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It's time for an update! Yep... it was too early to celebrate because certain people refused to get vaxxed and showed up at the party covid-drunk. *sigh*
En serio, time to fire up the ire and rant another entry!
Reading this in August is ... amusing (but not in a good way). Over 6 months have passed. I had my J&J jab in April and was hoping to be traveling by now. But ... all that optimism has vanished. I'm back to wearing masks.
Yes, this rosy future could've happened. But some of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are irrational and unreachable. Montana is having a severe outbreak in Kalispell (Glacier Park) and here in Missoula we are running out of beds. I know of two cases of health professionals (dentist, PT) who tested positive in the last week. This does not bode well.
Thank you for reading my blog. Yes, I plan to continue the saga of "Long Ago, in the Mountains". I have been a bit busy during these last few days. I am definitely continuing with the story.
I just discovered your blog, and I'm enjoying "Long Ago, In the Mountains" I hope you're going to keep going with this story because I so want to read what happens next!
Children do deserve to be loved and cared for, but unfortunately they sometimes get stuck with adults who don't know how to do that very well.
Nothing makes me angrier than seeing a parent mistreat a child through neglect and indifference. Often the child is trapped in the house with a cold adult, whereas the adult is free to escape the situation as they please. It's not surprising that children would have fantasies of "running away".
In my opinion, what would make a melodramatic scene good or bad would be whether or not it is consistent with the story.
I'll give you an example from Hollywood. I was watching an old black&white movie intended for kids and there was a scene where some kids were hiding in a basement and trying to be quiet because bad men were poking around. They had a dog who wanted to bark so one kid clamped his hand over the dog's mouth to keep him quiet. Finally it was safe. The bad men had left. But the one kid was crying because his dog was dead. He had smothered it to death.
I thought THAT IS SO WRONG! It's just so out of place, doesn't fit, runs completely against the tone of the movie. The movie lost all credibility for me. I could only mock it after that.
Same thing in a novel. If you write a scene that is glaringly out of place, you ruin the novel.
There is nothing wrong with a melodramatic scene if it's in a melodramatic novel.
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