#doris betts

[pamietniko]

This year I'm really trying to make more of an effort to mindfully consume media. Its difficult but my hope is that with perseverance I will learn how to better fill my time with what I find interesting, as opposed to doomscrolling. One thing I'd love to do is read more about the deep south. I live here and genuinely find the history and culture interesting, so I figure its a good place to start.

[courtycupcake]

Whatever you write, don’t write that you get over this because there are some mornings that I get up and it just happened an hour ago.

Advice Given to Doris Betts by a Minister

[gridleyfires]

The Long and Short of Story

The Long and Short of Story

Doris Betts, my mentor, told me one day that you’re either innately a short story writer or a novelist. She didn’t mean one couldn’t be the other; she simply meant that one’s nature leaned toward either the short story or the novel.

I’ve quoted Lawrence Block below on the rigors of novel writing. I don’t necessarily agree to his analogies here, but he has given you the perspective of a novelist.

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[chigurhtits]

His hand is warmer than mine - unscientific, I know; but I can feel old sunlight pooled in his flesh and my hand feels wintry by his.

Beasts of the Southern Wild - Doris Betts

[chigurhtits]

She'd need it. There was nothing in her skull but filtered air, stored in a meticulous honeycomb.

Beasts of the Southern Wild - Doris Betts

[savedby-thebell-jar]

"How one week he waded through the creek and it was water, and the next week cold molasses. How he'd lay awake a year between sundown and sunup, and in the morning I'd be a day older and he'd be three hundred and sixty-five."