Pray for my buddy, Gina Holmes, she travelled to Ohio yesterady, to be with her mom, as her grandmother will be taken off life support. Today's tip comes from Gina's Novel Journey Blog from her interview with author Alton Gansky. Check there this month, as I will be writing about how to write book reviews with a Christian point of view.
Gina: What’s the worst piece of writing advice you’ve ever heard?
Alton: A good writer doesn’t need to rewrite. The ancient Greeks had a word for that kind of advice…baloney.
Alton: A good writer doesn’t need to rewrite. The ancient Greeks had a word for that kind of advice…baloney.
I agree.So I'm driving under the influence of Tylenol to Taste of Hong Kong, to pick up my chicken soup(it's the only thing that relieves my chest congestion) and Blockbuster for a movie for my little nurse, Selah to watch. No Carnival today. And write five questions for my Angela Benson interview, read a chapter of Stacy Hawkins Adams second novel, and oh yes...complete my revision of my novel. Of course there will be plenty of sleeping and sneezing between all that, but I'm about to head to my fuzzy red comfy couch once I return from my fresh air excursion. Fresh air helps my flu, too. It's 60+ degrees down here and sunny.
OT: I want to do a serialized novel starting next year, but I want to do it with other writers, anyone game?
Have you checked our poll? How many times do you rewrite?
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Is Black better than Afro-American? Blacks are American, but far from African. The most tremendously varied group of people in the world. Actually many, many groups that agree with those outside the groups to call themselves "Blacks". Does this make any sense to you?
There has been a debate for many years over African-American, Afro-American or Black as a term to describe the group of people who live and look like me. When you look at African American history, perspectives, and emerging ideology African-American appears to be a safer choice. Not better, but easily translatable. Irish-American, Japanese-American. The only problem is that African connotes an entire continent instead of the distinct countries within it. I could say based on genealogical history many black people from South Georgia came there via South Carolinian plantation owners, who bought slaves in Martinique, who stole Africans from Yoruba. So I could call myself, biafrian-american. But see. I'm not a new immigrant, so I have to say nigerian-american-former, sierre leonne-american. It begins to get out of hand. Because then you also have to look at tribes within these countries to really get it right.
My opinion is that all western countries, including easter European and Asia drop racial classifications. In this present day why is it justified? Country clarification should be enough.
On the other hand, you have a huge enclave of people, who are descendants of stolen Africans mostly west-african and bits of south africa that have formed their own identity in this country despite family and tribe separation, lanquage devaluation, and a whole lot of other big words. Yet, they still found their way back to Africa. So they need African somewhere in there. Right?
Black--the term, black--holds more negative value, because European and American culture has passed down through the years a certain stigma attached to the word. Black cat, black night, black plague, black ball. Just as the latin derivative necro debased the word negro and any other form of the word.
I refer to myself as black more out of being a product of the Black Power Movement more than anything else. My daughter has a latino father. I can't call her black and red. :) I would prefer to call her black, too. But that's me being selfish. She needs to know, identify with and be proud of both roots.
Bottom line...these names have about a double decade shelf life. We'll probably be called Afrimericans by 2007 anyway.
I hope I answered something understandable. For a minute I turned into Jesse Sharpton.
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