One of my side jobs is helping to manage a small gallery in
the Sawyer Free Library in Gloucester. I'm one of a committee of three that
select artists to exhibit each month, and one of us participates in the hanging
of the show. We choose artists in all media—oil, acrylic, printing,
photography, multimedia, and small sculptures or dioramas. For many artists
this is their first juried exhibit, but far more are seasoned professionals.
But every one faces the same problem—choosing what to exhibit.
I spent Thursday morning working with our current artist. I
kept thinking how similar selecting work for an exhibit was to shaping a
manuscript. In each work, the artist or writer has to choose what to keep and
what to omit. The artist can’t hang every single work unless he wants the exhibit
to look like a nineteenth-century salon. And the writer can’t include every
special turn of phrase, every quirky or interesting minor character, unless she
wants to turn her traditional mystery into the farce subgenre (and even then,
there are limits).
The joke among college writing instructors used to be about beginning
students who signed up to write the great American novel. This is akin to buying
an easel and canvases to prepare to painting the great American scene. There is
no one story, no one great character, in American life, just as there is no one
great image that captures all of the United States.
You can view the artwork of Nancy Molvig at the Matz Gallery
in the Sawyer Free Library during the month of October.
You can read my choices in When Krishna Calls, the newest Anita Ray, and Come About for Murder, the newest Mellingham Mystery.
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And thank heavens for all those choices! It would be miserable if we all liked the same thing.
As always, you're right on, Kathleen. Thanks for commenting.
One of the things I have enjoyed about reading Five Star/Gale/Cengage novels is the infinite variety of character and subject matter. I like reading a variety of genres by different authors. It makes life interesting. I also like writing in many different genres, although mystery fiction remains my favorite.
Interesting and so true, Susan!
Good luck and God's blessings
PamT
Interesting, Susan, the choices we have to make. And what a nice side job. I've read many Five Star novels, but lean toward mysteries. I keep thinking I should expand my reading interests and learn something new.
I too enjoy the variety of novels in the Five Star line, and I also like reading well beyond crime fiction. I wasn't thinking of Five Star in particular, but I'm glad you added them, Jacquie.
Carole, I often feel I should be reading more widely and then I look at my RBR stack and wonder where I'll find the time.
And I love my side job. It gives me a different perspective and draws on creativity in a different way.
And, thanks, Pam.
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