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.

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Question.....?

It's been nagging at me for some time now..
Does anybody else think there's something just a little "Zen"
about the A.O.?
*****************

4-20-10:fr the SS..a nice little 'grammar' site:
(gracias to Rein for link!)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/concise.htm

***************
5-25-10: that explains it! (a quote from the Chron's Book Review)
"Mary Sue" is not endemic to T-fics!!!
"...too much a "Mary Sue," that bane of beginning writers,
a character dangerously close to wish-fulfillment
for its author.."
That's what I was beginning to suspect..
***************
6-6-10:another little tidbit...
got to thinking...noticing that in many of the fan fiction
writers' "Profiles" there would be a recollection
of when each became aware of and interested
in the TMNT... quite often some mention of watching Saturday
morning cartoons on television....
gee..I feel kind of left out...when I was of an age
appropriate for Saturday morning cartoons...
there was no such thing as television !!!
(shocking...huh?)

posted by greshunkai @ 10:59 AM 0 comments