Craft Chat The minutiae of the everyday is not to sneezed at

[Jonny]

I'm reading the book featured in this article (Duffy & Son). Highly recommend it. A wry, funny, and poignant study of getting older.

So I did a little research into the author. I think his personal writing story might be of interest to many of us.

Damien Owens: ‘People confuse seriousness with intelligence. Life is a comedy-drama’

The Monaghan-born writer on finding his voice and his fascination with other families

www.irishtimes.com

 

[Sedayne]

I'm reading the book featured in this article (Duffy & Son). Highly recommend it. A wry, funny, and poignant study of getting older.

So I did a little research into the author. I think his personal writing story might be of interest to many of us.

Damien Owens: ‘People confuse seriousness with intelligence. Life is a comedy-drama’

The Monaghan-born writer on finding his voice and his fascination with other families

www.irishtimes.com

Thanks for this, Jonny. Fascinating article.
I haven't come across this writer before, but it sounds very much my kind of thing. I love that humour in the small-scale dramas of the everyday.

 

[Jonny]

I do like little dramas a lot as they reflect our own lives. Well, not unless we are a king, princess, elf or an alien called Cyril from the planet Scorangula..

Of course I do like the above, too. I’ve written. read and enjoyed many, but it’s sometimes nice to read a story set in a world we Inhabit. And where the characters exist within the framework of the plot and don’t reach out beyond it to preach to us too much. If I’m making sense and not just blathering on.

That’s why enjoy writers like Roddy Doyle so much.

 

[Pamela Jo]

I do like little dramas a lot as they reflect our own lives. Well, not unless we are a king, princess, elf or an alien called Cyril from the planet Scorangula..

Of course I do like the above, too. I’ve written. read and enjoyed many, but it’s sometimes nice to read a story set in a world we Inhabit. And where the characters exist within the framework of the plot and don’t reach out beyond it to preach to us too much. If I’m making sense and not just blathering on.

That’s why enjoy writers like Roddy Doyle so much.

Well isn't that we like Wodehouse. Even tho his characters never have to worry about anything real like the Depression of the 1930's we can relate t their problems. It's like being back in primary school again with dilemmas like who to eat lunch with or who gets to feed the class hamster but with adults. Bertie is almost literally an 8 year old's fantasy of what it is to be a grown up.

 

[mickleinapickle]

Fascinating read, and he's absolutely right... life is an ongoing comedy drama. We should be grateful there are no real-life vampires, zombies, etc.

 

[Pamela Jo]

Bless his cotton socks.

"As someone who has written six published novels and two series of a TV show, has he any tips for wannabe writers? “Just keep going,” he says. “When you go back and read over it and think, ‘I shouldn’t be allowed to breathe the same air as normal people; this is atrocious,’ just remind yourself that that’s because you haven’t fixed it yet. The entire thing is about fixing it.”