Friday, November 18, 2011

Should a dirth of opinions worry you?

Or is it just a sign of maturity, that you have grown comfortable with the world and
It's faults, more accepting of peoples idiosyncrasies. The angriest I have found myself
In recent years was when a hotel didn't have a lift up to their first floor.
not that anger should be mistaken for an opinion. An opinion, in my opinion, is a choice between things and a conviction that your way is better. My problem is I can nearly always see other peoples points of views and see the merits in them. Perhaps it's a consequence of the very few responsibilities I have these days, I'm rarely forced to choose, so anything is ok for me. Doesen't help with writing fiction characters just go with the flow and that's nearly always dull.
Http://ollfindyourvoice.wikispaces.org for fiction without opinions.

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Fiction, writing of.

It's been a long time coming, but I've started to put effort and time into writing fiction. With the help of Ray Ross phd, and the mutual support of about 8 regulars at the University of Edinburgh Life Long Learning course.

I'll discuss the reasons and method later, but for now, I'm going to put the class exercises up here.

The reprise...

So the action has moved over to turning over a new Leith, Buffy's excellent new blog. And now that she is well established I won't feel bad for restarting to post here, not that it's a competition, but if it were, I would not be accused of stealing her traffic.