APRIL 2ND and Insecure Writers Support

 

“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”

― Giacomo Casanova

	Birthdate:2 April 1725

So?  You have decided to ride the Outlaw Trail of days with me, have you?

Come with me to 1927 and listen to a haunted tale from a stretch of the Badlands the Lakota still fear:

http://www.amazon.com/Her-Bones-Are-Badlands/dp/B00JEOI1BI/

We will have some fun, no?

Almost as much fun as this gringo had:


On April 2nd, 1725, Giacomo Cassanova was born, and erotic tall tales were never the same.


On this date in 1796, a forged Shakespeare play, VORTIGERN AND ROWENA, flops in London,

helping to expose its author, William Henry Ireland, as a fraud ... or a late April Fool's prankster.

Emile Zola, author of Nana, was born on this day in 1840: 

“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.” ― Émile Zola


Sadly, this date also contains irony and tears:

1917:

President Woodrow Wilson tells Congress "The world must be made safe for democracy." 

asking Congress for a declaration of war and to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I .

And American young men have been dying ever since making the world safe for democracy.

B stands for Bradbury -- Ray Bradbury,

whose loss I still feel.  SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES is one of my favorites of his.  What is your favorite Bradbury tale?

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury

Here is Ray Bradbury giving my insecure writers' support for this month: