In this blog I discuss and model ways to\u00a0shake a dash\u00a0of literary\u00a0on your\u00a0life.\u00a0 (Or serve yourself a thick slab, if you’d like).\u00a0 I call it living literarily.\u00a0 There are\u00a0a couple of\u00a0ways to use and enjoy The Life Literary.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 You can\u00a0simply read things for the fun of reading.<\/strong> I’ll\u00a0try to keep\u00a0my pantry stocked with a good supply of\u00a0well-written, interesting essays,\u00a0stories,\u00a0poems, book reviews, letters (from abroad and from home), narratives (of events), and journals (dated entries that follow the progress of something, like a garden or a grandchild’s birth and growth).\u00a0 I’ll put everything I write in a category (see the list of categories on the right-hand side of the page).\u00a0 Hover the cursor over the category for a description of what’s there.\u00a0\u00a0Click the category to see everything in\u00a0a particular\u00a0group.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 You can get ideas and practical suggestions for ways to live literarily.<\/strong> The tabs just under the picture across the top are\u00a0like chapter\u00a0titles for a book that might be called\u00a0Ways to Live Literarily.\u00a0 Click a tab, reveal the introduction to the particular subject.\u00a0 Each chapter has its corresponding category on the right-hand side of the page.\u00a0 You want information about conducting a Literary Event, memorizing poetry, or ways to include writing in your life?\u00a0\u00a0Click on the category that interests you and start gathering ideas.\u00a0 Or search for a specific thing using the Search field at the bottom of the right-hand column.<\/p>\n Here’s a tip<\/span>.\u00a0 Each tab across the top is like the chapter of a book.\u00a0 All posts should fit into one chapter or another, either as an example of what the chapter is talking about or else a discussion of the chapter’s topic.<\/p>\n My<\/strong> quirks (thrown in free of charge):<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>A<\/strong>. I am going to try to model good writing and techniques for literary living.\u00a0\u00a0I am\u00a0not<\/span>, however,\u00a0going to explain everything I do.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m just going to do it.\u00a0\u00a0For example, I wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times.\u00a0 I posted the first version with 343 words and the one I actually sent with only 150.\u00a0 I’m not going to say: “Hey!\u00a0 Look at this!\u00a0\u00a0Here’s an\u00a0example of how to strengthen what you write by editing out extraneous words.”\u00a0 Similarly, for example, though I will write about writing a daily sentence, I’m also simply going to write\u00a0one or twenty without saying, “This is a daily sentence.\u00a0 See?\u00a0 See?\u00a0 Ain’t it spiffy?”\u00a0 Maybe\u00a0that’s at least\u00a0part of why I haven’t written this how-to guide until nearly two months into this venture.\u00a0\u00a0The pursuit is vital to the capture.<\/p>\n B. <\/strong>I will not explain puns, picture captions, or any other word play.\u00a0 Unless someone asks me nicely.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 I’m just going to put it out there.\u00a0 I love word play and I love not letting anyone in on the humor, at least not until they’ve thought about it a tad.\u00a0 Once again, part of the fun is the pursuit.\u00a0 (Plus, hopefully, I’ll do a decent enough job of the word play that you’ll get it.)<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/address>\n <\/strong>C. <\/strong>I really can’t stand over-used cliches like “work in progress.”\u00a0 A good writer ought to be able to express things cleverly and\u00a0concisely without resorting to hackneyed, worn-out phrases.\u00a0 With that in mind, I want to say that this blog is a work in progress.\u00a0 That may bother you, but it is what it is.\u00a0 You may search this blog with a fine tooth comb, looking for what interests you, but you may not find it yet.\u00a0\u00a0Make no mistake! \u00a0I am not going to run around like a chicken with its head cut off to get every category nicely filled.\u00a0 It’ll get done.\u00a0 All in due time.<\/p>\n A couple more things:<\/p>\n Links I Like:<\/strong> There are a blue million literary links on the Internet.\u00a0 The ones I list are the ones I\u00a0read regularly.<\/p>\n Recent Posts and Archives<\/strong>:\u00a0 My goal is to add one or two posts every day.\u00a0 That means something that might interest you will get quickly buried in the archives.\u00a0 Take a look at the list of Recent Posts and Archives, both in the right-hand column, to see what you might have missed that you wish you hadn’t.<\/p>\n RSS Feed:<\/strong> At the bottom of the page, you can select to receive The Life Literary<\/em> posts via RSS feed to your reader.\u00a0 That’s another option for using TLL<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this blog I discuss and model ways to\u00a0shake a dash\u00a0of literary\u00a0on your\u00a0life.\u00a0 (Or serve yourself a thick slab, if you’d like).\u00a0 I call it living literarily.\u00a0 There are\u00a0a couple of\u00a0ways to use and enjoy The Life Literary. 1.\u00a0 You … Continue reading