I'm glad you could make it to the retreat again, but sorry I wasn't there to meet you in person after all this time! And it's great you feel back in the groove with your novel. Dumb question from an nf writer: are GMC charts more typically done just once for a whole book, or for each character? Was doing it for each scene the game changer for you, or doing it for each character?
Not dumb at all! Usually it's done once at the outset for the most important characters. And of course now that I've released this chapter, I'm thinking of so many ways to improve it. Such is life. I'd have loved to meet you in person! Your bundt pan and marathon are still waiting for you in Colorado should you choose to accept your mission ;).
A great article by Richard Wilbur helped me see the influence of Keats and Shelley in Robert Frost's poetry, and I returned to Keats last year sometime and memorized Ode to a Nightingale—such a rewarding one to have in heart. "Now more than ever seems it rich to die...." It's sad to me that there are no Nightingales in North America. A Mockingbird is no comfort, symbolic perhaps of the difference between England and its petulant ex-colonies.
I suppose its unlikely the Salamander is a Solomon. But that'd be my guess. Love your thoughts here. You should go to Bath.
It is called Poetry and Happiness; the relevant part is at the end, but the whole thing is excellent. A lot of Frost's poems seem to be in conversation with Romantic notions of transcending this physical world, and his response, aside from "Earth's the right place for love" is a lot of beautiful concrete imagery (cf. "Birches" and "After Apple-Picking"). I sent you the PDF.
I'm glad you could make it to the retreat again, but sorry I wasn't there to meet you in person after all this time! And it's great you feel back in the groove with your novel. Dumb question from an nf writer: are GMC charts more typically done just once for a whole book, or for each character? Was doing it for each scene the game changer for you, or doing it for each character?
Not dumb at all! Usually it's done once at the outset for the most important characters. And of course now that I've released this chapter, I'm thinking of so many ways to improve it. Such is life. I'd have loved to meet you in person! Your bundt pan and marathon are still waiting for you in Colorado should you choose to accept your mission ;).
A great article by Richard Wilbur helped me see the influence of Keats and Shelley in Robert Frost's poetry, and I returned to Keats last year sometime and memorized Ode to a Nightingale—such a rewarding one to have in heart. "Now more than ever seems it rich to die...." It's sad to me that there are no Nightingales in North America. A Mockingbird is no comfort, symbolic perhaps of the difference between England and its petulant ex-colonies.
I suppose its unlikely the Salamander is a Solomon. But that'd be my guess. Love your thoughts here. You should go to Bath.
I love Richard Wilbur! Can you share that article with me?
Thank you for being among my infinitely patient beta readers ;)
It is called Poetry and Happiness; the relevant part is at the end, but the whole thing is excellent. A lot of Frost's poems seem to be in conversation with Romantic notions of transcending this physical world, and his response, aside from "Earth's the right place for love" is a lot of beautiful concrete imagery (cf. "Birches" and "After Apple-Picking"). I sent you the PDF.