From: bobthrollop@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 6:48:12 PM UTC-8, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   > On 16.12.18, Brian Pickrell   wrote:   
   > >> On 12/12/18 5:38 PM,    
   >    
   > >>> I took up one of my old story beginnings last week and started   
   > >>> working on it again, and I got bogged down about two pages in.   
   > >>> This time, I identified a problem in my style that I never noticed   
   > >>> before...   
   >    
   > > Thanks for the suggestions so far, although I'm not really asking for   
   > > advice here.   
   >    
   > Just thinking out loud too? :)   
   >    
   > I know talking about it can help, will comments be welcome, or would you     
   > rather not have replies?   
   >    
      
   Oh, it can't hurt.   
      
      
   What I have actually been doing, since the last posts, is reading Virginia   
   Woolf (Of course! you say--why didn't he think of that a long time ago?)    
   Posting here prompted me to check in on Patricia Wrede's blog, and she   
   mentioned Ursula K. Le Guin's _   
   Steering the Craft_ which gave an approving citation of a character study from   
   a Woolf novel, so I got a completely different one of her novels because it   
   was available at Half Price Books...Virginia Woolf has her strengths and   
   weaknesses, which may or    
   may not ever bear on anything I do.  At least her near-magical way of setting   
   a scene is less magical now that I'm starting to understand it.   
      
   A follow-on question to ask myself is:  why did I begin to care about the   
   style of authors like Woolf when I never did before?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)