Kevin's Watch

One of your discussion threads inspired the new title, but otherwise it's a short story collection that I spent 30 years writing and editing. Meanwhile, you can pick up a free copy and then throw it away in a matter of minutes.

www.smashwords.com/books/view/17846

A sad post, it encourages me to read the short story collection. We'll see if I have much to say when I finish it.

Pulling the discussion on back to the topic of this excellent Forum, I wrote my Chronicles before hearing of either The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant or The Chronicles of Narnia.

But my book does owe something to this Forum. It spent 30 years being entitled The Chronicles of a Madman. But then the "your name in the Land" thread here inspired me to call myself The Lost Soul, and then to retitle my book mere hours before its re-release. It's burned through more publishers than Ravers have hosts.

Oh, rereading The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever is very different this evening, because when I read it before, my little brother hadn't killed himself yet.

Rereading The First Chronicles reminded me of my lost innocence, but we won't go there.

Thanks for noticing me...

You might get more from this topic in the Hall of Gifts, which is sorta our forum for...well...writing stuff. (Let me or a mod know if you'd like it moved).

We also have a writers workshop type forum, where the writers among us can brainstorm and crit and whatever else it is we're supposed to do in there. It's hidden though for rights/public domain reasons, but you can request membership from the thread about it in the Hall of Gifts.

As for that last line...ever notice that innocence is only valuable in its absence?

--A

Avatar wrote:As for that last line...ever notice that innocence is only valuable in its absence?

--A

How exactly can one appreciate what one has never lost, eh? I don't know if that's entirely true. I am unexposed to some experiences and appreciate that I have not been exposed to them.

I read the first 20 pages or so and think I will continue later. It's kind of raw in terms of its import, I tend to prefer books that deal with similar themes but in a more subtle way. I don't mean that as sheer negative criticism becaues subtlety is not really an inherently good or bad characteristic, just something I tend to value in reading.

Spoiler

I liked how, after talking his bro out of suicide, the two characters begin to "reforge" a relationship of jocularity which may lead to further hiding of pain down the road

Holsety wrote:

Avatar wrote:As for that last line...ever notice that innocence is only valuable in its absence?

How exactly can one appreciate what one has never lost, eh? I don't know if that's entirely true. I am unexposed to some experiences and appreciate that I have not been exposed to them.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines that innocence is not actually good for you. In fact, it can be bad. We might appreciate it in children for example, but once you're older, if you're still innocent, you get called naive instead...

--A