Comments on: Write What You Know

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Thu, 17 Jun 2024 14:58:33 +0000

(shhhh…. I’m busy watching 168 episodes of 24 — seasons 1 thru 7 — on Netflix. Hoping for a re-run of the final season on Hulu this fall.)

By: Zo

Zo — Tue, 15 Jun 2024 01:04:54 +0000

Well guess who turned her on to it.

You don’t think she’d find these things without help, do ya?

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Wed, 09 Jun 2024 14:05:35 +0000

Yup. I’m watching it on Hulu. Came highly recommended by Kat.

By: Zo

Zo — Wed, 09 Jun 2024 04:49:56 +0000

Enjoying the hell out of “Justified” on FX Tuesday nights, or on the website. Based on “Fire In The Hole” by E.L.

Laconic don’t hardly say it.

By: Don Harvey

Don Harvey — Wed, 09 Jun 2024 02:52:30 +0000

Indeed!

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 08 Jun 2024 19:43:36 +0000

Even Hemingway could use a little pruning. Here’s my rewrite of “The Old Man and the Sea”:

“He caught a very big fish.” (Note: sometimes an adverb is crucial.)

Here’s a link to Twain’s “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses”.
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/rissetto/offense.html

It is a riot.

By: Don Harvey

Don Harvey — Tue, 08 Jun 2024 03:22:12 +0000

I’m certain you’ve read Twain’s “Letters from the Earth.” You must recall his hilarious dismemberment of the ponderous style of James Fenimore Cooper. A writer could do a lot worse than follow the simple rules laid out in that wonderful piece