The islands, either the US or Canadian ones, on the Pacific coast near the Canada/US border, called the San Juan Islands in the US and the Gulf Islands in Canada -- the straddle the border. They have an ideal, almost mediterranean climate and a bright educated artistic population.
I'm taking notes here ladies, do carry on, but for the record, I do prefer to make the first move myself. I hope I get it right, to any hints you might give me are all for the good, but I want to make the first move, please. Why? Well, women terrify me, and if a woman makes the first move that might really panic me. You gals is fearsome creatures. Headstrong. Flightly. Dangerous. If you weren't so damn desirable I wouldn't risk it.
Doncha remember the 45 changers with the complicated mechanisms up the center posts. RCA bet the farm on these 45 changers that would hold big stacks of singles while the other guys bet on LPs. The center posts had to be big enough to hold the complicated mechanism and support the weight of the stack of singles.
Whether any other writers would ever do what have done, I don't know, but tonight I have increased the number of complete novels I have on the web by one from from five to six, adding the third novel in my Green Family Chronicles Series. So far none of them has been offered to a publisher, and I have no plans to do so, as they were not written with that in mind. The were written with that placed firmly out of mind, as firmly as I could, so it would not restrain me. They were books I had to write, things I had to get off my chest, experiments, thought experiments, works that are half literature and half social theory, or some kind of theory. Less social in the Chronicles in than others, or at least in later books of the Chronicles. This one carries the story of the Green family quite a ways into the future and get to be science fiction. See the note I placed in the Book Chat thread for more information.
What is new on the web tonight is the third book in my Green Family Chronicles Series, which is now available to be read on line or downloaded. It extends the history of the Green family far enough into the future that the story develops a lot of science fiction elements: space exploration, artificial intelligence, immortality, virtual people, and so on. If it was not mine I could give you a URL, but the the rules now prohibit that. Well, it is the third volume in a series anyway, and would make not too much sense unless you'd read the first two, which is unlikely, isn't it. If anyone really wants to start a long series of novels they could send me a message. If you want to try something less ambition, I have a shorter series of two novels online. If you want to peek without asking me for a URL, which might seem to commit you a bit, I'll give you a clue, the key to accessing them is through my website which has the same name as my big single novel "Technological Fantasies", with the words concatenated, but I don't think of myself as a Commercial enterprise but an Organization.
That's a lot of reading to do in a second language. I am impressed. I'll have to try the ones lower down on your list some time, though I don't like books with gruesome parts and cringed at the gruesome parts of Diana Gabaldon's books. I am chicken, myself, and there is nothing the least little bit nasty in any of my own novels.
Hey, NorternStar! Hi there! Welcome to the forums from an oldtimer here in more ways than one, who is another BC person, born in Vancouver, raised there and in North Van, now living in Nanaimo in Van Isle. I've been in Abbotsford often, for the airshow, for example. Anyway, welcome, glad to have you here, though I guess I'm so old you wouldn't let me have you anywhere. My loss, we'll try to find you someone more appropriate.
Oh, well, Nanaimo is an old coal mining town which is also a harbour city with a lot of fishing boats and sailboats. It is very green and pleasant with a nice climate, two weeks of snow a year, perhaps, and couple of rainy months in spring and fall. Hotlips we have a Newcastle Island in the harbour named after your city and had a coal in it once and a shaft connected it to the mines under our city, all long gone now. They fueled the British Pacifid fleet in days gone by. Now it is tourism, fishing, whale-watching, and the forest industry nearby. Nice little city of 100,000 50 miles east of more famous 1.5 million Vancouver where I was born and raised.
Do a search for -- last name: Smith first name: Jacqueline you will find several Jacqueline M. Smiths, she is the one with a poem named Brandon. You will recognize her style and content immediately. They are lighthearted, lyrical, comic poems, well-written. I think she could write the lyrics for a Broadway musical, they are that sort of thing, I think, but I am oriented that way.
OK, I read all your poems, Jacqueline M. Smith, lyrical comic poetess. There are some mistakes, by the way, change the last word of the first line of the poem to Zoloft to 'be', I think, and spell nausea right in the poem that features that word so prominently, but these are details. I liked them very much. Your poems are comic, like you, and lyrical in nature, like Aristophenes. You should partner up with a composer and write a musical comedy as a certain person will do in a certain book you are reading by a certain disreputable author.
Poetry.com has things by lots of different Jacqueline Smiths and lots of different Jackie Smiths and I don't want to read the ones you like and think you might hate them and the ones you hate and think you might like them. Tell me which is which.
You were reading "Technological Fantasies" it is actually the life story of the kid born to the pregnant woman. Takes a while to get there! Thanks, by the way, for starting it.
Oh, good, you've read the first word of page one, and found it a fine word, one you've used many times your self, actually. Oh, now, if it was "Harmony and Matching", I think the first word is a name, but not a bad name, one you can grok the resonance of. Yes. So when will you let me read your first word?
Wouldn't you be surprised if I knocked on your door, Jackie. Sorry to hear you have to supplement your income that way. So do I get to read any of your stuff? You show me yours, I'll show you mine.
not just poetry, dammit, no matter what the idiotic classification scheme says
I hereby invite all writers to come and discuss the craft of writing and share samples of their works.
The rules now prohibit display of URLs, so, for example, if anyone wants to read sample chapters from my novels, ask me, and I will send them the URL in a personal message. If you have stuff on a webpage for me to read, you can send me the URL in a message.
I hope we can help one another, and maybe have some fun too.
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RE: When it comes to the physical side of things.....
Le Sacre de Printemps?dpw