Agnes by Tony Cochran for May 26, 2024

I suggest you show her the table of content first.

Trout is as “encouraging” as Frank DeGroot!

Well, that was harsh. Even if it’s true.

The next page will go on the bottom of the bird cage

Speaking as one who has never written a novel, but has written numerous academic papers, every writer needs someone like Trout.

Are you going to let one bad review stop you? :)

But the appendix was full of big words.

When I wrote stories, I always had to cut off the first few pages.   Once I got three more stories out of the offcut.

I tried to read Catseye by Andre Norton but couldn’t get past the first couple of pages so I put it down. Years later I got to thinking about how I liked everything else she had written so I went back and started on Chapter Two. It was as good as usual. After several more chapters I went back to Chapter One and could finish it too.

Tough crowd

when it comes to writing, agnes takes a novel approach…

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I suppose Agnes started out with, “It was a dark and stormy night”; not realizing that it has already been written…

Everyone is a critic!

Poor Agnes. She thought she’d finally found her niche. (However you spell it!)