Re: Nearly Salinger-related
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:16:10 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/21/99 8:12:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
verona_beach@hotpop.com writes:
<< P.S. I wrote my first significant major work at age 9 and my second, a full
length novel, at twelve. While I sure don't claim to be any kind of genius
(a genius would get more work done (: ) I know that if you come home from
school every day and write, buy a good thesaurus and spend the eleven years
leading up to it reading voraciously and - yeah, you could write a 20,000
word letter to your parents at age 7!
Camille >>
I'm glad your brought this up. When I read the post you quoted I wanted to
reply to it too, but didn't...till now :)
I've recently started reading The Inverted Forest. The child's voice is much
more believable there -- from sentence structure to spelling to the concerns
expressed by the child. I've only read a few pages into it, now, this is
just my first impression.
But it was worlds different from Hapworth. That's the thing...
Jim