Dialogue is my favourite part of story writing. I love the advice here...and try to stick to it as much as possible. There's more to the "dangling conversation" than just coming right out and saying it.
You know the part that really amazes me about all of this? I have people like yourself, and a great many others, who read my work, who are educated and have held positions in Academia, while I never went past grade 12. I never thought when I was in the school library greedily sorting through Kipling's "Barrack Room Ballads and Departmental Ditties", and Tennyson's "Idylls Of The King", Wordsworth and Shelly, and Byron and Keats (lots of English writers up here in the Canadian school system), that I'd ever amount to anything more than a Blue Collar worker. I started writing stories for myself, never thinking I could publish them--because every time I tried, I was rejected. You just don't know how much hearing you say something like this makes a guy like me feel. I look at my list of Subscribers sometimes and shake my head in wonder, because I am actually being read.
You broke through the mental barriers. Seems like the point of school is to quash people's dreams, perhaps for most people. You followed your instinct and it was correct -- something to celebrate!
Dialogue is my favourite part of story writing. I love the advice here...and try to stick to it as much as possible. There's more to the "dangling conversation" than just coming right out and saying it.
Thank you so much. I had you partly in mind while writing it.
Me? I never thought I'd be considered for something like that. Thank you so much!
Yeah, keep going with it!
You know the part that really amazes me about all of this? I have people like yourself, and a great many others, who read my work, who are educated and have held positions in Academia, while I never went past grade 12. I never thought when I was in the school library greedily sorting through Kipling's "Barrack Room Ballads and Departmental Ditties", and Tennyson's "Idylls Of The King", Wordsworth and Shelly, and Byron and Keats (lots of English writers up here in the Canadian school system), that I'd ever amount to anything more than a Blue Collar worker. I started writing stories for myself, never thinking I could publish them--because every time I tried, I was rejected. You just don't know how much hearing you say something like this makes a guy like me feel. I look at my list of Subscribers sometimes and shake my head in wonder, because I am actually being read.
You broke through the mental barriers. Seems like the point of school is to quash people's dreams, perhaps for most people. You followed your instinct and it was correct -- something to celebrate!
And, oh so long ago!