Talking of masterless men, last week, I was reminded of this poem by Jia Dao, a Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.
For ten years I have been polishing this sword;
Its ice-sharp edge has never been put to the test.
Now I am holding it and showing it to you, sir:
Is there anyone suffering from injustice?
It sort of gets you in the mood for a story, right?
Something with action and elegance, maybe?
I found this, here, yesterday, doing a research for something completely different.
I’m just sharing, because it is significant, and on topic, I think, and resonates with me.
Comments welcome.
“There are two paths a samurai can walk: that of a clan member, and that of a ronin, a lonely warrior. The former is highly esteemed in Japan, the latter is bitterly detested. Continue reading
… what’s gonna happen next?
The future is not what it used to be.
Today, a different kind of writing inspiration.
Having published it in All Story in 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs proposed his novel, Tarzan of the Apes to a publisher for a book edition.
This was the reply.
Burroughs would eventually publish twenty-four Tarzan novels in book format.
Maybe it’s because I’m reading The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, maybe it’s because I always get ideas about stories to write while I have stories to write (don’t ask), but I’d really really like to do a dieselpunk number.
The right image for this torrid summer.
It’s pretty obvious there is a story in this shot.
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