the Magic Mountain is a mighty work of literature that took Thomas Mann 12 years to write. Mighty in length and content.
Category: Writing
My writing
How my protagonists sabotaged novel # 2
Then I turned totally Pollyanna. The main characters got together over supper and a few glasses of wine and had a heart-to-heart – a pox on them! This is not chummy chummy United Nations here guys, let`s have some authentic conflict.
Emerging from audio book production
Audio book production wrapping up. Thinking of other word and creative productions.
So many ways to be a pilgrim
Be warned! When you set out on a pilgrimage, it will change your life henceforth. You will be a pilgrim for ever.
Book Money – straight talk
As I get excited about the few hundred I get from book sales, I keep in a separate part of my brain the cost to get the book up and published which is in the thousands.
Read, read
I just marvel at Susan Orlean’s sense of observation and then her skill in translating that into words in her book The Orchid Thief. Her subject matter was rich material: the orchids, the obsessed crazy people, the lush jungle and the barren subdivisions of Florida, but wow, did she ever nail it!
Is the goal the way?
So, was writing the book the achievement rather than the book in my hand or on my e-reader? Does getting to Santiago as the destination of the Camino overshadow all the kilometres and walking and the heart and effort that went into it?
A hardcover deep dive
The joy of hankering down for a good old book read. I am doing that now with Amor Towles book A Gentleman in Moscow.
Mama‘s been a code’n
The novel, Pardon my Camino has so much: The Camino trail of course and all that is involved with backpacks, hostels and blisters plus plus, there are family and couple dynamics and a big financial hiccup, there are adventures, friends and friendship, spirituality, history, a gay romantic sub-plot, church, sex, food and wine, all woven around the themes of truth and forgiveness.
The Bounce
Apart from the ill thing, my Covid time has been very useful productive time I have focused and done a great leap forward on THE BOOK. I now await the proof copy of Pardon My Camino to arrive. That is for the paperback edition.