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It's a little hokey, a little pokey, but the scenes are really effective when the writer hauls out of backstory mode.

Really great look at this amazing writer. Among many things I learned... the Gatsby cover art with the eyes came before T.J. Eckelberg... they inspired F.Scott to include the two watching eyes over the valley of ashes. And so much more. FSF really was a wreck.

Ahh -- finally got to the good stuff. The parks she describes are wonderful. I think my husband and I did our best to give our children time to explore, and dig, climb and follow streams.

This book is very informative, explanatory. I find that, as I read it and think about the novel I'm writing, I am generating ideas left and right. Flash is a problem-solver in and of itself, and it is very journalistic in its use of language.

I only just realized it's first person present tense, but the details are so lushly dealt out that I don't feel that sense of insecurity that often comes with present-tense narrative.

Fast read -- began glossing through chapters past the half-way mark, but should be a good chat at book club.

My book club's pick for June.

Ok, so we have a somewhat unreliable narrator leading a dull life, who has a chance to BE somebody by surviving a plague (depressing) who then is told (by abstract health-care people in haz-mat suits) that because she survived it, she is now to be feared. Not finding the protag appealing, but I'll plod through it.

Am taking a one-on-one flash course with Randall. As a writer who uses notecards as I think through plot, I needed that Quinn Dalton essay on 209. Flash reminds me of Pitman shorthand --- whereby it's not just the scribbles, but the depth of pressure applied to the pencil on the paper as well, that conveys meaning. I haven't thought of Pitman in years. It's a lot like headline and cutline writing. No redundancy.

Am taking a one-on-one flash course with Randall. As a writer who uses notecards as I think through plot, I needed that Quinn Dalton essay on 209. Flash reminds me of Pitman shorthand --- whereby it's not just the scribbles, the the depth of pressure applied to the pencil on the paper as well, that conveys meaning. I haven't thought of Pitman in years. It's a lot like headline and cutline writing. No redundancy.

Up to Ch 3 already. Will be taking a one-on-one flash course with Randall -- just cracking the first couple chapters in advance of first class. It brought back methods of the Pitman shorthand --- whereby it's not just the scribbles, the the depth of pressure applied to the pencil on the paper as well, that conveys meaning. I haven't thought of Pitman in years. It's also a lot like headline writing -- no conjuncti

OMG my book club moved up its meeting by one week. I have to read it by tomorrow!

Okay, it starts with a performance of King Lear, a play about the end of the world. Got my attention fast. Set up drives through the opening chapters. Good beginning. (edit begins) This show is worth the ticket. The language is rich, the needed information is doled out as needed and to tantalize. The weaving of a tabloid celebrity's, an orphan's, and a gypsy caravan's stories together is skillful.

Okay, it starts with a performance of King Lear, a play about the end of the world. Got my attention fast. Set up drives through the opening chapters. Good beginning.