tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post2453758958255012080..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Not Too Tidy by Joan LennonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-46622525162501693242017-07-21T11:52:04.782+01:002017-07-21T11:52:04.782+01:00Really interesting and thought-provoking post, Joa...Really interesting and thought-provoking post, Joan. Thank you.Lynne Bentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14412874594191347503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-32629040761362728502017-07-21T10:25:44.452+01:002017-07-21T10:25:44.452+01:00Thank you for WRITING IT - not 'wiring' it...Thank you for WRITING IT - not 'wiring' it!Anne Boothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17160915179685300264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-66043880938473628932017-07-21T10:24:51.908+01:002017-07-21T10:24:51.908+01:00I love this. Thank you for wiring it.I love this. Thank you for wiring it.Anne Boothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17160915179685300264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-66019196224520211112017-07-20T15:04:30.978+01:002017-07-20T15:04:30.978+01:00Lovely post, and no need for a neat summing up, im...Lovely post, and no need for a neat summing up, imo. I think this opportunity to leave the reader projecting the story into their own imagined future is one reason why I like short stories, a genre where (perhaps ironically)open questions are something of a convention. I wonder, though, how far it is possible to persuade the children's publishing industry to agree with this openness at the moment. Completeness, resonances between the beginning and ending, and an underlying positive charge of hope at The End seem to be popular requirements right now.Rowena Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11548957772863528477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-43721417762807566422017-07-20T11:38:05.954+01:002017-07-20T11:38:05.954+01:00Liked all these thoughts but can't help with a...Liked all these thoughts but can't help with any last summing-up paragraph.<br /><br />Joan Aiken's book on writing is one of my favourite books for its mood and wisdom, and sesne of competence and peace. It appeared (I think) before the American story-structure "bibles" arrived. <br /><br />The clip: That enigmatic ending for the Man in the White Suit is helped so much by the emphasis of the music, isn't it? <br /><br />Sometimes I wish that writers/publishers could install a tiny device to play just the right music for a certain important scene in a book, but then I think of those too-overwhelming Disney songs and decide that the words should be enough to create the right mood-music in the head. <br /><br />Good luck with the novel.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.com