tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post2561067552759329341..comments2023-11-22T06:35:25.251-05:00Comments on POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS: 7/10thsJulia Buckleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-56963447174960789932011-02-22T23:56:02.603-05:002011-02-22T23:56:02.603-05:00Interesting - I've never heard of the phrase, ...Interesting - I've never heard of the phrase, or the phenomenon. I'll have to check my work!Kathleen Ernsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009876100214388898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-16838118830785703232011-02-22T19:26:56.790-05:002011-02-22T19:26:56.790-05:00Julia, I think of this more as a diagnostic tool. ...Julia, I think of this more as a diagnostic tool. If I've got a part that isn't going well --- like the part Elizabeth had to rewrite three times --- and it's about 7/10ths of the way to the end, I can ask myself if this is a dead kitten speech.<br /><br />So, Victoria, how did it go?<br /><br />Elizabeth, I be you did have something in there before the three re-writes. Of course you Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-71884830589773252252011-02-22T17:55:44.699-05:002011-02-22T17:55:44.699-05:00Ha! Just did the exercise with my YA historical su...Ha! Just did the exercise with my YA historical suspense ms about Columbus and Diego, the protagonist of my story "The Green Cross." No dead kitten. No soliloqy. No backstory. It's all dialogue and action--even though it falls in the part that I didn't need to rewrite three times. Could I possibly be learning how to write suspense? Finally?Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-13666424705168010502011-02-22T17:51:40.981-05:002011-02-22T17:51:40.981-05:00LOL, Sharon. I was absolutely sure you were going ...LOL, Sharon. I was absolutely sure you were going to be wrong, and you were right. At the dead kitten point in DEATH WILL EXTEND YOUR VACATION, the book for which I've just signed a contract, Bruce has a soliloquy about how he went on driving without a license after he got sober and how guilty he feels about letting his friends Jimmy and Barbara down by driving their car without telling them.Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-28378024065299214722011-02-22T11:30:51.880-05:002011-02-22T11:30:51.880-05:00This is fascinating, and I'm going right now t...This is fascinating, and I'm going right now to figure out if I've done it! I'm intrigued.Victoria Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04957947895990761325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-10130240288335066182011-02-22T09:40:59.997-05:002011-02-22T09:40:59.997-05:00How interesting, Sharon! I'm afraid I don'...How interesting, Sharon! I'm afraid I don't dissect my work this way as often as I should. It's so hard to be clinical about one's creation, and yet so necessary!!Julia Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.com