Comments on: The Novelist’s Deflowering: Great Expectations http://www.xenith.net/columns/the-way-of-words/the-novelists-deflowering-great-expectations/ digital literature and other nifty things. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: backgroundbob http://www.xenith.net/columns/the-way-of-words/the-novelists-deflowering-great-expectations/#comment-1055 backgroundbob Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:44:12 +0000 http://www.xenith.net/?p=1094#comment-1055 Hot damn. That man knew how to move an audience. Hot damn.

That man knew how to move an audience.

]]> By: Patrick Nathan http://www.xenith.net/columns/the-way-of-words/the-novelists-deflowering-great-expectations/#comment-1052 Patrick Nathan Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:33:40 +0000 http://www.xenith.net/?p=1094#comment-1052 I too have learned that the only way to write a novel is to set aside all your fears. Being afraid is what kept me from writing for so long. I think that my next post will be about that fear. I too have learned that the only way to write a novel is to set aside all your fears. Being afraid is what kept me from writing for so long. I think that my next post will be about that fear.

]]> By: system_effect http://www.xenith.net/columns/the-way-of-words/the-novelists-deflowering-great-expectations/#comment-1049 system_effect Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:42:29 +0000 http://www.xenith.net/?p=1094#comment-1049 He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever... I'm going to put this little nugget of greatness in my brain and let it rattle around while I try to rework my novel. Smart man, that Faulkner... He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever…

I’m going to put this little nugget of greatness in my brain and let it rattle around while I try to rework my novel. Smart man, that Faulkner…

]]> By: Patrick Nathan http://www.xenith.net/columns/the-way-of-words/the-novelists-deflowering-great-expectations/#comment-1029 Patrick Nathan Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:34:29 +0000 http://www.xenith.net/?p=1094#comment-1029 That word becomes more tangible for me every day. It's hard not to carry so much pessimism, but sometimes I finish a chapter in a way I wasn't expecting, but a way nonetheless that makes me sit back and tell myself I've done something right. There are times when I'm surprised. It's a wonderful feeling, and for the first time in years I'm starting to develop something resembling confidence. Thanks for reading. That word becomes more tangible for me every day. It’s hard not to carry so much pessimism, but sometimes I finish a chapter in a way I wasn’t expecting, but a way nonetheless that makes me sit back and tell myself I’ve done something right. There are times when I’m surprised. It’s a wonderful feeling, and for the first time in years I’m starting to develop something resembling confidence.

Thanks for reading.

]]> By: Father Luke http://www.xenith.net/columns/the-way-of-words/the-novelists-deflowering-great-expectations/#comment-1004 Father Luke Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:38 +0000 http://www.xenith.net/?p=1094#comment-1004 <i>I hope that he had the same energy that I find in myself–that which he couldn't quite articulate, that which drove him to write obsessively. </i> Haw haw. You're doomed. You're a writer, too... xo - - Okay, Father Luke I hope that he had the same energy that I find in myself–that which he couldn’t quite articulate, that which drove him to write obsessively.

Haw haw. You’re doomed. You’re a writer, too…

xo

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Okay,
Father Luke

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