OK, you're not writing books about your life .... but you did, once, and if Letters from the Fire had been less fictionalized and had had the happy ending your real life romance did, it still would have been a reasonable book. A different book, certainly, and also a different kind of book, not the kind you write. But still quite possibly worth reading, because there still would have been problems to overcome just in the differences of attitude, background, geography and age.

[anghara]

Yes, I'm happy with my life - but NOBODY is ever completely happy. Writing about my everyday life would REALLY bore everyone to tears. My major problem right now is a shoulder that goes out of whack every so often and then I have to spend three or four days in pain and mollycoddling it - but that's hardly the stuff of great literature. Of my own life, the part where something could have been written about would have been the couple of months that began, as it happens, with THIS day four years ago - when rdeck had his stroke, and my life crumbled around me, however briefly

[kinzel]

Seems to me:

So, you're happy to have reached the top of Mount Everest. Is your work done?

[anghara]

Always another mountain, eh...? [grin]