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@emma-flournoy Thanks for catching all those mistakes…I’ll get around to fixing them next time I get into my editor. 🙂
@kate-flournoy Glad you enjoyed it. I really enjoyed writing this one. It just came…I’ve been doing my own headscratching over here. Sure, I’ve heard of “show, don’t tell”, but that was always in connection with film/screenplays/etc. Never in short story or novel writing. I went back and I re-read it a little more carefully than I have in a while (and I confess to seeing the POV shifts in a light I had not previously seen them) and I’m still scratching my head a bit. If it’s not too much trouble, would you mind pasting an actual example of how I told, rather than showed. If you critique it, due to the way my brain works, could you do that in a separate paragraph? I’m trying to better see what you’re getting at.
@kate-flournoy Hmm. I just tried it and it opened just fine, but here it is again http://storiesbyracheal.weebly.com/leviathan.html 🙂
@gretald The two historical fiction books I’ve read by Sir A.C. Doyle were “The White Company” and “Sir Nigel”. “Sir Nigel” is actually first (they are a series), but was written second. I read them one right after another and I could see that, but it didn’t bother me much. 🙂 I actually don’t know if he wrote any others.
@hope Thanks! 😀
@rebelutoinary Hmmm…flcsagr(at)mailaka(dot)net. I replaced the @ and the . with the written words because supposedly it’s a spam-protection measure. Wonder why it’s not working? (And I am not your resident tech support. 😉 Unfortunately, I’m not as savvy as I might like to be…)@rebelutoinary Oops. I really was off the beam. I got a couple of the letters mixed up! The first part is flcsagr. Sorry about that. :}
@gretald Well, I really like O. Henry’s short stories. And I guess I’m rather partial to classic fairytales or similar stories–as might be evidenced by the fact that a good number of my own short stories (which really aren’t that many) are fairytale-esque. One of my favorite things to do with them is try to keep the same basic plot, but remove the “fantasy” from it. Not that I am completely against using fay-creatures and magic in a story, but it’s fun to try to get rid of it as a crutch. 😉@rebelutoinary
I didn’t think you were insulting Florida! I just got to thinking how I’ve heard people say that Florida isn’t “The South” and well, stuff fell off the ends of my finger-tips. 😉 Neat that you’re a native–even though you’re no longer there…(lived in Arizona for about two years. Fort Huachuca was my dad’s last duty-station before retiring.) The “home place” is DeSoto County. My married sister lives around the Tampa/St. Pete/Clearwater area. The rest of us are actually in Indiana currently. Long story…Okay, the email…I didn’t see a private message option, so here goes: flcasgr(at)mailaka(dot)net
Sorry if this is disjointed tonight. It’s been a bit of a rough day…and I can’t say that my brain has been functioning overly well.
@sarah-h Showell Styles was a Welsh author. I’ve not read any of his other books outside of the Quinn series, but if they are as full of adventure and humour as those, I’m sure they’d be enjoyable to read.
I have dreams of writing edge of your seat WWII screenplays…I’ll read something and file it away for “someday”. (Speaking of which, any other folks on here who dabble or seriously write screenplays?) WWII is near and dear to my heart, partly because my Grandpa was a WWII vet…
@rolena-hatfield I haven’t written down, as such, a great deal of what I know, but I have loads of it piled away in my head. We also have one of those on the computer genealogy programs with a lot of information on it too. I have a story idea that is basically a fictionalized account of my Parker’s. I think it would be fun to write and even more excuse to do more Florida history research… 🙂
My Parker’s, as far back as we’ve managed to trace them, came from North Carolina (which I find somehow satisfying since I was born in North Carolina), though probably before that they were in Virginia. (I’m talking 1700’s here.) It is always so exciting to find a new fact…even for other people. 😀 (I occasionally get to running down other’s genealogy.)
@gretald Maybe I need to ask how to pronounce that. 🙂 Favorite books? Off the top of my head, a couple of those would be “Little Women”, the entire “Anne of Green Gables” series, “The Black Arrow” by R.L. Stevenson, and “The Red Keep” by Allen French. I do better with “Favorite Genre” or author: historical fiction and mysteries…and a number of favorite authors ranging from Alcott to G.A. Henty to Agatha Christie to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (by the way, were you aware that other than Sherlock Holmes, he wrote a couple of historical fiction books?)
@rebelutoinary Hi, Sarah! We found out about the Lyme first–only been seriously looking at mold for a good hunk of this year. One of the things currently in-progess with us is trying make our living area more healthy (I cannot wait to get the carpets out of my room!!) We live in the middle of farmland so we get all the outdoor, agriculture farm molds as well as the chemicals. There is no option of moving either since we a) take care of my grandma (it’s her property) and b) it’s my mother’s inheritance.
Oh yes! I can relate to the long-story bit (amongst other things). Do you ever get tired of explaining to other people that you’re sick? I sure do.
