Comments on: The Element of Style—Blades of Glory http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/ ...and anarchy ensues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Katie http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Katie Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:19:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-798 I know this post is kind-of late, but I just found your blog, after reading your excerpt (which WAS beautiful writing) after seeing mention of your book on Kristen Nelson's blog... and I'm another kindred spirit! I am soooo picky in which books I really enjoy, and THIS is what so many authors miss! The words just don't FLOW! The sentences are full of beautiful words, but they're just not put together beautifully.<br/><br/>And I, too, thought of skaing... G&G's performance, too... abosolute poetry on ice, so perfect and so beautiful.<br/><br/>As for myself... now I have to see if I can write beatifully and get published some day, like you! Thanks for speaking up on this issue! I know this post is kind-of late, but I just found your blog, after reading your excerpt (which WAS beautiful writing) after seeing mention of your book on Kristen Nelson’s blog… and I’m another kindred spirit! I am soooo picky in which books I really enjoy, and THIS is what so many authors miss! The words just don’t FLOW! The sentences are full of beautiful words, but they’re just not put together beautifully.

And I, too, thought of skaing… G&G’s performance, too… abosolute poetry on ice, so perfect and so beautiful.

As for myself… now I have to see if I can write beatifully and get published some day, like you! Thanks for speaking up on this issue!

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And even then it might not be thinking blogs. Because I like to turn off my brain as often as I can. :-)

]]> By: Catherine Avril Morris http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-754 Catherine Avril Morris Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:47:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-754 Yeah...I wanna build the Taj Mahal, too. Your writing is so beautiful, I KNOW you can do it. :)<br/><br/>I'm reading another Judith Ivory right now--The Proposition. Talk about building Taj Mahal after Taj Mahal. She's my new absolute fave.<br/><br/>I hope school is finishing up well for you! Yeah…I wanna build the Taj Mahal, too. Your writing is so beautiful, I KNOW you can do it. :)

I’m reading another Judith Ivory right now–The Proposition. Talk about building Taj Mahal after Taj Mahal. She’s my new absolute fave.

I hope school is finishing up well for you!

]]> By: Helen Ginger http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-753 Helen Ginger Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-753 Hi Sherry.<br/>I enjoy reading your blog and have awarded you the Thinking Blogger Award and tagged you to select five thinking bloggers. You can read the details on my blog at http://straightfromhel.blogspot.com/2007/04/award-for-straight-from-hel.html.<br/>Helen Ginger Hi Sherry.
I enjoy reading your blog and have awarded you the Thinking Blogger Award and tagged you to select five thinking bloggers. You can read the details on my blog at http://straightfromhel.blogspot.com/2007/04/award-for-straight-from-hel.html.
Helen Ginger

]]> By: Adrian Swift http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-752 Adrian Swift Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:17:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-752 Excellent post -- and another reason why, if you visit my site, you will see that I have tagged you with the Thinking Blog Award!<br/><br/>Thanks for blogging, and please keep at it!<br/><br/>Adrian<br/><br/><a HREF="http://adriansnovel.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Chronicling the Novel....</a> Excellent post — and another reason why, if you visit my site, you will see that I have tagged you with the Thinking Blog Award!

Thanks for blogging, and please keep at it!

Adrian

Chronicling the Novel….

]]> By: Jennifer Shirk http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-751 Jennifer Shirk Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:27:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-751 Wow. Well said and well skated.<br/><br/>Their skating was absolutely beautiful. Wow. Well said and well skated.

Their skating was absolutely beautiful.

]]> By: Beth http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-750 Beth Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:40:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-750 You don't know me, but in this, at least, we are kindred spirits. You don’t know me, but in this, at least, we are kindred spirits.

]]> By: Lenora Bell http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Lenora Bell Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:28:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-749 Hi Sherry, I followed CM's link to get here. What a beautiful and impassioned post. I loved your point about the extra work needed to make a book gleam. I appreciate the lyricism of romance authors like Pam Rosenthal, and I can't wait to savor your books. <br/><br/>I am a worshipper at the altar of splendid genre fiction, as well as an aspiring architect thereof. And when I buy a Taj Mahal, I recognize it, and fall to my knees. Hi Sherry, I followed CM’s link to get here. What a beautiful and impassioned post. I loved your point about the extra work needed to make a book gleam. I appreciate the lyricism of romance authors like Pam Rosenthal, and I can’t wait to savor your books.

I am a worshipper at the altar of splendid genre fiction, as well as an aspiring architect thereof. And when I buy a Taj Mahal, I recognize it, and fall to my knees.

]]> By: Janine http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-748 Janine Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:47:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-748 Thanks for mentioning my entreaty. You're right that quoting Fitzgerald was unfair (I think I said so in the body of the piece, too). Still, once you've tasted ambrosia it's impossible not to compare other foods to it.<br/><br/>I love your figure skating metaphor for genre fiction. It is so apt, because as you say, a great romance needs elements as well as artistry. I wish I could get the You Tube clip to play on my monitor, because I love figure skating, too. Thanks for mentioning my entreaty. You’re right that quoting Fitzgerald was unfair (I think I said so in the body of the piece, too). Still, once you’ve tasted ambrosia it’s impossible not to compare other foods to it.

I love your figure skating metaphor for genre fiction. It is so apt, because as you say, a great romance needs elements as well as artistry. I wish I could get the You Tube clip to play on my monitor, because I love figure skating, too.

]]> By: Sherry Thomas http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Sherry Thomas Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:47:00 +0000 http://www.sherrythomas.com/blog/2007/04/22/the-element-of-style%e2%80%94blades-of-glory/#comment-747 cm,<br/><br/>My snail-crossing-a-garden-path is "He was a burning pyre of concupiscence in a sarcophagus of despair".<br/><br/>I know of no one who doesn't despair when reading that. :-)<br/><br/>Thanks for the post.<br/><br/>Sherry cm,

My snail-crossing-a-garden-path is “He was a burning pyre of concupiscence in a sarcophagus of despair”.

I know of no one who doesn’t despair when reading that. :-)

Thanks for the post.

Sherry

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