Anna Maria Sunset
Watching the waves and the clouds and the sand and the sun move in one rhythm.
August 23, 2009
August 22, 2009
August 18, 2009
Lawton Chiles Leadership Corps
Young people working for a better Florida, building a "constituency of children" in the grand Chiles tradition.
The first conference for the Corps was a smashing success--more than 260 students participated in the two-day event. Former President Bill Clinton addressed the students.
August 16, 2009
August 7, 2009
July 31, 2009
Chopping and Lopping
I think I've mused before about the importance of transitions in writing before--I was working hard last night on finding the separation between the penultimate chapter and the final chapter.
The separation point thematically and chronologically.
It can mean all the difference in the world in clarity and emotional force. Early in the book's days, I had pondered the notion of making self-contained chapters. Soon I rejected that in favor of a regular book form.
The average book reader starts at the first chapter and finishes with the last. Momentum builds to a crescendo; then collapses in decrescendo. And so on and so on...
A book of self-contained chapters is a series of short stories I suppose. For a memoir like Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! that works brilliantly.
But let there be no doubt, one must read the preceding chapters to grieve Chiles' funeral in the final one.
July 27, 2009
Miami!
When I visit Miami in late August, do expect pictures courtesy of my new digital camera. Apart from that, it's gonna be text from here on out...
Two interviews today.
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