tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post5465772489566909171..comments2024-03-18T20:41:39.140-07:00Comments on C. E. Chaffin's Blog: "Positively Bud": the last 2728 wordsC. E. Chaffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-29380183800042040012008-04-18T12:17:00.000-07:002008-04-18T12:17:00.000-07:00Editors tend to reject this story without comment....Editors tend to reject this story without comment. ;-(<BR/><BR/>Is this "pr" from LA? I thought I received a letter from you wishing no further contact. Thanks so much for posting your letter excerpt, it gives me hope-- I had lost track of it. <BR/><BR/>My novel, which I finished, and of which I had one copy published just to look at it, I decided is beneath comment and is much inferior to this story. I found after many revisions that I didn't seem to care about the characters in my novel, though I thought I did, and that's a death knell. The plot, you may recall, was rather fantastical, but I didn't pull off the human side of it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for commenting, pr!<BR/><BR/>CEC. E. Chaffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-23856642270985702282008-04-18T09:13:00.000-07:002008-04-18T09:13:00.000-07:00This story deserves comments. This is from an e-ma...This story deserves comments. This is from an e-mail I sent you on August 14, 2006.<BR/><BR/>Finished (in one sitting -- or, in my case, one lying) "Positively Bud." Very enjoyable. Your prose carried me along smoothly and effortlessly. I found the issues you explore of interest. You wrote something that has substance -- there's stuff to think about in PB! But you did it with humor. The secondary characters served their purposes quite well (the wife was particularly good). <BR/>Satire -- on What Price Happiness. I once had a psychologist tell me to look in a mirror and state positive affirmations about myself. I felt so foolish doing it I stopped after two tries. At least the Institute puts some teeth into the concept of re-seeing oneself and the world. <BR/>What happened to poor Ken? The way you leave it, there's a touch of the sinister. But was he simply discharged, to carry on his miserably negative existence? <BR/>Of course, Bud goes rapidly from one extreme to another. Although his transformation -- what he becomes -- is ridiculous, it was enjoyably, thoughtfully ridiculous. I felt you knew exactly what you were up to. <BR/>Glad (for selfish purposes) that a story that long can read that fast. <BR/>So, tell me -- have you attempted to have this published? If so, what kind of reactions did you get from editors? <BR/>If you haven't sent it out, you should. <BR/>The difficulties you claim to have with prose are not evident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com