Good on yer Terri. I think there is a book, bearing the story title, out with a couple of her other - each and every one - notable shorter form fictions collected withing its covers.
Not sure how, let alone why, another title of a novel by an outstanding English female writer comes to mind but as it has I'm more than pleased to commend it…
Good on yer Terri. I think there is a book, bearing the story title, out with a couple of her other - each and every one - notable shorter form fictions collected withing its covers.
Not sure how, let alone why, another title of a novel by an outstanding English female writer comes to mind but as it has I'm more than pleased to commend it to you and other Story Clubbers happening to pass their reading 👀 this way. The title is The Pure Gold Baby, the writer is Margaret Drabble, date of publication was 2013 (which signals it as being a later work in her canon).
Ah yes! Penny drops. In regard of Claire Keegan, whose wordage is slim in total but in each instance viscerally etched on this reader's memory, what I'd borrow and repurpose from Margaret Drabble's title is the thought that whenever we first read, re-read or take notice of a freshly forthcoming new story title the expectation that rises is something along the lines of "Pure Gold Prose".
So write, I now, how right written - albeit so visceral wrote - is your, so deeply engaging and deeper though provoking substantial novel entitled 'The Seasonwife'. No small, yet in my reading, utterly novel achievement Saige. I do, have and will, encourage all passing this threaded way - as I have in other, similar, such ways I have chipped a suggestion of a warp this way and a weft that way - to find and read your recent long form fiction.
Took my breath away... broadened my insight... couldn't wait to turn the page, begin the next chapter, find out what the outcome was going to turn out to be.
Just my personal, airing and sharing of, my personal point of view, and I have the temerity to repeat "utterly novel achievement". The title raised an sense of expectation; the published novel delivered.
"I noticed; I read; I discovered."
Or to splay it in the Latin I'm not, the least, claiming to command:
"Animadverti; Lego; Inventus sum."
😂 < He to the left being laughing at my inadequate Latin. > 👑 to my right being, simply, salutation to you story-telling prowess Saige. 🙏
Oh Rob, thank you so much for your kind response to my debut novel. Your words reached me today after a week of writing scenes for the next novel. The experience of time-travelling - being deeply immersed in another time and place. I came out drenched and felt quite sick to be torn away from the characters. You remind me that writers write and readers read to reach that other place and those other people, honouring that other time and place. Thank you for reminding me that it is worthwhile.
You are welcome to my words Saige. A tad, deliberately so, convoluted though they may be they do endeavour to convey this reader's experience: "utterly novel achievement".
Glad to be made aware that you are writing to etch story into another time and place; I will look forward to reading myself into such setting as you are making and to meeting and making acquaintance with the characters you populate it with.
Good on yer Terri. I think there is a book, bearing the story title, out with a couple of her other - each and every one - notable shorter form fictions collected withing its covers.
Not sure how, let alone why, another title of a novel by an outstanding English female writer comes to mind but as it has I'm more than pleased to commend it to you and other Story Clubbers happening to pass their reading 👀 this way. The title is The Pure Gold Baby, the writer is Margaret Drabble, date of publication was 2013 (which signals it as being a later work in her canon).
Ah yes! Penny drops. In regard of Claire Keegan, whose wordage is slim in total but in each instance viscerally etched on this reader's memory, what I'd borrow and repurpose from Margaret Drabble's title is the thought that whenever we first read, re-read or take notice of a freshly forthcoming new story title the expectation that rises is something along the lines of "Pure Gold Prose".
A title is an expectation. A proposal, a promise, and the novel or novella is the delivery.
So write, I now, how right written - albeit so visceral wrote - is your, so deeply engaging and deeper though provoking substantial novel entitled 'The Seasonwife'. No small, yet in my reading, utterly novel achievement Saige. I do, have and will, encourage all passing this threaded way - as I have in other, similar, such ways I have chipped a suggestion of a warp this way and a weft that way - to find and read your recent long form fiction.
Took my breath away... broadened my insight... couldn't wait to turn the page, begin the next chapter, find out what the outcome was going to turn out to be.
Just my personal, airing and sharing of, my personal point of view, and I have the temerity to repeat "utterly novel achievement". The title raised an sense of expectation; the published novel delivered.
"I noticed; I read; I discovered."
Or to splay it in the Latin I'm not, the least, claiming to command:
"Animadverti; Lego; Inventus sum."
😂 < He to the left being laughing at my inadequate Latin. > 👑 to my right being, simply, salutation to you story-telling prowess Saige. 🙏
Oh Rob, thank you so much for your kind response to my debut novel. Your words reached me today after a week of writing scenes for the next novel. The experience of time-travelling - being deeply immersed in another time and place. I came out drenched and felt quite sick to be torn away from the characters. You remind me that writers write and readers read to reach that other place and those other people, honouring that other time and place. Thank you for reminding me that it is worthwhile.
You are welcome to my words Saige. A tad, deliberately so, convoluted though they may be they do endeavour to convey this reader's experience: "utterly novel achievement".
Glad to be made aware that you are writing to etch story into another time and place; I will look forward to reading myself into such setting as you are making and to meeting and making acquaintance with the characters you populate it with.
"Worthwhile." The very word.