Comments for The official blog of fiction writer DBA Lehane

Comment on It’s been a while by Suzan Abrams

Suzan Abrams — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:58:58 +0000

Hi Darren,
Have missed your writing and also your friendship.
Am about to step out the door now so will read your short story later in the day.

Comment on New story available at Short Short Stories by Alireza Mahmoodi Iranmehr

Alireza Mahmoodi Iranmehr — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:24:45 +0000

Dear Sir/Madam:

Tehran Art & Cultural Complex is absolutely an independent and private sector. This complex, after experiencing the story writing contest (Discovery of the Moment) which was well received among the Farsi speaking readers, the international contest of (Intellectual World) will feature texts both in Farsi and English.
This competition features in the genre of short-short stories, is a common language of all the people in regard of admiring the literature, because the story in any culture and geographic could reveal the tangible image of life, reflection, and dreams of an individual. By intellectual world in this contest, means all internal and spiritual perception of a human being, therefore for those which is conceivable, could be the subject of short-short stories in this competition. Participating in this contest or helping to the intelligence is an assistant to the literature.
For more information, you can refer to the contest invitation, which the link is as below:
http://www.iran-tcac.com/PageEn/?id=728

Secretary of the Festival
Alireza Mahmoodi Iranmehr

Comment on Lucky for some! by sarah peach

sarah peach — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:28:56 +0000

hey there – what’s your email please? I wanted to let you know about the Warchild book you were in last year

best

Peach

Comment on Lucky for some! by legendoftheprotectors

legendoftheprotectors — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:08:02 +0000

Congrats. I found your blog at my friend Damyanti’s. Look forward to reading on.

Comment on Another Day, Another Story by strugglingwriter

strugglingwriter — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:17:13 +0000

I liked it. Also, I’m happy for Mum. Glad the old tennis racket has a few more swings remaining

Comment on Straight Up Congratulations by Tania Hershman

Tania Hershman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:19:23 +0000

PS And thank you so much for buying my book, that means a lot. I hope you enjoy it.

Comment on Straight Up Congratulations by Tania Hershman

Tania Hershman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:18:45 +0000

Thank you so much for mentioning me on your blog, and for stopping by mine. It’s very exciting! Good luck to you for NaNoWriMo, hope it’s going well.

Tania

Comment on Why am I doing NaNoWriMo? by drewgum

drewgum — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:10:37 +0000

No doubt, there will be bad days. I think the sense of achievement you will feel at the end will be worth it. And I think you learn something from all writing.

Comment on Why am I doing NaNoWriMo? by strugglingwriter

strugglingwriter — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:52:46 +0000

I’m not making it to the 50,000 words this year. I made it last year to prove I could do it.

This year, I may not make it, but my story is better.

One of the main reasons I’m doing it is to jumpstart a novel and talk about writing with a bunch of other writers.

Comment on Why am I doing NaNoWriMo? by Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:13:20 +0000

Respect, Lehane! I think this nano-writing is masochism. Michael Frayn, in one of his Observer columns of 1964 observed satirically “It’s one of the saddest things in the world that so much which is a pleasure to write is a pain in the neck to read.”

Yours isn’t a pain to read—on the contrary—but quality like that doesn’t come without pain in the writing. To a real writer, it is work, and for what indeed?

I haven’t heard of any world shortage of novels which needs volunteers to fill.