Philosophy Friday

It's a cold, gray, gloomy morning in Maryland so I offer you a
GOOD VIEW















GOOD STUFF
The scale reading isn't any lower, but it's not higher either
Making progress of my grandmother's estate stuff
Found out two of my books were translated into German
Discovered a very nice review of DELIGHT on the B&N.com website
Stayed out too late and drank too much wine at the neighborhood Ladies Night

GOOD ADVICE
"Storytelling is an elaborate form of lying. Both fiction and story are euphemisms for lies. It is the concern of us liars to give our falsehoods the semblence of truth, and a storyteller uses every device at his command to instill in his fiction the verisimilitude that convinces the reader" - Oakley Hall, page 57

"A setting, deftly portrayed, not only tells us where we are but gives the story a sense of truth, the credibility we speak of as verismilitude. It does wonders for that troublesome disbelief and the reader's willing suspension thereof." - John Leggett, page 74

Both quotes are taken from SNOOPY'S GUIDE TO THE WRITING LIFE, a book with good advice but better comic strips