tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post8261454462376816542..comments2024-03-29T03:28:22.296-05:00Comments on Writing In The Crosshairs: THE DISTORTING MIRRORRoland D. Yeomanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-70166021230309306382014-08-23T22:58:46.270-05:002014-08-23T22:58:46.270-05:00Morgan:
Thanks for checking in on me. I'm back...Morgan:<br />Thanks for checking in on me. I'm back to work after surgery, and doing solo duty this weekend. Whew! Had to take a nap and just woke up. Thanks for the compliment! Man, I am still so weak!<br /><br />D.G.:<br />See? We are much alike. I like to think that somehow we will pull ourselves out of the mire we are currently in, but history proves different. :-(<br /><br />Elephant's Child:<br />Like you I like many genres. I like best those novels that blend two or more genres so that the literary horizon is expanded! :-)<br /><br />And humor is a must for the enjoyment of the novels I read. No dour Russian tales without light or hope or laughter!<br /><br />Hilary:<br />You think along the lines of what John Steinbeck felt as he matured. See? You're in great company!!<br /><br />Alex:<br />Fiction that is like real life is called literary ... and usually boring! :-)<br /><br />I agree that the best fantasy has the innocence of childhood to it, although many fantasies have turned dark of late! Brrr.<br /><br />Science fiction lets us dream of far horizons where most anything exotic and wondrous can occur. Who wouldn't like tales such as those? :-)<br /><br />Thanks to all of you for commenting while I was driving blood runs!Roland D. Yeomanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338410857990551352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-46602085356110417812014-08-23T10:48:00.969-05:002014-08-23T10:48:00.969-05:00If we wrote real life, people would call it unreal...If we wrote real life, people would call it unrealistic.<br />I began reading fantasy with science fiction fast on its heels. I originally like the pureness and nobility of fantasy, the hero on the quest and good triumphing over evil. With science fiction, I liked going to a place we will likely never travel, the adventure of it all, and the worlds and creations beyond what we can imagine.<br />Does my writing merge all that together? I'm not sure...Alex J. Cavanaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09770065693345181702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-42446345188514840242014-08-23T02:29:52.551-05:002014-08-23T02:29:52.551-05:00Hi Roland - love the idea of the hospital on stilt...Hi Roland - love the idea of the hospital on stilts - it makes a great deal of sense.<br /><br />My reading and interests have changed so dramatically since I was a kid ... as I really educate myself ... through my blog, but also via others' blogs and interesting articles or books on life ... <br /><br />Our brain is an amazing organ that has absorbed and evolved over time .. we don't know how much we know and is intuitive as it's part of that evolutionary spirit - it has its own history ... as too nature, and as the millennia of life on earth tick by ... <br /><br />Such an interesting post .. and I too hope you are feeling easier ... with thoughts - HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-69500147349932773152014-08-23T00:57:36.348-05:002014-08-23T00:57:36.348-05:00Fiction does indeed have to make sense, or feel as...Fiction does indeed have to make sense, or feel as if it does.<br />I read from many genres and like best fiction which doesn't cement itself to any one label. Crime sits very comfortably with fantasy, with science, with romance. History/mythology make fine building blocks and humour provides some necessary colour.Elephant's Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650565833097914052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-33979389121774463682014-08-22T23:35:53.680-05:002014-08-22T23:35:53.680-05:00I used to haunt the library too, by choice, and I ...I used to haunt the library too, by choice, and I read tales of the unexplained, and other titles that were about what we don't know. Some mythology was in there, but I wanted to know 'Why' about many things. I also read comics which opened my mind to things we can pretend are real. (super heroes)<br /><br />Today I write science fiction, suspense and alternate history stories (fiction based on facts of a particular time)My fave to write is scifi. I dream of better civilizations and a higher level of intellect.<br /><br />A hospital on stilts is not unusual in a boggy or marshy type of land. Still, it would be interesting to see.D.G. Hudsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213237734772028645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8681132888977525688.post-50503977189831778942014-08-22T22:53:06.316-05:002014-08-22T22:53:06.316-05:00I LOVE the comment about how unlike real life, fic...I LOVE the comment about how unlike real life, fiction has to make sense… haha. That was PERFECT. :) <br /><br />And I've told you before, but Roland, you are SO unique. :)<br /><br />And you've been in my thoughts again--I hope you're ok? Thinking about you and everything that you're dealing with. :( Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15747144518868320969noreply@blogger.com