Recent content by Karlin

It's Chapter 27 of the Tao Te Ching. I should have given attribution. Maybe I assumed everyone would recognize it?

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is."

One wonders if Adams thought about this conciously.

Malik, why do you write? Personally.

Here's a curious one, perhaps pantsing taken too far. I got my main characters intoo a tattoo parlor, got the tatto parlor OK, but- I need the owner, the artist, who will be an important character. But I hadn't met this person yet. I had no idea who he or she was. I needed a tattoo artist! So...

Baseball Hat = American I generally wear a brocolli cat fur boa, so no one can guess where I am from.

Oh No! Don't say such a thing! Here everyone is "Doing What Tolkien Did", and you are suggesting that maybe He Didn't.

I am a huge fan of Farmer Giles. A wonderful story.

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Mark Twain. If anyone remembers him.

I've been avoiding it for over a decade, yet I don't don't think there's anything wrong with it. I'm a social media dinosaur, so I doubt Tik Tok has anything to do with my attitude.

A Canticle for Leibowitz. Amazing work, but one that doesn't get much attention these days.

I have read many good books that use "he said", "she said". It doesn't bother me when reading. For some reason, when writing, I try to avoid that. If it's a dialog, then the conversation is bouncing between two people, so it should be clear who is speaking just from the sequence. I find however...

In the meantime, I've struck up an aquaintance with one of the authors on this list

I just bought " tomorrow to be brave". Memoirs of the only woman to ever be in the French Foreign Legion. Amazing story. Here's an article from the BBC: BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The only woman in the French Foreign Legion BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The only woman in the French Foreign Legion

Mine was just over 20 years ago, during a spell of unemployment. A short novel, great premise, reasonably written. Self Published, sold a few copies. https://www.amazon.in/Role-Playing-Karlin-ebook/dp/B00WH7I8JO My wife says I should go back and rewrite it. Maybe someday.