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By: EBV

EBV — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:51:57 +0000

There is something to the notion of vocation, or calling. It's not just for those who are missionaries or priests or even for writers and musicians. I have met people in these fields who also do what they do because it is a job and they're comfortable. I have also met people who are landscapers, insurance brokers, parts department managers, sailors, Marines, secretaries, and engineers who do what they do because they couldn't not do it. There is a spiritual compulsion and passion they cannot ignore. They're not all at the top of their fields, veritable Rembrandts or Goddards, either. They are called, however, and must follow the path they do.

By: MAMiracle

MAMiracle — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:32:01 +0000

The most difficult part of taking on Loony Lefties in a social setting is time. They are deeply wrong about so many topics, so credulous without evidence, so willing to believe anything as long as it's stupid, that it would take a year long re-education camp just to get them up to ignorant from ill informed.

I'm glad that the only people who take them seriously are people who are just as silly as they are.

By: frolo

frolo — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:19:08 +0000

Two non-fiction books which gives a great history of the Hill Country German's is , Lone Star A History Of Texas And Texans,by T.R. Fehenbach. Too understand who and why LBJ was what he was, and might have detested many of those big German boys he grew up with, Robert Caro's trilogy beat's um all. The Path To Power gives insight into being raised amongst the German Texans. Von Braunfel's located the German's to the hill country, and promised them "fertile land". As soon as they cleared the fields of the "scrub brush", the soil washed off. As Jerry Jeff Walker so famously wrote, "taken again". Which brings up sheep, and the old tunnel that went under the only trans-state highway, passing through the hill country, US. 281.

When it comes to good old "jerky", you got give it to those Hill Country Germans.

By: C. Aguilar

C. Aguilar — Sun, 24 May 2009 06:19:14 +0000

Amazing to find a discussion of German influence in the Texas Hill Country (how else to explain the presence of accordian and polka harmonies in Tejano music?!) at Big Hollywood at 1:20am on a Saturday. As a fan of "Der Schlitterbahn," Oma's Haus, and Gruene, I plan to find Sarge's books ASAP.____

As for the actual theme of the article. Yup. Getting your book/film/album read/seen/heard is the other 150% of the equation after all the effort, perspiration, and luck that got the damned thing imagined and made in the first place. All the more reason to make it good when you get the chance and then believe in it and do it justice when it comes time to get it out there.

By: Bill_Brandt

Bill_Brandt — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:41:38 +0000

Sgt –
Years ago, I watched the mini series Centenial – taken from James Mitchener's book. The series was in my opinion so well done – loved the way they went from the present and went back to the 18th century trappers – I decided to read Mitchener's book.

That book started from the dinosaurs – giminy Christmas – I lasted about 100 pages before I couldn't take it.

You talk about long-winded – of course, who am I to criticize Mitchener – in my opinion the king of literary long-windedness – I had also read Hawaii but at the time (1969) I was working in the back country of Sequoia NP with a chainsaw and a sleeping bag – and no diversions

Later seeing Lonesome Dove on TV I was so taken by McMurtry's characters Gus and Woodrow I had to read the book and enjoyed that – I was so taken with the characters as your readers are taken with yours.

I think part of the reason was that they had seen so much change in Texas – and were instrumental in "taming" it – and were in their later years considered "relics" by an unappreciative populace, but they still soldiered on.

The barroom scene in San Antonio was priceless.

I guess what I like about a good historical novel is that if done right you are taken back into time. You can look at "today" and get an idea how we got there.

I love history and writing so I just have to find the vehicle.

Thanks (as one who has BTDT – for spending a bit of time with me….

By: SgtMom

SgtMom — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:52:40 +0000

Good for you, ducks … remember to take the next one. Otherwise, you will be turning unattractively purple and all.

By: SgtMom

SgtMom — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:49:19 +0000

Thanks, Bill – and yes, the passion has to be there. You have to care about the persons – fictional and otherwise, and it gets to the point where you have to tell the story. You can't not do it! The joke around my writers' support group, the IAG (Independent Authors' Guild) is that writing it is only half the job – the other is getting it out there, putting your story in front of readers who will likely be interested.

Not the first time I've been compared to McMurtry, though although, for my money, he rambles too far off the central plot in side-excursions into the characters. You read along, and pretty soon you are thinking … oh, what happened to the plot? Was there a plot and a point? Are we going to get back to it any time soon? Eh, that's his way of telling a story, and I have mine.

By: tcb

tcb — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:52:16 +0000

I write too. Unlike the scribbler of this blog and many of you poseur posters, I am paid well to do so and have a fan base that, imagine this, transverses ideological boundaries. I visit this page anytime my confidence shrivels slightly, when I feel like I'm drowning in pages, to see the truly unbreathable words at the bottom of the ocean. Thanks for the breath.