An Ascending Path

Jan 30, 2016 07:37

I was just reading a new reader review over on Amazon, and basically what they said is that they liked my work because it made them feel good and hopeful. I'm extremely glad of that, because that's one of my purposes! Most of my books, original, co-authored and Stargate, follow the pattern of an ascending path. That's a form rarely used in ( Read more... )

stealing fire, writing, lost things, the lost

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tebasile7 January 30 2016, 23:20:49 UTC
Wow, thanks for spelling that out ( ... )

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jo_graham February 11 2016, 17:17:10 UTC
I'm so glad that makes sense!

This is the reason I generally don't like and don't read "literary fiction." The fashion today (and it is no more than a fashion of the elites) is for dark and hopeless narratives that only illustrate the dark side of the human condition. But there is light. There is hope. There are good people and they do overcome. Even when, like Charmian, they fail, they are not pitiful. To try and lose is a good and fine end. The failure is not to try.

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