You didn't ask, but then nobody on this list ever does, but I'll give this
advice anyway. If it were me I'd say "whet the curiosity" not wet. Do
with this information what you will. Ruth
At 7:26 AM -0400 4/5/04, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
Orgrease Scores!
Möbius Click or the Electrical Pliers 4th Place Tie in All That
Glitters Contest at Gator Springs Gazette.
No More Puppies runner up in All That Glitters Contest at Gator Springs
Gazette.
Eight Stones and Many Feet
A book of short stories written by Gabriel Orgrease is now available. It
is a 5 x 8 book with 141 pages, not too many of them blank.
Perfect bound with a neat cover for front and back. I've not yet got a
copy and have not proofed it... but it is there.
The neat thing is that I can change the book any time that I feel like
it. Cheaper online than in person.
I will also, I think, be putting original paper collages up for sale
here as well.
The lineup of stories is Lost Road, Prospecting Cordova Limestone in
Central Texas, Porcine Signs of Speedsville, Tin Peter, Hypno Chick,
Wrapped Autos, Salt, The Hamptons Classic Horse Show, and Many Feet.
From the story Many Feet: "I suppose a story can have an infinite
number of feet. I have never read any writer's handbook as yet that
suggests a limit to the number of feet to have in a story. Modesty in
foot count I would think would be the general rule, that is, unless you
are doing a brief war epic. Need the feet necessarily be attached to the
bodies from whence they were derived is one line of inquiry that I
suggest you pursue if we go very much further with this. You may also
want to be clear that you do not bore your readers silly with all of the
potential descriptions of feet. I think a few mentions here and there
would suffice to wet the curiosity and to maintain suspense... a brown
shoe with a broken lace and softened dog turd wedged in the tread... or
the delicate bare feet of the princess were light as an ostrich
feather... or the Frog with a Thousand Toes. The premise of the last,
the frog story, is for the reader to be kept curious with a frog with a
thousand toes as to how many trees in a tropical forest the frog with a
thousand toes will need to cling to at any one time."
Keep yourself updated at www.orgrease.org <http://www.orgrease.org/>
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Orgrease Scores!
Möbius Click or the Electrical Pliers 4th Place Tie in All That Glitters
Contest at Gator Springs Gazette.
No More Puppies runner up in All That Glitters Contest at Gator Springs
Gazette.
Eight Stones and Many Feet
A book of short stories written by Gabriel Orgrease is now available. It is
a 5 x 8 book with 141 pages, not too many of them blank.
Perfect bound with a neat cover for front and back. I've not yet got a copy
and have not proofed it... but it is there.
The neat thing is that I can change the book any time that I feel like it.
Cheaper online than in person.
I will also, I think, be putting original paper collages up for sale here
as well.
The lineup of stories is Lost Road, Prospecting Cordova Limestone in
Central Texas, Porcine Signs of Speedsville, Tin Peter, Hypno Chick,
Wrapped Autos, Salt, The Hamptons Classic Horse Show, and Many Feet.
>From the story Many Feet: "I suppose a story can have an infinite number
>of feet. I have never read any writer's handbook as yet that suggests a
>limit to the number of feet to have in a story. Modesty in foot count I
>would think would be the general rule, that is, unless you are doing a
>brief war epic. Need the feet necessarily be attached to the bodies from
>whence they were derived is one line of inquiry that I suggest you pursue
>if we go very much further with this. You may also want to be clear that
>you do not bore your readers silly with all of the potential descriptions
>of feet. I think a few mentions here and there would suffice to wet the
>curiosity and to maintain suspense... a brown shoe with a broken lace and
>softened dog turd wedged in the tread... or the delicate bare feet of the
>princess were light as an ostrich feather... or the Frog with a Thousand
>Toes. The premise of the last, the frog story, is for the reader to be
>kept curious with a frog with a thousand toes as to how many trees in a
>tropical forest the frog with a thousand toes will need to cling to at any
>one time."
Keep yourself updated at <http://www.orgrease.org/>www.orgrease.org
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