I confess that I don’t much like using the phone…I do have Skype, though. I really tend to lean the most towards email, so if you’d like my email address, I’d give it to you. 🙂 (I don’t know if my brain glitchy word-block has anything to do with it…)“Oh yes I am a Southern girl, and glory in the name…” Heh. Song lyrics like to do that sometimes…
Being an Army brat I’m not exactly from any particular state, though I claim Florida since both my parents are natives (amongst other reasons). I was born at Ft. Bragg, NC and have lived most of the rest of my life in various southern states. We currently reside in the mid-west. It’s different in many respects and I DO miss the grand ol’ live oaks and Spanish moss–and the Northern Mockingbirds. And my cows…but that’s a whole ‘nother long story (of which Lyme is a part, but not the focus). But yes, Southern by birth, heritage, and choice (meaning I’m a grayback 😉 ). That too is part of who I am…strongly. (Just visit my bedroom and you’ll see both 50-star US flags and a couple of Confederate flags scattered about–and roughly half my book shelf is Civil War books–most of which I, sadly, have yet to read.) [And by the way, just in case someone decides to tell you that Florida ain’t really Southern, try tellin’ us that. Florida was actually the third state to secede from the Union on January 10, 1861-the day after Georgia. We also, in ratio, provided the most men to the Confederate war effort. Of the 16,000 white males listed on the 1860 census, 15,000 enlisted in the Confederate forces. 😀 Enough information for one day, right?] One of those days, that information is going to be worked into one of my books…I think I even know which one. 🙂Wow…I must rather chatty today……
@rolena-hatfield Perhaps we are! Might depend on which part of the US you hail from. (That’s another interest of mine–genealogy. You probably don’t want to get me started… 😀 )
I am a country-girl. Tell you, this corn up here in the mid-west seriously dwarfs me. I’m not from the mid-west really though, I’m Southern born and bred (as close as an Army brat can get). I love the South the most. I love the country because there is room–to grow things, raise critters, to run around (not that I’m doing much of that lately), and, truth be told, I can go out target shooting without wondering if I’m going to hit my neighbor’s house. I’d go stark raving crazy in a city–too many people. Crowds. *shivers*
I take it you’re a country lady too? 🙂Sherlock Holmes whetted my appetite for mystery stories. To this day, I love a good mystery. I believe I have read all of the the Holmes stories and consequently cannot remember them all or pick a favorite. Dr. Watson is actually my favorite character (I relate to him very well), but Sherlock’s immensely logical brain never ceases to wonder me.
In short, I love Sherlock Holmes…and now I’ve the hankering to go dig up one of my Holmes books…. 😀
I always love it when he tells his client where they’ve been because of the mud on their boots…
@dragon-snapper Sounds very interesting…a snapping dragon! 🙂 Thanks for the welcome. I guess I will have to learn more about all this interesting internet realm to see what category I might fall into.
@rebelutoinary Sarah, the chemical sensitives sound awful familiar too! I have started referring to my Lyme/co-infections, mold, etc as “The Soup”. I’m sorry that you struggle with this too! I’ll be checking out your blog. Funny as it sounds, it’s always encouraging to meet others with the same issues (my whole family has “The Soup”). How long have you been dealing with it? I’ve been treating for Lyme for almost three years now and started working on the mold this year. Praise the Lord I’m feeling better now than at this time last year!
@ingridrd Yes, it is a really long rifle! A friend of mine brought it over for the big shoot we had on Independence Day and let me get my hands on it. It’s soo long that I couldn’t shoulder it properly, so I’m actually glad that there wasn’t the opportunity to live fire–because I may have just had to have tried…
@emma-flournoy and @christi-eaton Thanks! 🙂@jess Thanks for the explanation! 🙂 I’m ignorant of how Twitter functions as I never gave a hoot about it anyway, so double thanks.
@sarah-h Hehee, thanks. 🙂 Dear me. That’s some question and one that I really can’t answer. (I never could answer favorite book questions.) However, The Midshipman Quinn books by Showell Styles are launching favorite scenes at me from the depths of my mind, so I can honestly say that I quite enjoy those. I have always preferred books marketed towards boys…
Well, I have three favorite time periods: American War for Independence, War Between the States (aka the Civil War), and WWII. Anyway, I mainly study (when I’m up to it) the WBtS as I’m trying to become an “expert”. In fact, my filmmaking is really documentary making and both my completed and very pre-production docs are set during that period. My WIP (research/roughest of rough draft stage) is set during the Reconstruction Era from 1865-1875 in South Carolina. I haven’t touched it in quite a while, but I’ve never quite abandoned it either.Hi, Kate! (haven’t gotten the tag thing figured out yet) That’s an interesting question, really. I’ve mainly written short stories that verge on fantasy, but with a more historical and less fantastical flair to them. I have a dystopian novel in the works (me, who has neither read nor watched a dystopia. Ever.) I also have a HUGE historical fiction project in the quay…actually began that first a couple of years ago, but it’s kind of stalled for various reasons. I’d love to continue down the path of historical fiction for sure.
Thank you, Daeus. No, last name’s Parker. I’ve been drinking coffee straight since I was 12, so yeah. I don’t kid non-coffee drinker’s though, so no fear on that front. 🙂
