Tuesday, November 30, 2010

OS Welcome--We're Old But We're Mostly Literate

Red Stocking Grandma--Thanks for the Open Call!
 My first draft was lost to a power failure, so I'll be brief.  I was looking for a place to write about books and reading. 
Facebook wasn't it.  I don't have the patience or intensity a blog with readers takes. 
I have read a lot of books and I know something about how books appear on the shelves of bookstores and in libraries.   I'd like to encourage people to try some writers--many of whom are dead.
I've learned a lot about Children's Literature--and I'd like to leave it lying around somewhere it might be useful.
 I like reading on Open Salon.  Some stuff is funny, really funny.  Some stuff is hard to read.  Some stuff makes no sense.
My Advice to newer members:
1.  Write about stuff you know about.  Give us a unique point of view on the issues of the day.  Don't write what anyone can write.  Tell us what you learned in your life.  Tell us how hard it is to learn some lessons.
2.  Photoshop is a lot of fun.
3.  Old recipe cards--who knew that they could be entertaining?
 4.  Be Nice or Leave!



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If only I had seen this 2 months ago...but I believe I appreciate the statement, and understand it, far more than I would have at that point. Rated for being wise, and also for not throwing you computer across the room when you lost your post the first time!
Thanks. Lately, the internet sees me coming and promptly dies. At home, at work.
Amen to all of this (and especially #4).
And thanks to you and your literary enthusiasm, I took Wodehouse's "The Code of the Woosters" out of the library today. See, you've already had an impact!
Write about stuff you know about. Give us a unique point of view on the issues of the day. Don't write what anyone can write. Tell us what you learned in your life. Tell us how hard it is to learn some lessons.

That would be an excellent push for those with writer's block.
Glad to see a fellow book lover posting about books (esp. children's books!). Write what you know, and as Annie Proulx (among others) says, know what you write.
Thanks. I think you'll like Code of the Woosters! He just turns out these incredible sentences again and again. It's like Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare had a baby who was brought up by Jack Benny--and then time-travelled a LOT.

Devon -- Thanks! I had writer's block for many many years.

Lucy! Children's books are so wonderful--not every one, but at least a few hundred!

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