tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102103.post3754952551475736313..comments2023-12-22T03:51:16.223-05:00Comments on Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk: Free writingRob Helpy-Chalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13814390262154687969noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102103.post-64078859489869495342011-01-19T14:36:04.452-05:002011-01-19T14:36:04.452-05:00Its "free" like I couldn't think of ...Its "free" like I couldn't think of anything else to call it, what the audience for it was, or where it was heading, but I decided to put it out there anyway.Rob Helpy-Chalkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814390262154687969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102103.post-1122424645775238192011-01-19T14:30:54.140-05:002011-01-19T14:30:54.140-05:00Having been away from the Helpychalk blog for awhi...Having been away from the Helpychalk blog for awhile, I feel like I'm missing something. <br /><br />So I'm wondering, what IS free writing? Is its function to produce wonderful new thoughts like this one about the similarity between nursing homes and whorehouses? Is it done in service to some other goal or for its own sake?<br /><br />I know you like free things and freeing things, so I'm wondering, too, "free" like the prize that's no longer in a box of Cracker Jack or "free" like the lions of the Serengeti?Evelyn Bristerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17016286150526911445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102103.post-43148646693084371532010-12-06T10:11:09.361-05:002010-12-06T10:11:09.361-05:00From one of said novels: "Torve was bemused b...From one of said novels: <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/2003/20030324/villiers.shtml" rel="nofollow">"Torve was bemused by the way a nail would retreat into the wood after it had been hit on the head"</a><br /><br />That does sound good.Rob Helpy-Chalkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13814390262154687969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102103.post-36473798664381739732010-12-06T09:47:02.878-05:002010-12-06T09:47:02.878-05:00Rob, you might enjoy the Anthony Villiers novels b...Rob, you might enjoy the Anthony Villiers novels by Alexei Panshin.joel hanesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102103.post-3572403424594201112010-11-20T14:57:29.573-05:002010-11-20T14:57:29.573-05:00Okay. That's a lot less horrible than what I w...Okay. That's a lot less horrible than what I was thinking when I first read "combination nursing home and whorehouse." (My first thought being, of course, that it would be patients, not nurses, who would be the prostitutes.)Nordomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462778715902299822noreply@blogger.com