I’m an aspiring novelist myself. In between posts here, I bash away at the keyboard, developing my own half-baked comedy adventures. I’ve not attempted Wodehouse (yet), but I was delighted and impressed with this piece by ‘SloopJonB’. He captures the tone of Wodehouse very well, and his Jeeves makes some astute observations about modern writing. Enjoy! Continue reading Jeeves and the Aspiring Novelist
Originally posted on Jim Webster:
It was Thomas Sowell who said “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.” This is why I’m turning today not to one of the great intellectuals, but to PG Wodehouse; to be specific, his book ‘Cocktail Time’. The book is about the first novel (also called Cocktail Time) written by one of the leading characters and his experiences really hit home. You can tell PG Wodehouse was writing from the heart. To quote the great man, “It has been well said that… Continue reading Blasted by Bishops
What Ho! Ho! Ho! To everyone who reads Plumtopia, wherever you are in the world, whatever the festive season means to you, I want to wish you and your family all the very best. It means a great deal to me to know that someone, like you, is listening and interested in what I have to share at this page, so thank you! 2014 will, I hope, be a very productive year. I have an ambitious editorial calendar of writing planned, across three different pages. If you haven’t discovered them all yet, and think they may be of interest, they … Continue reading Seasons Greetings
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