Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Jun 24 2010
Novels past, present and ours
I was looking back at the fiction best sellers for 1940 and noticed that The Grapes of Wrath was on the list. It's considered a classic, but for some reason I couldn't imagine it coming out now and being received in exactly the same way. Other titles on the list were Night in Bombay and For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1990 we had The Bourne Ultimatum and The Witching Hour. When you or I write the next great American (or other) novel, what titles will be adjacent to ours? What books will ours lean against on someone's bookshelf? What electronic device will relay our words to readers? Whose voice will read our story aloud on audio recordings? It's worth thinking about all this if it makes the accomplishment seem more attainable. We write for ourselves, for the readers, for the decade and maybe for the ages.
posted at: 21:07 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I was looking back at the fiction best sellers for 1940 and noticed that The Grapes of Wrath was on the list. It's considered a classic, but for some reason I couldn't imagine it coming out now and being received in exactly the same way. Other titles on the list were Night in Bombay and For Whom the Bell Tolls. In 1990 we had The Bourne Ultimatum and The Witching Hour. When you or I write the next great American (or other) novel, what titles will be adjacent to ours? What books will ours lean against on someone's bookshelf? What electronic device will relay our words to readers? Whose voice will read our story aloud on audio recordings? It's worth thinking about all this if it makes the accomplishment seem more attainable. We write for ourselves, for the readers, for the decade and maybe for the ages.
posted at: 21:07 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
