Linkage….
:: Every day I read things that suggest that our left-wing friends are trying to stamp out manliness. Just after 9/11, there was something of a resurgence of masculinity, of the traditions of manliness. (Two different takes on the shootings of the other day…needless to say, I find SDB’s take rather, shall we say, odd. I’m on the left, and I have absolutely zero idea what he’s on about. I’m almost reminded of a certain laughable blog post from back in the day by a guy named Kim DuToit….)
(By the way, it suddenly seems to me that any attempt to enumerate a list of qualities that are shared by ‘real men’ is a sign of a bad way of thinking about things.)
:: Writing a book ain’t all fun and games, kids. Writing fiction isn’t any easier than writing non-fiction, and vice versa. Both forms can be stubborn and maddening and offer a whole lot of seemingly insurmountable challenges–just of a wholly different sort. But the mountain itself is climbed, I’ve reached the peak. (Having reached one peak already, I’m now aware of the mists dispersing…to reveal another peak. Sigh!)
:: I am a sucker when modern characters are re-imagined into old style projects. (Me too…these are really cool!)
:: I’m kind of like Monk. Very anal. I have my writing space and I never write anywhere else. I have my stuff all carefully arranged, and I don’t like it if something gets moved. I have several recourses that I can turn to when I am stumped or bothered about a piece of writing to remove the so-called block. I always write in silence. No sounds, no music, no interruptions. This is all weird, but it beats lying in a coffin! (Patrick Rothfuss and Terry Brooks have been interviewing each other, and posting the results back and forth on each other’s blogs. Cool stuff, from a ‘peeling back the writerly curtain’ standpoint. Follow the links from Rothfuss’s blog back to the previous three parts.)
I’m a fan of cursing. Not just your standard, four-letter scatological words, crude words spoken without thought, words used by the drunken, the lazy, or the uninspired.
Why limit yourself to four letters? (Why indeed!)
More next week….
Regarding left-wing efforts to "stamp out manliness," this must be something like that infamous "gay agenda" I keep hearing about, which no one on the left has ever actually seen. I completely missed the memo on the "down with manly men" campaign. But then I suppose I'm not manly enough to have been privy to such information.