29 January 2013
28 January 2013
Ronald D Smith's Book -- Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General .
Historian Ron Smith discusses his new book Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General. Smith takes readers back to Bleeding Kansas, with its border ruffians and land speculators, to show how Thomas Ewing Jr. and his family played pivotal roles in the history of Kansas, Missouri, and the nation. This event took place on October 21, 2009, at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, MO.
Amazon link.
Historian Ron Smith discusses his new book Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General. Smith takes readers back to Bleeding Kansas, with its border ruffians and land speculators, to show how Thomas Ewing Jr. and his family played pivotal roles in the history of Kansas, Missouri, and the nation. This event took place on October 21, 2009, at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th Street, Kansas City, MO.
Amazon link.
26 January 2013
25 January 2013
23 January 2013
Preparing for Draft 2.
Copyright © 2013 Bob R Bogle
I think last night I hit upon a strategy for writing the next iteration of this novel.
The first step will to be to generate a rather massive tree-like structure that connects all my many story threads not in time but in space. What matters most is the intersecting locations, or nodes, where the paths cross. This will take quite some time. Afterwards I'll be rewriting everything to conform to the new blueprint; this will include generating a great deal of new material (although I've had much of it in mind for a few years now), and also transforming much of the material already set down in the first draft into a new form, especially taking expository material and relocating it in the actions and memories of heretofore unwritten scenes and characters. When all this is accomplished, the second draft will be complete.
Eventaully, in a third draft, I should be able to cut and move big chunks of the massive text around into a more aesthetically-pleasing presentation, even as I'm honing and loping down the word count. How long will all this take?
Umm . . . probably a couple years.
(I'm certain to also be writing some other stuff during this time frame.)
21 January 2013
Concerning today's South.
Copyright © 2013 Bob R Bogle
No one needs better health care more than the South, but it fights it off so long as Obama is offering it, its governors turning down funds for Medicaid. This is a region that rejects sex education, though its rate of teenage pregnancies is double and in places triple that of New England. It fights federal help with education, preferring to inoculate its children against science by denying evolution.http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/21/dumb-america/
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