tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post6711382449518750155..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Not everything we write is wonderful - Jo CarrollKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-38680716527948152972014-09-25T19:21:11.717+01:002014-09-25T19:21:11.717+01:00I think passion, excitement, knowledge and skill i...I think passion, excitement, knowledge and skill is always interesting so long as it is skilfully conveyed. These things are always relevant to my life no matter what the object. I think it is the conveyance that gains my interest or doesn't.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17519454925239061308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-50530460783042980292014-09-25T07:59:23.443+01:002014-09-25T07:59:23.443+01:00Thank you all. I was AWOL yesterday, so not able t...Thank you all. I was AWOL yesterday, so not able to foster this post. And glad I'm not the only one to drool over the Guinness!JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-80321498294192639882014-09-24T16:07:58.797+01:002014-09-24T16:07:58.797+01:00Oh yes, the Guinness ... and the Irish coffee ...Oh yes, the Guinness ... and the Irish coffee ...madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-3336187211077557032014-09-24T14:50:05.062+01:002014-09-24T14:50:05.062+01:00beautiful writing is important to me as reader and...beautiful writing is important to me as reader and writer but not if it's just a mass of words describing every breath and twitch and sip of coffee. it's about pruning down the the minimum beautiful writing to move the story on and have the effect you want. Otherwise it's beautiful padding. But they say as a writer you have to murder your darlings! I'd not really thought of travel writing as memoir writing before, though of course on reflection it is. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-74666057241692647292014-09-24T12:22:06.302+01:002014-09-24T12:22:06.302+01:00Just about nothing I write or think is of any inte...Just about nothing I write or think is of any interest to anyone (including, possibly this) so I'll just take the opportunity to say that today is S.R.Crockett's 155th birthday and The Galloway Raiders are celebrating with special offers and free ebook. What he wrote was interesting enough 100 odd years ago to sell out over 10,000 copies in a day... now? Anyone interested? Go to www.gallowayraiders.co.uk if you are. CallyPhillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481379296340077102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-23391351042060999682014-09-24T09:57:25.243+01:002014-09-24T09:57:25.243+01:00Absolutely. I worry that I'm now writing (beau...Absolutely. I worry that I'm now writing (beautifully, of course!)a blog of supreme interest to me but of which everyone else will say 'So what? Who cares?' Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-46900662772489533562014-09-24T09:42:20.999+01:002014-09-24T09:42:20.999+01:00Ironically, Jo, that's a feeling I have quite ...Ironically, Jo, that's a feeling I have quite often when I'm blogging. At least with fiction we're writing (in theory, at least) about people who are outsiders to us as well as to readers, but when the first person of the narrative is actually me, the 'who cares?' sensation is familiar.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.com