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Entries Tagged as 'Grail'

Aging Gracefully, and Otherwise

November 15th, 2008 · 8 Comments

At least in the drafts I’ve done so far, the work-in-progress, Grail, uses a rotating point of view from mostly elderly characters. Because I’m not elderly yet myself (though I will be if I don’t work on it faster!), and knock on wood still fairly healthy, it’s tricky to tell the stories from inside the [...]

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Tags: Everyday Life · Grail · Ruminations · Science & Medicine

Paying Attention to History

November 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you’ve been visiting Running After My Hat for more than a few days, you already know about what you might politely call my serial attentiveness. Theoretically, this is a blog about writing. But then, oh, yeah — there’s stuff about music. And true, I rattle on sometimes about reading, too, but isn’t that sorta [...]

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Tags: Grail · History · How It Was · Looking Backward · Running After My Hat · Style and Craft · Writing

Paying Attention to Setting

September 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments

A few weeks ago, I read a blog entry somewhere about the claim (phrased variously) that the setting in a given work “becomes like [or even is] a character itself.” It drove the blogger crazy, because setting and character (in his/her opinion) have so little in common. Whatever my other reactions to the rant, it got [...]

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Tags: Grail · Looking Backward · Style and Craft · Writing