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Comment on Interview with Robert Keiper by “I am my audience, my admirer and my critic.” Author Robert Wexler and narrator Robert Keiper on narration, theatre, and literature | The Iambik Audiobooks Blog

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:32:47 +0000

[...] Usually here in the Iambikopolis, it’s our narrators asking questions of the authors whose books they’ve performed. In a table-turning twist best described by your humble bloghostess as “thrilling” (honestly), Robert Freeman Wexler, author of The Painting and the City, sends questions to narrator and actor Robert Keiper. The full interview can be found at Robert Wexler’s internet home, The Laconic Writer. [...]

Comment on More Notes On Writing, Again by Robert Freeman Wexler

Robert Freeman Wexler — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:13:33 +0000

That’s going to me my new blog motto: Fighting against the default settings of the group mind, one word at a time!

Comment on More Notes On Writing, Again by Robert Freeman Wexler

Robert Freeman Wexler — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:12:10 +0000

Okay…you’ll have to get back to me on that.

Comment on More Notes On Writing, Again by marly youmans

marly youmans — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:06:32 +0000

I’m trying to remember the name of a foreign writer (Gunilla what?) who I once heard say in grand theatrical sweep, “Coke is not for the aaaaaaaaages.”

Comment on More Notes On Writing, Again by rebeccakuder

rebeccakuder — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:21:23 +0000

The struggle to transcend time (while still being descriptive and specific) and the struggle to make things easy on one’s translator are noble and worth fighting for. (And it’s work to do both these things. It’s work to fight against the default settings of the group mind.)

Comment on More Notes On Writing, Again by Robert Freeman Wexler

Robert Freeman Wexler — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:52:57 +0000

Write as if in the past, but not set in the past. Though not that exactly… The stories I want to tell tend not to involve the latest fads anyway.

Comment on More Notes On Writing, Again by Dale Barnard

Dale Barnard — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:52:41 +0000

After 15 years or more, we know what was truly cool or charming and what was just temporarily cool or charming.

Comment on More Notes On Writing, Again by Dale Barnard

Dale Barnard — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:49:58 +0000

It also seems safer to write in the past (or distant future) because it is not subject to the whims of the ever-changing present. We don’t want to sound out-dated within 5 years because Facebook or YouTube got replaced with something newer.

Comment on Couple of Links by Robert Freeman Wexler

Robert Freeman Wexler — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:25:26 +0000

Hi Marly–yes, read some Aickman.

Comment on Couple of Links by marly youmans

marly youmans — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:11:35 +0000

I’m just the reverse. Have read LeFanu and M. R. James but not Aickman. Sounds interesting.