As all the characters are plugged into the orphidnet mind network, their experiences are to some extent internal, and can only be accessed by describing what’s going on in their minds. The reason I bought the Gardner book is that I’ve been thinking about point of view to use for Postsingular, my seventeenth novel. (Remember I was a math major, not an English major.) Oh, I’ve looked through Strunk and White as well. I’ve never read a whole book on writing before I read part of Annie Lamotte’s Bird by Bird some years ago, but got tired of it: too much Annie and not enough notes on craft. Gardner was a novelist in his own right, also famous as a creative writing teacher. I’m almost done reading this great little book on writing, John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Written 1983, Vintage Books edition 1991). We worked our way down to below Castle Rock Falls and back up. It was a beautiful green day, like descending into the Hollow Earth. I went for a 60th birthday hike up at Castle Rock Park on Skyline Drive yesterday with Emilio, a software engineer whom I initially got to know as an occasional commenter on this blog, and who I then got to know better as a student in my Computers and Philosophy class at SJSU last fall.
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