I might even find this an excuse to make it to the weekly meeting of the congregation just to prise a few more anecdotes from you.
Here's one that I could have put in the chapter "Summer of 1962". I may have mentioned this at the weekly meeting but you haven't been there for a long time. When my sister, her boyfriend and I were staying with my childless aunt and uncle for the summer, my aunt said, "Frank, can you go to the store and pick up a fifth of milk?". They bought much more liquor than milk. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Aug 2, 2017 5:53 PM, "Steven A Smith" <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > It's interesting that you would have liked more anecdotes. I could have > made the book twice as long but I thought that would make it boring and I > was in a hurry for fear of becoming disabled before it was published. > Irrational, I know. > > Let's just say I was captivated, but I have a lot of natural > resonance/affinity for your subject (general place-time). > > I admit that it WAS a treat to be able to take it all in one long gulp > which was a close call.... I was done with my meal and on my 3rd ice-tea > and ready to pack it in when I realized the remainder of the pages weren't > all full (what with back-matter and all) and soldiered on to the end. > > I might even find this an excuse to make it to the weekly meeting of the > congregation just to prise a few more anecdotes from you. > > > Thanks too for the plan to pass the book along to your friend. > > I doubt it will inspire him to write his own but in it's own way is > equally interesting (at least to me!). > > Your point about authors being interested in reader feedback reminds me of > an open-ended conversation with our own Tim Taylor (aka Ramick) regarding > the role of "audience" in poetry/writing. > > In my own experience the timesqew for regularly published writers seems to > cause them some annoyance with fans. Unless they are on a riff of a 10 > part Trilogy by the time I have read one of their works, it is likely they > were done with it's creation years before... at best they were bouncing > back and forth with Editor/Publisher for a year or more from their final > draft and their final draft might have been a year or more past a "pretty > good draft" and are NOW well into their next novel (or next dozenth short > piece) so discussing the characters/setting/conceit of their LAST work (or > something from a decade past) seems to be at least a mild annoyance to them. > > I have always been fascinated with Scientific/Technical people who became > fiction authors, whether they write tech/sci fiction or not. One of my > favorites is Robert Forward, and LANL has it's own contemporary Ian > Tregellis > <http://www.lanl.gov/careers/stories/spotlight/ian-tregillis.php> to > offer up in that category. > > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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