Recent content by Karlin

Welcome Lanto. There's all sorts here, hope you'll find the site a useful sounding board.

A Canticle for Leibowitz! Walter M. Miller. A classic. If you haven't read it- do so.

In the same line of thought, I've read the following rather obscure memoir, from 1852: ADVENTURES OF A SOLDIER WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. BEING THE MEMOIRS OF EDWARD COSTELLO, K.S.F. Edward Costello. Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself / Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello, K.S.F. Formerly...

The few bits of poetry I've written have been deliberate imitations of certain styles. Either classic Chinese poetry (as best as I can manage, not knowing Chinese), or, in one odd case, a rewriting of part of the epic of Gilgamesh, to include Monkey

Hello chongjasmine! I was last in Singapore exactly a year ago.

Read "Reaper Man", Terry Pratchett. He makes Death lovable.

I'm a "what if" writer. "What if Michelangelo was a tattoo artist?" "What if Sun Wukong was at Marathon?" The ideas pop up, often mixing two unconnected things. What if this writer's forum was actually a hidden test run by aliens, to see if we were worthy of joining the Intergalactic League of...

will this game ever end?

My experience has been similar. I need to write without thinking about all the fine points. Then I need to let it rest. This is critical, because you won't see anything if it is fresh in your mind. Then read, fix. Then you need an editor. Things that are crystal clear to you will be confusing to...

We should start a thread of punchlines only, without the joke. Like: The Panda eats, shoots, and leaves

"When you have to shoot, shoot..."

No TV. No video games. Some internet, but little social media. I only look at the news bulletins (and there is a lot of news here), and try to avoid the endless "expert" analysis of whatever. Also, no internet at all on Saturdays, our Sabbath.

The panda...

Chinese culture. And my own (Jewish and American- if you can call that a "culture")

Maybe I'm the Greek chorus. "Hire an editor!" It's a rare writer who's going to create interesting characters, a great plot, AND get all the fine details of punctuation and whatnot right. I suspect the creative person and the careful punctuator occupy separate brains.