Pursuits in History - Chapter 1 from D'Artagnan Arrives Into Paris in 1640 (Short Story) - 4/9/2024 6:59:15 AM
Thank you, Ronald Hull, for that wonderful and honest review of my first chapter! Yes, I do understand what you are saying, in that if you are going to be a writer, then try to be the best that you can be in your picked genre. For, if we try and only get by with "winging-it" with our written words, the public will be able to tell the difference, and they won't trust you with your next book ... Having said that, you also make sense concerning my picked genre of swashbuckling - not that I agree that it's boring (LOL!), but that I feel that I've been born at the wrong time for such a genre to resonate with the buying public; for, that would have been much more successful during the early teens of the 1900's, all the way to the end of the 1950's. And, Science-Fiction (which I also enjoy) is much more received by today's audience than the old-fashioned swashbuckler. But, who knows! The sword-wielders just may find their way back to the public's attention. I'm in hopes anyways :-) Be that as it may, though, it's still a part of me, and I cannot therefore ignore it. If nothing else, I myself, along with a few others, will simply enjoy it alone if need be (allow me to add another LOL! at this point) ... On a final note, I again thank you for saying that you at least enjoyed my opening presentation. Any writer likes to hear that their work has been well-balanced with their written words.
Pursuits in History - Chapter 1 from D'Artagnan Arrives Into Paris in 1640 (Short Story) - 4/6/2024 9:36:45 AM
When I first read this very well written search into the arrival of the historical d’Artagnan in Paris, one of the subjects of Alexandre Dumas's characters in his novels, I thought it could be a research paper or even a French literature dissertation–totally nonfiction and very, very good.
But you state your preference is to be the writer of "swashbuckling" tales from that time in history when the musket and the sword were about equal and came to fighting of all kinds. So you are, like me, someone who insists on accurate history when writing tales about characters who actually lived in the past and had adventures worth relating and keeping in history as a result by readership keeping the stories alive.
But yours is a genre that I'm not interested in. While growing up, I read some of the novels and watched almost all of the swashbuckling movies. But they have become boring when compared to forward-looking history being done in science fiction, my first love.
But there are many readers who like to harken back to simpler times when heroes had to face, mono to mono, with deadly instruments and see the blood they inflicted as their dastardly opponents fell from either a musket ball or a slice of the sword. So I know, because of the effort you put into writing your latter-day tales, you are a very successful writer in your genre.
Ron
Chapter 3 from Sword Against the Robe (Short Story) - 7/2/2019 9:24:18 AM
I admire your ability to move the plot forward with lively conversation. With so many more words in English these days, we can be more expressive than they could at that time. For example, I see you using the word, dense. I'm sure the word dense came into use only in the twentieth century.
Ron
Adventures of Le Marquis D'Iddelly du Squatt (Short Story) - 12/19/2009 4:05:14 AM
great story. City folk have no idea of red neck fencing. Good thing there are good country folk around to help them.
The Seafarers - A Piratical Poem (Poetry) - 12/10/2009 11:09:57 PM
This was right up my alley as I have always wanted to be a pirate- be it Jack Rackham and his Jolly Roger, or Anne Bonny, I love all things pirate, your poem included!
The Seafarers - A Piratical Poem (Poetry) - 12/8/2009 6:48:39 AM
I love pirate tales and poetry, this was a pleasure to read. Wonderful flow.
