Tell me what you love about Lit and writing it.
I am on a fence. I once thought Lit was Shakespeare and esoteric poetry. Then I read some things by Buckley and loved the way his words flowed. What really trapped me was Walter Scott's Quentin Durward"(short title) *that was published in 1823 and promptly banned in Scotland. It was a first. A historical romance novel. It was all above the neck and filled with annotated historical footnotes as he borrowed actual events from different centuries to tell his story.
Until I read it, I understood nothing of the Low Countries or my ancestors born in the 1620s. Scott's story served two purposes. It introduced me to a different form of literary writing as it educated me. I was no longer overwhelmed by the HRE, the golden bull, or the mysteries of knights, kingdoms. invasions and land grabs. I was fascinated.
My picket fence is goading me to make a decision. I have a collection of short love stories that are not traditional romance, XXX, or even X. Saccharin sweet doesn't fit either. It may even be too plain spoken for a women's magazine, the age is too old to capture the imagination of the YA .
Maybe I will discover something in your answers that will let the sunshine through my gray clouds of doubt.
I am on a fence. I once thought Lit was Shakespeare and esoteric poetry. Then I read some things by Buckley and loved the way his words flowed. What really trapped me was Walter Scott's Quentin Durward"(short title) *that was published in 1823 and promptly banned in Scotland. It was a first. A historical romance novel. It was all above the neck and filled with annotated historical footnotes as he borrowed actual events from different centuries to tell his story.
Until I read it, I understood nothing of the Low Countries or my ancestors born in the 1620s. Scott's story served two purposes. It introduced me to a different form of literary writing as it educated me. I was no longer overwhelmed by the HRE, the golden bull, or the mysteries of knights, kingdoms. invasions and land grabs. I was fascinated.
My picket fence is goading me to make a decision. I have a collection of short love stories that are not traditional romance, XXX, or even X. Saccharin sweet doesn't fit either. It may even be too plain spoken for a women's magazine, the age is too old to capture the imagination of the YA .
Maybe I will discover something in your answers that will let the sunshine through my gray clouds of doubt.
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