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So I made some new friends from the local Art Institute, and I found myself thinking that I should hire some of these kids to do jacket art if I want to e-publish. I just can't decide if that is a reason or just an excuse. Every bit of news I read about the world of publishing feels like another reason to go into e-publishing, but it's a brave new ( ... ) -
Hulk Must See
Wow, the Avengers was one of the best comic book-based movies ever made! I’m hard pressed to think of a better alien invasion movie, too. It was a stroke of genius, really, to give each of the characters previous movies to handle the character development, because this movie didn’t have time for that. What it did have was character expression in ( ... )Leave a comment ( 1 )
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I went to a lecture by Gerald Cupchik, a professor of psychology, who, despite spending way too much time relating tales of academic in-fighting, eventually got around to his interesting data on emotional reactions to art. For example, of all the scales by which we separate visual art, bright or dark colors, real or surreal, the strongest ( ... ) -
Big Bang Theory
I was watching Season one of “Big Bang Theory” and began to wonder if the dialogue between Penny and the guys is a parody of the Golden Age dialogue between the hero and his love interest or not just a funny coincidence. In the older, or just old fashioned, science fiction novels, beautiful women existed so the hero would be able to explain stuff ( ... ) -
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It occurred to me that the world’s morality would make a lot more sense if magic was real. That way you could tell a priest’s god (or a priestess’ goddess) by the spells they cast. And we wouldn’t have all this nonsense of good guys and bad guys within a culture worshiping the same gods and using the same holy books to back up their arguments. I’m ( ... )Leave a comment ( 1 )
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Sherwood Anderson quote
“And I am only writing all this to you to prepare you. In a world controlled by business why should we not expect businessmen to think first of business ( ... )Leave a comment ( 6 )
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Edith Wharton
I’ve been reading novels by Edith Wharton (whose stories all took place roughly a hundred years ago) and find the unusual endings alluring, no doubt because so far, in every novel, the ending is the opposite one would find in a novel written today with similar premises. In The Age of Innocence, the independent, forthright heroine loses her love ( ... ) -
Virginia Woolf quote
“The whole of her darkened and settled, as when some foil whose addition makes the round and solidity of a surface is added to it, and the shallow becomes deep and the near distant; and all is contained as water is contained by the sides of a well. So she was now darkened, stilled, and become, with the addition of this Orlando, what is called, ( ... ) -
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Recently at my TeacherPaul alter ego site I’ve been having my students read my novels in progress. What I’m getting is less critique and more reader response, which is useful in its own way. I’ve noticed that the most confident students are the ones who have responded first, which makes sense, of course. There is a lot of overlap between those ( ... ) -
"Misreading Jane Eyre"
I definitely suggest people read a book I found in the library, "Misreading Jane Eyre" by Jerome Beaty. It's all about what reading "Jane Eyre" was like for Bronte's contemporaries, based upon book reviews written at the time and comparing it to novels written before "JE" came out. Bronte played around a lot with the genre conventions of writers, ( ... )
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