[stylist] Happy New Year - a new blog article

Tue Jan 7 20:10:02 UTC 2014

I don't know if it's rare. I think we tend to write from our gender
perspective just because that's familiar, what we know, but authors do
attempt writing from a different gender point of view than their own,
and I wouldn't say it's rare. Perhaps not common, but not rare.

Some books that come to mind are:
John Cleland- Fanny Hill
J. K. Rowling- Harry Potter
Toni Morrison- Song of Solomon and Home

There are more, but my mind is zapped from running after a 16-month-old
monkey all day, smile.

Bridgit
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True, but I think it's a very rare author indeed who can totally divorce
themselves from whatever gender sensibility they have. Donna

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Pollpeter
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You also have to consider that a female author may write from a male
perspective and vice-versus. Author doesn't always denote narrator
gender.

I read anything and everything, so I don't pay attention to gender
whether it be the author or narrator voice.

Sometimes gender depends on point of view too. Say I write a male main
character but in third person omniscient, the voice won't necessarily be
a male one.

Bridgit

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Leslie Newman
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Lynda

"..."The crow always knows when the snow will be arriving..."

Another thing of black. Another very colorful post. And one thing that
kept floating through my thoughts as I read it was the voice, its tone,
its strains of reflections -- so gender specific, female. And I say to
myself, caution Bobby Boy, starting to draw gender lines on -- anything
artistic may not be -- at first understood, accepted. But -- I'm not
feeling any good or bad intent, just like hey -- thank god there are
both male and female, perspectives-voices-forms-etc.

Question- who here consciously chooses to read books written by a man,
versus one written by a woman? Again, talking about the tone, the
perspective, and all else that may be considered an identifiable gender
difference? (I personally find myself reading more books by men. But not
exclusively; I'm reading a Sue Grafton in Braille, "W is for Wasted."
And I have other favorite female authors, too. But more male favorites.)
natural I'd guess, me being a guy.

One last gender thing: Way down in my being I mourn the loss of what we
once saw as the prevailing essence of life, the Mother figure, and how
we once honored Mother Earth  .

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Hi Donna,
I loved the description of the ice sounds. I have always lived on the
banks of the Connoquenessing Creek in western PA.  Our house is situated
on the ridge above the creek in an area that is used for white water
kyacking. I have watched the seasons changing here my entire life, form
one shore of this creek to another depending on where we lived at the
time. We recently sold three of our properties on this creek, and we
still have the one our house is on an one other one just up the road
from here. As a child I played on the ice in winter all the time. I know
exactly the crackling and booming sounds you described - it is an
exciting moment to be present when the ice breaks - it is just a minute
that you can experience that powerful roar.  At other times, we have
endured the many floods that happen after the ice leaves and the rains
begin.  There is a life here on the creek like no other. Summers are
long, with people fishing through the nights, and swimming in the same
places where our ancestors played in the water on hot summer days.  My
dogs and I walk beside the creek several times a day and I never tire of
hearing the music of the water as we walk along on our pathway through
the trees.  You brought back so many good memories to me this morning.
Thanks!

I pray that Rich improves with each new day in this new year.  Happy New
Year to you all, and I hope each of you finds just the right "word" you
need each day!  Smile.

Lynda
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> Lynda,
> Happy New Year! That is quite a list of goals and determinations! I 
> had to laugh, because I just unsubscribed to a list that was toxic to 
> me -- I didn't tell them that, of course.
>
> So, you've changed to Word Press? I remember (or think I do) that you 
> were on Blogger or BlogSpot. I'm wondering how you like WP.org. I'm on

> WP.com, and I'm still not sure what the difference is, but I can't log

> in to your site using my wp.com info.
>
> BTW, it's been so cold here that we are experiencing a wonderful 
> winter phenomenon -- the thunderous cracking and creaking of the ice 
> on our pond. It's always different and totally unpredictable. Once, we

> were actually down at the shore to experience what sounded like a slow

> underground train, as the ice cracked from one side of the pond to the

> other. Of course, the crack
> isn't always visible, and when there's a half a foot of ice on the
pond,
> it
> doesn't create a danger, but the sound is incredible. Sometimes, it's
like

> a
> huge zipper. The long rumbling that travels from side to side reminds 
> me of the Tennyson line in The Lady of Shallott -- approx "the mirror
cracked
> from
> side to side" which happens when she is no longer able to resist the 
> temptation to look out of her window instead of viewing the knights in
the
> safety of the mirror.
>
> Anyway, may you flourish in 2014.
> Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Lambert
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 5:46 PM
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>
> I hope you enjoy my new blog article. I spent today working on it 
> while the snow is flying outside. It's a blizzard here.  Awesome! I 
> just LOVE
Winter
> time in PA.
> I will post the blog link below - hope I get it right - I am not very
good
> with Word Press yet, but I am working on it.
>
> Lynda
>
> http://lyndalambert.com/wordpress/?p=227
>
> Lynda McKinney Lambert, MFA
> Artist, Educator, Author
> 104 River Road, Ellwood City, PA 16117 
> http://www.lyndalambert.com/wordpress
>
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