Harry Carton: Blog

I've submitted a new story: Rachmaninov. It's about a classical pianist turned action heroine with a mysterious past.

Hope you like it. There are playlists to youtube videos for those interested.

The story is complete and in editing. When edited, subsequent chapters will be issued.

Wow... who knew that putting a snake into the snowy woods would rouse so many reedurs !! LOL So I fixed it with a new chapter 4. Thanks for writing.

I'm glad Seth the Waabanow has so many friends.

I'm posting a new story... I know, I know... It's been a while and you probably thought I was dead. The rumors of my death etc., etc.

It's Story #2 in the Waabanow series. Hope you like it. I'll post a chapter a day, and there won't be a lot of them, so those of you who can't wait: please wait.

I'm experimenting with a musical theme for each chapter. Let me know what you think. Of course, you don't have to listen to the music.

I'm a nouns guy. I grew up in the newprint business. The news magazine I worked for was heavy on the nouns. They didn't want to hear about the pasty hue of Nixon's visage -- the editors only wanted to hear about his breakdown with Kissinger.

As a result, I don't believe in adjectives. Those are the little words that describe things, as opposed to merely telling what they are. Those adjectives makes stories more interesting to the reader, but make are newspaper article less acceptable.

Now I find myself having to find more THINGS to describe because I can't put enough words on paper -- or in pixels -- to write a decent story.

I recently read a story where the author spent paragraphs and paragraphs to recount in detail an event that I would probably have described thus: "he drove his whatsis into her whosis and they did it for x-teen minutes."

Personally, I think that 7 'graphs to talk about that single event of attempted procreation is overkill. And when it happened again in the next chapter and the next and the next, I found myself skipping over all the extra verbiage. But boiling it down to 14 words doesn't cut it.

Maybe there's something in the middle. Who knows?

I've gotten more feedback from this little story than from anything -- except the IO series. Thanks for writing and I'm pleased to see you like it.

And for those of you who wrote me about the errors in the blurb or word errors in the text: as with my other stories, those were put in intentionally after the edit so sharp-eyed reedurs will find them and not be boared.

I am planning on more Lightfoot stories, since I don't have the emotional strength to write a really long tale. There will be more about the Waabanow coming soon. I gotta write it first -- LOL.