tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post7088885255836315504..comments2023-01-08T13:48:58.890-08:00Comments on The Sound of Butterflies: The incredible growing and shrinking novel.Rachael Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07690377694600952816noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-68268201694857712852009-07-17T04:43:33.292-07:002009-07-17T04:43:33.292-07:00I'm a puter-inner - which sounds like somethin...I'm a puter-inner - which sounds like something you'd use playing golf - and an over-polisher - which sounds like something a female weta has for laying eggs. Getting to the point where I knew I couldn't go any further and simply had to stop was difficult but critical for me with book one. Thanks for the post and the link, Rachael.Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-88838408435592523422009-07-16T15:51:35.687-07:002009-07-16T15:51:35.687-07:00oh thank you for the Patchett link
this is part o...oh thank you for the Patchett link<br /><br />this is part of why it's taken me four years to finish half my novel,<br />the constant re-workings of each beautiful sentence to move closer toward capturing the essence of human life on the pageMaggie Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14699674732274478502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-77059586493121946632009-07-13T18:16:58.236-07:002009-07-13T18:16:58.236-07:00Hah! That's exactly how I'm feeling right ...Hah! That's exactly how I'm feeling right now about my novel - I'm glad it's universal. <br /><br />I too am a "hokey kokey" writer - I put things in and then I take them out, put them back in and shake it all about...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-65436600931910707822009-07-13T13:52:50.697-07:002009-07-13T13:52:50.697-07:00What a great article!
And is that a new profile p...What a great article!<br /><br />And is that a new profile picture? It's just beautiful!Andrea Eameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15304706719936895188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-75163614517182788732009-07-13T01:52:50.988-07:002009-07-13T01:52:50.988-07:00Well done Rachael!
I really love that quote from ...Well done Rachael!<br /><br />I really love that quote from Ann Patchett. It makes me feel a lot better about my novel sometimes not being exactly what I was hoping for. I'm going to put those words somewhere where I can refer to them often! <br /><br />:)green inkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10955967846673578879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-70450769217928009662009-07-11T21:19:19.127-07:002009-07-11T21:19:19.127-07:00I like that 'settling for what one is capable ...I like that 'settling for what one is capable of', it makes it tangible and real, where the 'novel in the head' is often just out of ones grasp...reminds me of that quote, " a thing is complete when one can let it be". So true, don't you think?<br /><br />like your new pic too, i was hoping they were butterflies in your hair...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-74961381496760862582009-07-11T20:42:17.237-07:002009-07-11T20:42:17.237-07:00Well done for getting it done, considering...
I&#...Well done for getting it done, considering...<br /><br />I'm definitely a sparse starter and a prolific adder onner (not real english I lknow, but we can be creative!) Anyway, this is precicely what's been preoccupying me lately, so it's good to read it from another writer's perspective.<br /><br />Jim, sounds like it needs a nap, good luck.Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-65170517284266730292009-07-11T19:11:26.929-07:002009-07-11T19:11:26.929-07:00And I console myself with the thought that if I we...And I console myself with the thought that if I were not able to at least imagine that perfect story - in all its light and movement and beauty - then I wouldn't have a chance of writing even the best story I can pull off. <br /><br />I know you are capable of pulling off something beautiful, powerful and compelling so I'm very much looking forward to reading this novel.Mariannehttp://www.zenpeacekeeping.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-21840707055752229632009-07-11T19:02:02.509-07:002009-07-11T19:02:02.509-07:00That link is great. I find it also translates to p...That link is great. I find it also translates to poetry. I have perfect poems in my head and then somewhere between head and paper the pen turns it into crap until I spend days or weeeks or years beating it with a rubber hose. Also my poetry MS has stayed about the same size for weeks now even though things are going in and out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16175404.post-51911723977950514012009-07-11T16:05:45.671-07:002009-07-11T16:05:45.671-07:00I think that was the one thing in her whole essay ...I think that was the one thing in her whole essay that struck me - "I will have to settle for what I am capable of pulling off."<br /><br />I have been fretting away over a book for about four years now. I should be doing a final polish about now (I'm not a fast writer) and yet I'm stuck with a gap in the middle and no idea how to get from one side to the other. I've been working on other things in the meantime but I'm seriously thinking of putting this one away for a few years and starting something new. And then maybe in ten or twenty years I'll know what to do with it.<br /><br />Oh, and for the record, I'm a putter-in. All I want to do at first is get to the end of the first draft as quickly as possible. Then the real fun is in the grafting on, paragraphs first then sentences and finally words.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com