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David Dennington
Hello Christopher, I will try and find this documentary and view it. I believe the Hinderberg's cover may have been highly flammable. Maybe that played out as part of the problem. One thing's for sure, - nothing is quite what it seems - as with today. Best David.
David Dennington
As an author, yes, I am careful not to damage the feelings of other authors. If I don't have something positive to say, I'd say nothing. I know what it takes to write and publish a book-hours of researching and soul searching. Hours of drafting, rewriting and editing. A nasty review is like a punch in the gut. As Hemingway said, 'Writing's easy' just sit in front of your typewriter and bleed'. Therefore, I do not post reviews of books below three stars normally. And let's face it, five stars is rather absurd in reality. It means the work is perfect. It puts you in the realm of Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky and other great writers, which would be unrealistic for mere mortals like me. I count myself lucky. I have not received too many nasty reviews. One in particular I think was meant to be just downright nasty. What's strange is when you get a review which is spiteful, and then another which is wonderful and they both give three stars! That's hard to figure out. Sometimes, you see reviews which look like they've been written by people who wished they could write and their reviews come across as bitter. This applies to the professionals I think, who sometimes slam top authors. One thing I have learned is this: everyone is different. Some may love your work, finding it arouses their imagination and curiosity, whereas others may find it dull. I think it's a good thing that authors get a wide range of reviews. When reading a big author's reviews, and they are all gushing, you know many are false. This is really noticeable with political books. They usually receive either five stars or one star reviews. It seems to me that armies of fake reviewers have been at work. One last thought that gives me solace is when I look at Hilary Mantel's reviews for Wolf Hall, many a just downright awful. But she won the Book Prize twice! Go figure...
David Dennington
Three Stories by Hemingway, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crosssing, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy,
The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jnr. Covid 19 and the Global Predators by Peter Breggin, Life Span by David Sinclair and Matthew Laplante, Collected Short Stories, Anton Chekhov, Summer of 42 by Herman Raucher, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, All Creatures Great and Small, In Our Time by Hemingway, Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, 1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jnr. Covid 19 and the Global Predators by Peter Breggin, Life Span by David Sinclair and Matthew Laplante, Collected Short Stories, Anton Chekhov, Summer of 42 by Herman Raucher, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, All Creatures Great and Small, In Our Time by Hemingway, Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, 1984, Animal Farm by George Orwell
David Dennington
By reading, watching films, researching and dreaming.
David Dennington
Getting lost in another world.
David Dennington
I am not sure yet. It hasn't happened, but i expect it will. I am mulling over starting my next book. The first one took five years to write and i never really got stuck. But i do dread it, for i know it happens to the best of them ... But now when i think about it, I am beginning to think it's already happening ... I'm procrastinating instead of writing! Learning about marketing has taken all my attention. Not sure I still know how.
David Dennington
Just do it! Join a workshop, a writer's school and or a group. Read books on writing, punctuation, grammar and self editing. Write about what you know. And read a lot.
David Dennington
I have another story already plotted and ready to write into a novel. It is currently in the form of a screenplay, which did well in the Austin Heart of Film Screenplay Competition some time ago. Some of the characters in that story have already appeared in The Airshipmen.
David Dennington
This story has been cooking in my mind since I was a teenager (that's a very long time!), after reading all Nevil Shute's novels and his life as an airship engineer on the monster R100 during the 1920's by day and as an aspiring young novelist by night. (He would later become the most popular author of his time with some novels made into films).
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