68\u00a0 bar rises 30.02\u00a0 2mph NE dew-point 59\u00a0\u00a0 Summer, cool and pleasant<\/p>\n
Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon<\/p>\n
Again this morning off to the Cities to the Sierra Club for help with a mailing and to make some phone calls, drop by the MIA.\u00a0 This is three trips in two days and feels like too much.\u00a0 I scheduled all this myself, too.\u00a0 Hmmm, gotta speak to the person who keeps my calendar.<\/p>\n
After finishing 48 lectures on the history of English literature yesterday, I had an odd realization.\u00a0 Over the 15 plus years I have been writing, I have spent time in serious, sustained study of astronomy, liberal religion, art history and the classics. \u00a0 When I say serious, sustained study, I mean time frames of years.\u00a0 In the case of liberal religion over a decade.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 I have not devoted any appreciable and no sustained time to the study of the novel, the very form I have chosen as my own.\u00a0 Strange.<\/p>\n
So, my dream for the next stage of my life entails concentrated study of the novel, its history and craft, as well as reading more novels.\u00a0 I want to write a serious, literary novel, not my next one and perhaps not the one after that, but soon, one informed by the insights and craft of others.\u00a0 I might even take a college course in literature.\u00a0 When in college, I refused to take literature classes, saying I could read on my own.\u00a0 I have, too. \u00a0 Now, though, with a different intent, I might well find literature classes instructive.<\/p>\n
Gotta sign off and get to the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
68\u00a0 bar rises 30.02\u00a0 2mph NE dew-point 59\u00a0\u00a0 Summer, cool and pleasant Waning Gibbous Thunder Moon Again this morning off to the Cities to the Sierra Club for help with a mailing and to make some phone calls, drop by the MIA.\u00a0 This is three trips in two days and feels like too much.\u00a0 I … Continue reading A Novel Realization<\/span>