# Re: Home

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Posted by LeviLovR on December 16, 2019 at 13:58:35

In Reply to: Re: Home posted by Ry on December 16, 2019 at 09:26:01:

I like writing too and have since before I was your age. Many of our English words come from Latin so it's good to learn. I took Latin two years in high school. I struggled the first year and the teacher actually told me I needed a lobotomy! LOL! The second year was all translating from Latin to English, mostly mythology. THAT I could do and it was a much better year. I actually wanted to become an English teacher at that time. It never happened, life took me on a different course. Yet looking back I am glad I took those two years of Latin. I learned a lot more than I thought.

Don't worry about your posts being too long. They flow very easily and are easy to read. That's how it should be. Writing is actually having a conversation with your reader, and you write as if you were sitting in the same room talking with us. That's a skill and a talent.

Definitely check out the stories by James Joyce. I think you will enjoy them. You can learn a lot about writing from reading different authors and comparing their styles. I recently read "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo. Talk about verbose! I love the plot and storyline but he definitely goes off on tangents. Of course he wrote during an era in which authors often got paid by the word, so the more words the better. In contrast Charles Dickens wrote approximately during the same time period. His stories were often long and were often printed as serials in newspapers which were read by the general public. He created fantastic characters that the general public could relate to who all contributed to the story line without going off course so to speak.

So keep up the good work and keep writing. Who knows where it wil take you.

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