The Writing Post

Reflections: Dec. 3rd, 2023

The Writing Post

December 2, 2024

“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”― Agatha Christie

Greetings! I changed up a few posts this week to fall more in line with a sequence of posts that I enjoy writing: Reading of…, Building Background, Writing Craft, Poetry/Short Story Analysis, Book List, Literary Quotes, and Reflections. With that said, I do enjoy some of the other posts (Literature in Film, Folklore, etc.), which I will sprinkle throughout in the future.

Without further adieu, let us reflect on last week’s posts and look ahead at what’s coming for next week!

Last Week

We began the week by reading the final chapters in The Scarlet Pimpernel, chapters 25-31, and learned of the outcome of Sir Percy and Chauvelin’s conflict (Sir Percy escaped with Marguerite and ventured back toward England). Additionally, I reposted a reedited article about gothic elements in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and we analyzed “A Live-Oak Leaf” by Clark Ashton Smith.

Furthermore, we spent time examining the conventions of the romance genre in “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, and we also learned a great deal about swashbuckling adventure in narratives. Similarly, we examined how to write action in a book or story.

For the first of December, we reanalyzed Yrsa Daley-Ward’s phenomenal poem “what love isn’t,” which captures the essence of the good, the bad, and the ugly of being in love. Lastly, we started a newish sort of post for December (and forever), which is a writing-related quote from a famous author, which I will continue to post in order to solicit the opinions of bloggers everywhere.

Next Week:

Looking ahead, we have much to read and study!