POV you are about to skewer me on your lance. i'm not even paying attention just go for it
Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly's Burden; "The Subsistence of Birds,"
“A little heartthrob” The Canadian Goose and Vermilion Flycatcher
John W. Johnson (1937–2021) loved the Lord and began preaching the gospel in his early years. He is known to many as Minister and/or Rev. Johnson. He also loved the Blues. In the 1970s and afterwards, he sold Blues records and tapes on Sundays. He took his Blues Bus, a converted school bus painted blue, down to 14th Street at the Old Maxwell Street Market in Chicago. His big, bright blue bus became a well-known part of the bustling Sunday market, which stretched along little Maxwell Street to east and west of Halsted, on Chicago’s near west side for many decades.
my least favorite kind of author self-insert is the tiny irrelevant pervert creature
to quote a film:
me on the uhh me umm—hold please... just. okay. okay rotate the image +90° such that the um gentleman um here, is on the right. okay? are you there yet? good um.. girl. right so we have you err sorry him—we have him on the right, and all this, i don't know, tubing? just this mass this mess of tubing there on the left. okay? perfect good. good. okay: me on the left
Honcho (1984) - Vol.6 N10
Anni Albers. Open Letter, 1958
Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period