Thank you so much, Adam! What an honor! I love this new adventure of helping writers and readers. Hearing the author read her own words is so intimate.
No! Thank you, Nina.! As you know I adore Stunning Sentences even if it is a weekly case study in things I don't know about writing – but it's also crazy fun if more than a little dangerous to my schedule.
But your own writing is very, very special indeed. It's a delight that you agreed to be first out of the gate here, and I hope to have you back at some point as well.
I remember this scene well, and how Nina withheld Hazel’s identity as a nun until I had already built a solid image of the sisterly bond. Once revealed, it was like descending in an elevator too quickly, the weight of this bond suddenly so much more complex and intriguing. This entire book (I know Nina calls it a collection but with the characters and their overlapping lives it reads more like a novel) is a sublime read.
It does read more like a novel. I think if it was called a novel, the structure would be considered a creative approach and no one would think differently. I'm actually a little confused when it is called a short story collection!
It is so hard. I'm like a tippy scale constantly balancing hope and despair, back and forth. Thank you so much for reading my collection, Julie, and opening up a big space on your substack to talk about it. Grateful. And grateful for Adam and his new wildly exciting opportunity on substack. Thank you!
Thank you so much, Adam! What an honor! I love this new adventure of helping writers and readers. Hearing the author read her own words is so intimate.
No! Thank you, Nina.! As you know I adore Stunning Sentences even if it is a weekly case study in things I don't know about writing – but it's also crazy fun if more than a little dangerous to my schedule.
But your own writing is very, very special indeed. It's a delight that you agreed to be first out of the gate here, and I hope to have you back at some point as well.
I remember this scene well, and how Nina withheld Hazel’s identity as a nun until I had already built a solid image of the sisterly bond. Once revealed, it was like descending in an elevator too quickly, the weight of this bond suddenly so much more complex and intriguing. This entire book (I know Nina calls it a collection but with the characters and their overlapping lives it reads more like a novel) is a sublime read.
It does read more like a novel. I think if it was called a novel, the structure would be considered a creative approach and no one would think differently. I'm actually a little confused when it is called a short story collection!
I call it a "bag" in honor of Ursula K. Le Guin's "Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction." The need for different kinds of stories, different structures.
Kimberly,
Thank you for this! It means a great deal to me. Grateful.
Nina
Loved this story. I feel like Eleanor much of the time.
It is so hard. I'm like a tippy scale constantly balancing hope and despair, back and forth. Thank you so much for reading my collection, Julie, and opening up a big space on your substack to talk about it. Grateful. And grateful for Adam and his new wildly exciting opportunity on substack. Thank you!
Oh, well done Adam,
a great grand opening! Best ( of luck! )
“If you build it, they will come”
(credits go to the Bible, Noah ‘hears a suggestion’)
From Noah's lips to God's ears.