September 23, 2009 at 6:45 am (panflick)
Tags: hero, heroine, mildred panflick, novel, woman
Read Panflick 1/5 http://bit.ly/HdeIM Mildred had a beauty … evanescent, airy, though hardly etherial. Contents: http://bit.ly/4POmR
There are times when I think that the most real character of “Panflick” is the mother of Adam, Mildred. We will get glimpses of her and some sense of her greatness and her prevarications. Is she fully developed? Not in the sense that Adam is. Molly Bloom to Bloom. In how many great novels is a principal woman the one the novel should/could have been about from the start?
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September 21, 2009 at 9:15 pm (panflick)
Tags: Fact, fiction, memoir, novel
From Panflick 3/11 http://bit.ly/17tDtr Offer disclaimers if anyone suggests that this is not pure fiction. Contents: http://bit.ly/4POmR
Fact, Fiction, Memoir, Novel
My own approach to writing a saga like Panflick is simply to let impulse rule. Forexample, Joe McCarthy is someone I saw close up. There is no need to fictionalize him in the novel. The celebrity who was rude to me when I was a kid is not identified in the novel. But anyone with memory of that time might be able to fathom who it is. The Franklin family is fictionalized and is actually a combination of two streams that are history. Their presentation in the novel is fiction. However Alger Hiss and Fred Schuman are real individuals. As a memoir this is a fiction. As fiction it is based on reality. As a novel it is obligated to entertain, move and allow the reader to enjoy it as fiction. As fact, the facts revealed are deeper than I might be able to reveal or even access in a mere memoir.
My own approach to writing a saga like Panflick is simply to let impulse rule.
For example, Joe McCarthy is someone I saw close up. There is no need to fictionalize him in the novel.
The celebrity who was rude to me when I was a kid is not identified in the novel. But anyone with memory of that time might be able to fathom who it is.
The Franklin family is fictionalized and is actually a combination of two streams that are history. Their presentation in the novel is fiction. However Alger Hiss and Fred Schuman are real individuals.
As a memoir this is a fiction. As fiction it is based on reality. As a novel, it is obligated to entertain, move and allow the reader to enjoy it as fiction.
As fact, the facts revealed are deeper than I might be able to reveal or even access in a mere memoir.
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September 15, 2009 at 11:55 pm (panflick)
Tags: black humor, creative writing, fiction, literature, meetings, novel, panflick, patrimony, prose
Panflick #scr4 1/5 http://bit.ly/HdeIM Meeting Mildred, Oxlie Patrimony, Mldred’s Mother Millicent http://bit.ly/4POmR
EXCERPT
On one such walk, he saw fourteen year old Mildred Oxlie and his life was forever changed. Mildred was standing in a shady yard in front of a substantial house on Mill Street behind a fragrant box hedge. The sun peeked through the leafy branches of a large maple and illuminated her perfect cheek. Melchizedek’s mind flashed angels in paintings, serene and self-contained. He was not entirely wrong. Mildred had a beauty about her, evanescent, airy, though hardly etherial. No one was ever more anchored to the ground
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September 15, 2009 at 11:31 pm (panflick)
Tags: black humor, creative writing, fiction, literature, novel, orphaned, panflick, prose
Panflick Online Novel 1/3 http://ow.ly/pyVQ Calista Briefly Wed, Melchizedek Born & Orphaned http://ow.ly/pyVR
EXCERPT:
At 22, Calista Anderson was already a woman of great accomplishment and classic beauty. She had completed her formal education at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. There she learned the importance of science and the shakiness of religion.She also cultivated a talent for art. She could, with a few strokes, create watercolors of Watteau-like transparency, but simpler. Simplicity was her signature. She kept her work neatly in portfolios whose contents grew daily.
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September 15, 2009 at 11:20 pm (panflick)
Tags: archives, black humor, fiction, irony, library, literature, novel, panflick
Panflick Chapter One: Fiction as strange as the truth. http://bit.ly/ni5iz (Irony, library, literature, novel, Panflick) All Chapters: http://ow.ly/pyUP
CHAPTER ONE EXCERPT:
In what follows, I have heeded time-tested maxims regarding the novel and allowed my imagination to paint liberally the areas where archival information is nonexistent. Such liberties as I might take are nothing compared to some of the actualities I will describe. Still I shall try to make fiction as strange as the truth
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