Comments for The Saturday Morning Post http://joeponepinto.com Delivered Fresh Every Saturday Morning Mon, 28 May 2012 15:39:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Fessing Up to the Novel in the Closet by jpon http://joeponepinto.com/2012/05/26/fessing-up-to-the-novel-in-the-closet/#comment-571 Mon, 28 May 2012 15:39:07 +0000 http://joeponepinto.com/?p=610#comment-571 Oh, what a sobering thought. A writer never imagines his/her current project is “practice.” I certainly didn’t think that about my first two novel attempts when I was writing them, and I still have some hope for the second, although as time goes on that book seems more and more like a closet dweller. On the other hand, I know several writers whose first book was published and went on to success, and Teri, I hope yours takes that path.

]]> Comment on Fessing Up to the Novel in the Closet by Teri http://joeponepinto.com/2012/05/26/fessing-up-to-the-novel-in-the-closet/#comment-570 Mon, 28 May 2012 15:09:15 +0000 http://joeponepinto.com/?p=610#comment-570 I wish I had 3 practice novels in the drawer —- because my current fear is that my memoir might be my practice book. Thinking of that hurts.

]]> Comment on Fessing Up to the Novel in the Closet by jpon http://joeponepinto.com/2012/05/26/fessing-up-to-the-novel-in-the-closet/#comment-569 Mon, 28 May 2012 01:22:09 +0000 http://joeponepinto.com/?p=610#comment-569 The color chapter titles remind me of a failed attempt of mine to title each chapter in a novel with a line from a poem. A poem I wrote.

I should mention I am not a poet. Not by a long shot.

]]> Comment on Fessing Up to the Novel in the Closet by laurastanfill http://joeponepinto.com/2012/05/26/fessing-up-to-the-novel-in-the-closet/#comment-568 Sun, 27 May 2012 06:52:09 +0000 http://joeponepinto.com/?p=610#comment-568 My very first was a fantasy novel I started in high school, and all I remember is lots of scenes in “the woods.” My second had a bizarre structure (were the chapters really all named for colors of the rainbow?) that fell apart before I finished. My third sounded pretty but was lacking in the plot department. I still have a copy of that one on my computer, but I haven’t read it in nine or ten years; the other two are probably on floppy disks someplace. I love the idea of keeping these old wrecks around to remind myself of how much I’ve learned. If I count these early attempts, which I usually don’t, my current work-in-progress is book number six.

]]> Comment on Fessing Up to the Novel in the Closet by nadiaibrashi http://joeponepinto.com/2012/05/26/fessing-up-to-the-novel-in-the-closet/#comment-567 Sun, 27 May 2012 02:23:08 +0000 http://joeponepinto.com/?p=610#comment-567 Go for it. Dig that novel out of your closet and into the light of day.

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