Comments | anaross: Taking down My Life Closed Twice

anaross

Taking down My Life Closed Twice

Jan 03, 2016 20:24

I just want to give notice that I'll be taking down the My Life novel hoping to make something "original" out of it. (50 Shades of Spike! I'm going to do it in a week, so if you want to save it, you can still download it till then ( Read more... )

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spikereader January 4 2016, 16:47:35 UTC

Thanks for the heads up re the taking down (though I do already have the story saved as it's one of my top five fics and one I'd hate to be without).

I hope the rewrite into an original story is going well, and I look forward to reading about Jake, Sunny and Murph - so another heads up when it's available to purchase would be much appreciated.

anaross January 4 2016, 16:49:30 UTC

Will do! I'm finding the hardest part is getting the backstory right-- how Sunny and Jake know each other, whether he's a vampire, how Murph comes into the picture.

herself_nyc January 4 2016, 17:34:32 UTC

It's a wonderful idea, so glad you're doing it.

anaross January 4 2016, 20:23:59 UTC

I'll have to see how it works!

ayinhara January 4 2016, 19:00:12 UTC

Thanks for the heads up. I downloaded the story. Good luck in your endeavor to transform it to original fic.

anaross January 4 2016, 20:31:54 UTC

I will report back! I know I'll already have trouble with "Murph," my Angel character-- he's so very distinctive, and understanding him relies so much on understanding his past.

_jems_ January 4 2016, 23:51:56 UTC

Totally saved it! Thanks for the heads up.

your poetry analysis anonymous April 1 2016, 02:33:08 UTC

I was wondering if you could tell me where you got the analyses for your poems. I love the story and the analysis of each poem is interesting.

If you could point me in the right direction, that would be great.

Mary
mmexis@yahoo.com

Re: your poetry analysis anaross April 1 2016, 04:09:33 UTC

IT was actually my own analysis. I taught most of those poems in classes I taught. But you know, there was recently a book about the Frost poem (The Road Not Taken) with the very same point, that the poem has to be viewed as a post-experience justification, not a recommendation!

Anyway, I chose the poems pretty much based on the ones I liked and taught when I was teaching lit in college. Also, I've been in a poetry reading group for years, and we bring classic poems and analyze them.

I love to READ poetry, but I can't write it! Do you write poetry? I just find it so hard.

RE: Re: your poetry analysis oliviine May 13 2016, 08:41:29 UTC

Congratulations - I'm sure your rewrite will be wonderful. 'My Life Closed Twice' is a story which has stuck with me for years, your writing is very memorable ( ... )

Re: Re: your poetry analysis anaross May 13 2016, 15:50:30 UTC

Thanks!
The book Buffy had -- I think it was one I had called 500 Most Anthologized Poems, but I couldn't find it on Amazon-- found this instead, but it's not the same book.
http://www.amazon.com/Top-500-Poems-William-Harmon/dp/023108028X

I probably have the name wrong. In school, we always used Norton Anthologies, but they tend to be more narrow-- Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Norton Anthology of 19th Century Poetry-- so they're not as good just for browsing.

I;ll have to check out that poetry app! I also subscribe to a Youtube channel where a man with a sonorous voice recites many of the poems I love. I can't recite or read aloud either, so I appreciate hearing a good reader.

And I LOVE Susan Howatch. Her multiple-first person POV books actually inspired several books of mine-- including Long Day's Journey. GMTA!