On Writing
This year you write your novel--advice and encouragement from one with whom I've worked in the past.
Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Thanks, Steven!
ReplyDeleteDear Randy,
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, as always. Your words gave me, well, hope is not the right word, but perhaps "right-thought." They were a salutary reminder that if one wants to pay the price, if one really wants to do something, it often lies within one's means to make the choice to do it. Not always, and not without a certain amount of support and assistance--sometimes natural, sometimes supernatural.
Thank you.
shalom,
Steven
What a gem Randy's blog is! Thanks for introducing me to it, Steven!
ReplyDeleteDear Connie,
ReplyDeleteIt really is my pleasure. Everyone could benefit from reading Randy's blog--while it does have a "business" focus, the information there is of use to whomever requires a bit of organization in his or her life.
shalom,
Steven