Kappa Tracks

"A story is made up of words and characters. Are the words well chosen and do the characters live? All the rest is literary gossip."

My six decade love affair with the English language compels me to offer a list of authors whose work meets my critical standards. The single criterion operant is the quality of the prose as composed by the writers. I have made no discrimination whatsoever as to subject matter, theme, or plot.

Therefore be warned!

A great many of the works here listed may involve themes or subjects repugnant to some readers. I can only advise that if a particular story cannot be stomached, go on to the next; you will find at least a few to be to your taste.

Friday, November 17, 2006

Horrors!

Someone has discovered this THING!
It was just a way to keep track(sic) of those
finely constructed fictions that I most enjoyed
on the ffnet.
It was like this--30 years of working in a library
predisposed me to making lists of authors/titles
on 3x5 file cards. So I had these two ersatz
shoe boxes of cards...I had gone through ALL
the 'pages' of TMNT on the ff site(from '99 to
abt. 5-06) & made a record of names/titles.
(Must have had close to 1000 cards..)
My son, who at the time worked for Yahoo,
discovered this very private listing of 'faves'
and information junkie that he is, INSISTED
that this record be SHARED!!
He constructed this thing he said was a 'blog'--
and here we are...

Thursday, November 16, 2006

rationale III

n.b.be aware of the configurations...
code 'name' initial letter capitalized...
denotes an especially competent writer...
the symbol {+} indicates the same.
title followed by asterisk(*)-or multiples thereof...
indicates a story especially relished by greshunkai.

rationale II(raison d'etre)

revision of all writers complt.
n.b.:nr./lt. code in ()=rev.of 11-06
a misquote fr.D.L.Sayers:"Us old women got nothing to lose.."
almost a quarter century post-menopausal...
don't nobody tell me what to read!
write it good & i'll read it & let you know how
much i liked it...with thanks!