As I projected when I began this project, this Blog would have a finite life. It was a project originally designed to be a dialogue between two writers about the craft of the writer Jacob M. Appel. My partner referred to himself as the FIRE MAN. He did manage to collaborate through the first three stories of EINSTEIN'S BEACH HOUSE, a collection that, as you know by now, has eight stories.
The objective was to obtain some ideas about the craft of writing and story telling through discussion of our observations about the text, and examining techniques for narrating action and using dialogue to develop characters and plot, if there is a plot.
As in most things, what hasn't been noted in entries, are observations that exist, at deep levels, from the reading that don't get articulated, but still inform our perception perhaps at a subliminal level. Those kinds of observations usually don't surface in projects like this. But sometime later, maybe even years, they may surface in our own work. We may or may not connect such occurrences with past research.
Writing/Reading can be a circular process that generates its own energy. It can ripple across the imagination when you least expect it.
I
regret that FIRE MAN chose not to participate. If for some reason, he
comes to the party belatedly, I would so happy to interact with his
observations.
If you are reading this entry, which is the most recent effort, it represents a culmination of the blog. If you want to follow the history of the entries, you need to go back in time to February 9th, and move forward (or up) the entry dates. This will align the blogs with the order of the stories in EINSTEIN'S BEACH HOUSE.
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