Following The Green Light At Gatsby's Pier
"We are saving ourselves through the words," says Eleanor, the leading lady of this novel-in-progress. At Post No. 500, this exploration into the creative process -- which includes plenty of distractions/tangents /thoughts & rants by Eleanor, her Biographer and selected guest artists -- is complete. We aren't sure what happens after Post No. 500, and we dare not jump ahead of ourselves.
There will be the occasional typo (as Eleanor points out), and much of this is intended to be "original draft" -- what comes out of our mouths (heads) first, and then set down in that order. Not all of it will be included in the novel, but all of it is happening in real time.
The Postings:
"... all the things you could have done"
Eleanor to her Biographer: "Just think of all the things you could have done if you had stopped when you were batting 1.000."
Her Biographer looks at her. "That's not fair. When was I ever batting 1.000?"
Eleanor: "It was more than once. You only get so many chances."
ELEANOR says: "Please turn the page. Keep reading."
For more of Eleanor and her Biographer -- as well as the work of our many guest artists -- check out the older postings. "Everything is part of the process, and the process is the journey," Eleanor says.
2 comments:
There have been 84 players who have batted 1.000 as a career average. You have heard of none of them. This is not what you want.
history dictates that, yes, if you connect that often, you're liable to be not only anonymous, but quite irrelevant. i say, aim for .350-ish and a good two-and-a-half decades in the league.
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