Comments on: Question of the Week: Telling Mom http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/ LitPark Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Weekly Wrap: Our Mothers http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-12585 Weekly Wrap: Our Mothers Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:18:45 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-12585 [...] answers to the question of the week are so heartstopping-beautiful, I hope you’ll go back to Monday’s Question of the Week and read every last one. Thank you to all of you who played or who considered playing. And thank [...] [...] answers to the question of the week are so heartstopping-beautiful, I hope you’ll go back to Monday’s Question of the Week and read every last one. Thank you to all of you who played or who considered playing. And thank [...]

]]> By: LitPark Gang Talks Loss http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-12509 LitPark Gang Talks Loss Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:07:10 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-12509 [...] November 13th Question of the Week was: “Is your mom proud of you? Do you let her read your work? Does she even know you [...] [...] November 13th Question of the Week was: “Is your mom proud of you? Do you let her read your work? Does she even know you [...]

]]> By: litpark » Weekly Wrap: Our Mothers http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1158 litpark » Weekly Wrap: Our Mothers Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:13:42 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1158 [...] Your answers to the question of the week are so heartstopping-beautiful, I hope you’ll go back to Monday’s Question of the Week and read every last one. Thank you to all of you who played or who considered playing. And thank you to Eric Spitznagel for giving me the idea for the question. [...] [...] Your answers to the question of the week are so heartstopping-beautiful, I hope you’ll go back to Monday’s Question of the Week and read every last one. Thank you to all of you who played or who considered playing. And thank you to Eric Spitznagel for giving me the idea for the question. [...]

]]> By: Susan Henderson http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1157 Susan Henderson Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:38:08 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1157 Noria - Thanks so much for gathering everyone together. Now my blog won't have an opening till the new year so take your time and have fun with it. Grant - How come I haven't read your third book? Shelley - What a wonderfully artistic household you grew up in. And how great that your mother loved the sex scenes in your book! Shelley, Jordan - What does it mean when Mercury goes direct? Kevin - The Hitchcock shower scene is a great example. I'm glad for both kinds of writers - those who know how to use subtlety and those who can take you somewhere fierce without blinking. Josh - Hee. If anyone missed the surprise interview with Josh's mom, just click on the Kilmer-Purcell link to the right. Lauren - : ) Noria – Thanks so much for gathering everyone together. Now my blog won’t have an opening till the new year so take your time and have fun with it.

Grant – How come I haven’t read your third book?

Shelley – What a wonderfully artistic household you grew up in. And how great that your mother loved the sex scenes in your book!

Shelley, Jordan – What does it mean when Mercury goes direct?

Kevin – The Hitchcock shower scene is a great example. I’m glad for both kinds of writers – those who know how to use subtlety and those who can take you somewhere fierce without blinking.

Josh – Hee. If anyone missed the surprise interview with Josh’s mom, just click on the Kilmer-Purcell link to the right.

Lauren – : )

]]> By: LaurenBaratz-Logsted http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1156 LaurenBaratz-Logsted Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:27:59 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1156 "Lauren - I love your mom." I'll bet she'd love you too! “Lauren – I love your mom.” I’ll bet she’d love you too!

]]> By: josh kilmer-purcell http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1155 josh kilmer-purcell Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:45:33 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1155 my mother had no idea until some nosey blogger came along and... my mother had no idea until some nosey blogger came along and…

]]> By: Kevin Noel Olson http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1154 Kevin Noel Olson Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:03:52 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1154 Most of the material I've had published is relatively tame. Not very much concentration on the less honored subjects like sex and gruesome violence. Not that I'm frightened of that, but I believe Lovecraft when he suggests what is suggested is much more psychologically impactive than what is graphically displayed. The presumption here is that the reader probably has a vivid imagination, and as a writer it is often preferable to allow them to use it. Like the shower scene in Psycho that shows nothing but suggests brutality. Hitchcock couldn't have bought the effect and footprint it leaves on the mind of the viewer with a twenty-million dollar special effects budget. The writer's job is to cause the reader to experience the environment and the emotions. No amount of great writing can achieve that better than the reader's own mind does. Most of the material I’ve had published is relatively tame. Not very much concentration on the less honored subjects like sex and gruesome violence. Not that I’m frightened of that, but I believe Lovecraft when he suggests what is suggested is much more psychologically impactive than what is graphically displayed.
The presumption here is that the reader probably has a vivid imagination, and as a writer it is often preferable to allow them to use it. Like the shower scene in Psycho that shows nothing but suggests brutality. Hitchcock couldn’t have bought the effect and footprint it leaves on the mind of the viewer with a twenty-million dollar special effects budget. The writer’s job is to cause the reader to experience the environment and the emotions. No amount of great writing can achieve that better than the reader’s own mind does.

]]> By: Shelley Marlow http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1153 Shelley Marlow Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:13:23 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1153 Oh and Mercury goes direct this Friday. Oh and Mercury goes direct this Friday.

]]> By: Shelley Marlow http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1152 Shelley Marlow Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:55:58 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1152 My mom is a constant reader. When I was growing up, I'd sit in the living room and read my mother's collection of books. The living room was where they entertained, with a round glass table with driftwood candle holders in the center that my favorite uncle Dave built,and some of my father's sculptures, and some of my mother's paintings. I still have her complete Shakespeare book and James Joyce's Ulysses. I remember also reading her copies of Poe, and Boccaccio's The Decameron. She tells me she loves my writing. She's read excerpts that have been published from my first book, Lesbians of Arabia. She said she loved the sex scenes because it gave her new ideas! My mom is a constant reader. When I was growing up, I’d sit in the living room and read my mother’s collection of books. The living room was where they entertained, with a round glass table with driftwood candle holders in the center that my favorite uncle Dave built,and some of my father’s sculptures, and some of my mother’s paintings. I still have her complete Shakespeare book and James Joyce’s Ulysses. I remember also reading her copies of Poe, and Boccaccio’s The Decameron.
She tells me she loves my writing. She’s read excerpts that have been published from my first book, Lesbians of Arabia. She said she loved the sex scenes because it gave her new ideas!

]]> By: Grant Bailie http://www.litpark.com/2006/11/13/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1151 Grant Bailie Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:56:08 +0000 http://litpark.com/2006/11/20/question-of-the-week-telling-mom/#comment-1151 My mom died before I ever published anything, but she was proud of me wanting to be a writer, I think, and I am sure was quite instrumental in getting me that typewriter I wanted for my 13th birthday. My first book is partly about her, in fact. As is my second. As is my third. My mom died before I ever published anything, but she was proud of me wanting to be a writer, I think, and I am sure was quite instrumental in getting me that typewriter I wanted for my 13th birthday.

My first book is partly about her, in fact. As is my second. As is my third.

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