Maxim Gorky and The Man Who Loved Owls: notes to self

My reading this weekend has included reading Maxim Gorky's diary excerpts. An early chapter of this book is devoted to "fire" and he writes descriptions of fire that include describing a growing fire using images of bugs and snakes. Might be useful rereading for "Burning Time".

I finished writing the first draft of The Man Who Loved Owls, and after rereading that draft, after reading Gorky, I felt the inadequacies of my story. After I got over feeling inadequate, I reread the story again, and found a few places where I could build the story. I can see what it needs, and will have to focus on a couple of crucial sections of the story: the final conversation that the Man has with the Owl, a more developed role for the poet, and a justification for why the Man is living in the Poet's barn.

I would like to finish first drafts of On First Meeting Sainkho; Dr. Kaj Bothund; Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche: an Essaie; Anglican Church Hymnal; Mavis' Painting; Pullers; Return to Petersburg; The Maker; The Poet. And, I really should get back to A Wrinkle in the Laws of Gravity.