Merles of Wisdom
Went to Writer's Day an SNHU yesterday. Hope Jordan and I are guest editing the next edition of Ex Libris while the Writers Project finds a new editor, and I'd assigned myself to go listen to Merle Drowne give his talk on "Character Driven Fiction" and write about it. Merle's a good speaker (he used to be a teacher) and powerful fiction writer (I really dug Suburbs of Heaven) , and I stopped by the desk to see him afterward and told him I'd gotten some great pearls of wisdom for Ex Libris. He suggested that maybe I ought to think of them as Merles of wisdom. Go figure. A fine writer and a punster besides.