Comments on: Waiting for the Physio http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/waiting-for-the-physio/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mark P Lynch http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/waiting-for-the-physio/comment-page-1/#comment-112184 Mark P Lynch Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:54:08 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=4131#comment-112184 I do enjoy these glimpses, prose doodles, whatever you want to call them, John. They feel like things overheard, scenes witnessed and recorded. Meaning they meet Elmore Leonard's golden rule of writing, which is to say it's writing but it doesn't look or sound like writing. (Last line of the first paragraph possibly isn't needed, mind, if I can be critical.) <strong>jb says</strong>: Thanks, Mark. And, oh, yes, what a neat edit. I do enjoy these glimpses, prose doodles, whatever you want to call them, John. They feel like things overheard, scenes witnessed and recorded. Meaning they meet Elmore Leonard’s golden rule of writing, which is to say it’s writing but it doesn’t look or sound like writing.

(Last line of the first paragraph possibly isn’t needed, mind, if I can be critical.)

jb says: Thanks, Mark. And, oh, yes, what a neat edit.

]]> By: Jim Murdoch http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/waiting-for-the-physio/comment-page-1/#comment-111915 Jim Murdoch Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:00:34 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/?p=4131#comment-111915 Was is wrong of me to think about Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough's 'Cissy and Ada' when reading this? Hard not to. <strong>jb says</strong>: Hi Jim. It's always good to have another pair of eyes. Was is wrong of me to think about Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough’s ‘Cissy and Ada’ when reading this? Hard not to.

jb says: Hi Jim. It’s always good to have another pair of eyes.

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