Wednesday; "Gone With The Wind"...

[ozarque]

I just want to mention something here, in case you're not already aware of it. I want to mention the extraordinary craftsmanship that's demonstrated by Margaret Mitchell in Gone With The Wind. The density of it, and the way everything in it is woven together; the immediacy of it. It's truly remarkable, and I wish I could write that way. It's

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"Gone With The Wind"...

[ozarque]

I apologize for all that bright black type in the post; for some reason, I wasn't able to get rid of it.

Re: "Gone With The Wind"...

[archangelbeth]

If you want to take a stab -- it's the tag at the end of "Gone with the Wind" -- it's just got a / in the angle-brackets, and needs to have a "b" after the /, and it'll be all better.

[feetnotes]

in the midst of even the most momentous occasions in tumultuous times, the greater part of the world around the main characters of the story are getting on with "life as usual" as best they can; and, unless enfolded into an all-encompassing society, such as the regular army, so are the protagonist(s) and antagonist(s) interacting with this of necessity, else they will most likely not survive.

providing a "life as usual" that is convincing and compelling reading, even whilst events - and quite possibly your major characters - are busy disturbing, upsetting or even destroying this, is a major task for the fantasy, sf & historical novelist.

re-read the novels you rate for their authors' skills in doing this without making info-dumps of an atmosphere-destroying impact; how have they achieved it?

steal the techniques, where appropriate, and modify them to perfect them to your porpoises.

[basketcaselady]

YOu've been quiet for a long time. I hope all is well with you and your husband!

[amaebi]

Yes, while I don't want to intrude or pry, I'm concerned at your long silence.

Wishing you well, always.

[apel]

I'm wondering too and hoping all is well.

[ext_629739]

I've been worried too. Even picked up a bear charm to send her, called a couple-three times.

If anyone has news, I'd appreciate it. I revere Suzette as a semi-patron saint.

The silence

[ext_368316]

Please add me to the list of those concerned about your silence, hoping fervently that you and your family are well and happy.

Re: The silence

[unmutual]

Likewise.

Had a bear totem delivered to Suzette

[ext_629739]

She has embraced various bear totems, so I had one sent to her. Delayed as my debit card thought the purchase was fraudulent (why was I sending jewelry to a strange address), but sent now.

No one answers the telephone number I have for her new address, the old was was disconnected instead of transferred.

I will post if I hear anything back. Has anyone bought anything at her on-line art store? I'll try that next as there were a couple more items I wanted to go with the two in the living room.

Re: Had a bear totem delivered to Suzette

[ext_629739]

sfwa org does not show her current e-mail address. bysuzettehadenelgin com did not work for me. If anyone else has news, I'd appreciate it.

Re: Had a bear totem delivered to Suzette

[ext_629739]

Though I did find on Amazon that she did a book on Macbeth in 2007 ...

And ran into someone who stated:

She wrote a fairly decent textbook in Linguistics with John Grinder (before Grinder did too much acid and hooked up with Bandler to start the NLP cult after which he was known as the "Swindler" of "Bandit and Swindler")

Anyway, "Native Tongue" was one of the very few books about linguistics written by someone who knew anything about linguistics. We all read it back in the day. So she had a bit of a fan club among UC Santa Cruz linguistics student (where Grinder had prior to going round the bend).