Book Club/Discussion Group: A Piece of "Faction" ... Factual Fiction ... I Wrote

[Tacenda]

33 minutes ago, JulieM said:

Humph!  I thought you'd posted chapter 11 when I saw this 

Ok.  I'll be patient.

 

I know what I'm doing tonight. I feel a little guilty for slowing things up, haha.

[Tacenda]

This is for you Kenngo! Or Eric...

This guy Chase wrote this song and it is a true story about getting his heart broke.

[Kenngo1969]

Are you caught up yet?  If not, I hope you don't mind if I go ahead and post the next installment regardless.  

[Tacenda]

4 minutes ago, Kenngo1969 said:

Are you caught up yet?  If not, I hope you don't mind if I go ahead and post the next installment regardless.  

I'm so sorry, I just started a new job helping my sister in her business. So go ahead and post them! 

[Kenngo1969]

My originally-gargantuan (  ) audience and devoted, adoring fan club (  ) has dwindled, alas!  

Be that as it may: 

https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/fiction-deanna-chapter-11/

https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/fiction-deanna-afterword/

[JulieM]

On September 4, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Kenngo1969 said:

My originally-gargantuan (  ) audience and devoted, adoring fan club (  ) has dwindled, alas!  

Be that as it may: 

https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/fiction-deanna-chapter-11/

https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/fiction-deanna-afterword/

Thanks Kenngo for writing and posting this!  I liked it and especially liked feeling as if I got to know you better 

I won't say more because I don't know if Tacenda has had a chance to read it!

[Kenngo1969]

1 hour ago, JulieM said:

Thanks Kenngo for writing and posting this!  I liked it and especially liked feeling as if I got to know you better   [Emphasis added by Kenngo1969.]

I won't say more because I don't know if Tacenda has had a chance to read it!

Heh.  Maybe too well.  ("Well, Ken, you posted the dang thing!")

Yeah, yeah ... I know, I know!  

[Tacenda]

14 hours ago, JulieM said:

Thanks Kenngo for writing and posting this!  I liked it and especially liked feeling as if I got to know you better 

I won't say more because I don't know if Tacenda has had a chance to read it!

About finished, life all the sudden got busy, sorry.

[Kenngo1969]

4 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

About finished, life all the sudden got busy, sorry.

It happens.   Let me know when you're done, and I'll post a few discussion questions.  (Not sure how extensive the discussion will be but ... )

[Tacenda]

On 9/8/2017 at 11:35 AM, Kenngo1969 said:

It happens.   Let me know when you're done, and I'll post a few discussion questions.  (Not sure how extensive the discussion will be but ... )

Go ahead and post the discussion questions.  I sped read to the end but can go back over again. I absolutely loved the poems at the end. You are quite the writer! Have you ever thought about joining a book writing club? My sister-in-law is and they meet often. And some are able to publish their work, you would do well!

[Kenngo1969]

3 minutes ago, Tacenda said:

Go ahead and post the discussion questions.  I sped read to the end but can go back over again. I absolutely loved the poems at the end. You are quite the writer! Have you ever thought about joining a book writing club? My sister-in-law is and they meet often. And some are able to publish their work, you would do well!

Hmmm.   (We should have a "thinking" emoticon ... )  I'll have to see what might be in the area here.  Let me know if you have any ideas.  Discussion questions to follow shortly. Thanks!  

[Tacenda]

2 hours ago, Kenngo1969 said:

Hmmm.   (We should have a "thinking" emoticon ... )  I'll have to see what might be in the area here.  Let me know if you have any ideas.  Discussion questions to follow shortly. Thanks!  

Check out these sites, looks like fun. I wish I had the talent these people and you have. 

http://uvw.theuaa.org/ 

http://www.uvureview.com/hex/writing-groups-flourish-in-utah-valley/

https://www.meetup.com/find/?allMeetups=false&keywords=writers&radius=25&userFreeform=Provo%2C+UT&mcId=c84601&mcName=Provo%2C+UT&sort=default

http://ldstorymakers.com/

 

[Calm]

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[Kenngo1969]

1 hour ago, Tacenda said:

Check out these sites, looks like fun. I wish I had the talent these people and you have. [Links removed for brevity.]

Don't sell yourself short.  When it comes to writing, people think that there are two kinds of people: Those who can, and those who can't.  They're right about the first part; there are two kinds of people when it comes to writing: Those who do, and those who don't.  

[Kenngo1969]

1 hour ago, Calm said:

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Cat got your tongue, Cal?  

[JulieM]

On September 9, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Tacenda said:

 I absolutely loved the poems at the end. 

I enjoyed the poems too!!

[Kenngo1969]

44 minutes ago, JulieM said:

I enjoyed the poems too!!

I should say that as I have matured and my perspective has broadened a bit (becoming, frankly, a bit more complicated) I'm not sure I buy the whole Saturday's Warrior, I'm-here-in-mortality-looking-for-The-One-I-promised-to-marry-in-premortality thing.  I don't want to dilute the impact of my own poetry/prose.  I'm not saying it never happens, but I don't think it always happens.  I think it's more the exception than the rule, but whaddo I know?  I'm an Eternal Bachelor!  Suffice it to say, it happened in Eric's and Deanna's (albeit fictional) world.

I think President Kimball once said something to the effect that if God were to march all of the men in the world through one door and all of the women in the world through another door and were to pair them up at random, if each member of every pair were committed to having a Celestial marriage, those relationships would endure for eternity.  I realize that throws a cold bucket of water on our notions of romantic love, but if you think about it, that makes sense, at least on one level: How much less pain and heartache would there be in the world if each of us were less concerned about finding The One Who Will Make Us Happy and were, instead, most concerned with making someone else happy ... no matter who it might be?