Comments for kelleyeskridge.com http://kelleyeskridge.com Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:35:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Solitaire Chapter One by Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge « Daughters of Prometheus http://kelleyeskridge.com/solitaire/solitaire-chapter-one/comment-page-1/#comment-32009 Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge « Daughters of Prometheus Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:35:54 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com.fqdns.net/solitaire/solitaire-chapter-one#comment-32009 [...] I’m still mulling over my own list of nominations, but one of them is certainly going to be Solitaire (2002, returning to print next year with Small Beer Press), by Kelley Eskridge. It’s a coming of age story done as psychological thriller: a compelling portrait of a young woman battling both the system and her self after her world collapses, to emerge older, wiser and sadder from an extremely long dark night of the soul. The first chapter is available online here. [...] [...] I’m still mulling over my own list of nominations, but one of them is certainly going to be Solitaire (2002, returning to print next year with Small Beer Press), by Kelley Eskridge. It’s a coming of age story done as psychological thriller: a compelling portrait of a young woman battling both the system and her self after her world collapses, to emerge older, wiser and sadder from an extremely long dark night of the soul. The first chapter is available online here. [...]

]]> Comment on The Talent of the Room by Kelley http://kelleyeskridge.com/other-things/the-talent-of-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-32008 Kelley Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:05:22 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com.fqdns.net/other-things/the-talent-of-the-room#comment-32008 Thanks for your comment, but please be clear that I did not write this essay -- as it says at the top, it's written by Michael Ventura and reposted here with his permission. I don't believe he checks here for comments, so I do not expect that your words will reach him. I think if you re-read the essay, you will see that Ventura is adamant that writers must have a life, must have experience beyond the room in which they work. He's not advocating the kind of isolation you describe. Thanks for your comment, but please be clear that I did not write this essay — as it says at the top, it’s written by Michael Ventura and reposted here with his permission. I don’t believe he checks here for comments, so I do not expect that your words will reach him.

I think if you re-read the essay, you will see that Ventura is adamant that writers must have a life, must have experience beyond the room in which they work. He’s not advocating the kind of isolation you describe.

]]> Comment on The Talent of the Room by Teuthan http://kelleyeskridge.com/other-things/the-talent-of-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-32007 Teuthan Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:59:22 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com.fqdns.net/other-things/the-talent-of-the-room#comment-32007 Actually, i liked your essay, even if it gave me some kind of depressive attitude for writing... However, my room is the whole world, and I like to go out there. The people, the smells, what I can see with my eyes, what I can feel with my heart, what I can understand with my brain. Writing is about the world, even if it's fiction. And no, you can't tell about the world, if you don't go there, and taste it. Finally, I hope you didn't meant a non-abort, endless isolation in that room. Because, that's madness, and It will get you crazy, even if you're pretty antisocial, that's against the very human nature. I believe writers have to meet the world, and go out there. If only, because the best ideas come at the most unlikely places. Actually, i liked your essay, even if it gave me some kind of depressive attitude for writing…
However, my room is the whole world, and I like to go out there. The people, the smells, what I can see with my eyes, what I can feel with my heart, what I can understand with my brain.
Writing is about the world, even if it’s fiction. And no, you can’t tell about the world, if you don’t go there, and taste it.
Finally, I hope you didn’t meant a non-abort, endless isolation in that room. Because, that’s madness, and It will get you crazy, even if you’re
pretty antisocial, that’s against the very human nature.
I believe writers have to meet the world, and go out there. If only, because the best ideas come at the most unlikely places.

]]> Comment on Divers by barbara sanchez http://kelleyeskridge.com/divers/comment-page-1/#comment-31975 barbara sanchez Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:16:54 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=8120#comment-31975 Diving: contradictorally a very disciplined impulse. Look before you leap, and if you look, you may not leap. Diving: contradictorally a very disciplined impulse. Look before you leap, and if you look, you may not leap.

]]> Comment on Divers by Jude http://kelleyeskridge.com/divers/comment-page-1/#comment-31974 Jude Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:56:11 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=8120#comment-31974 I gasped just after the beginning of the dive when I realised there was no visible pool. Very cool Kelly... I gasped just after the beginning of the dive when I realised there was no visible pool. Very cool Kelly…

]]> Comment on And Salome Danced by Kelley http://kelleyeskridge.com/dangerous-space/and-salome-danced/comment-page-1/#comment-31965 Kelley Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:25:52 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com.fqdns.net/dangerous-space/and-salome-danced#comment-31965 Thank you so much! Time doesn't matter: connection does. I am glad you liked it, and I hope people will be liking it for many years to come. Thanks for taking the time to say so, Thank you so much! Time doesn’t matter: connection does. I am glad you liked it, and I hope people will be liking it for many years to come. Thanks for taking the time to say so,

]]> Comment on And Salome Danced by Roz http://kelleyeskridge.com/dangerous-space/and-salome-danced/comment-page-1/#comment-31963 Roz Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:36:15 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com.fqdns.net/dangerous-space/and-salome-danced#comment-31963 I know your story has been up for several years now, but I just came across it. I wanted to let you know that I loved it! Thank you for sharing. I know your story has been up for several years now, but I just came across it. I wanted to let you know that I loved it! Thank you for sharing.

]]> Comment on Well, now by barbara sanchez http://kelleyeskridge.com/well-now/comment-page-1/#comment-31952 barbara sanchez Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:54:34 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=8108#comment-31952 Go Michael! Go Michael!

]]> Comment on Well, now by Michael McDaniel http://kelleyeskridge.com/well-now/comment-page-1/#comment-31950 Michael McDaniel Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:34:49 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=8108#comment-31950 Hope Dies Last"! I'm still hopeful too. Hope Dies Last”! I’m still hopeful too.

]]> Comment on Well, now by barbara sanchez http://kelleyeskridge.com/well-now/comment-page-1/#comment-31949 barbara sanchez Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:48:59 +0000 http://kelleyeskridge.com/?p=8108#comment-31949 No, but it's Ruth Bader-Ginsberg's, Sonia Sotomayor's and Elena Kagan's supreme court, so there's still hope. No, but it’s Ruth Bader-Ginsberg’s, Sonia Sotomayor’s and Elena Kagan’s supreme court, so there’s still hope.

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