tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post4996011297934100915..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: Joey Had Never Been Out of the CityKen Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-83837618193359371322014-10-23T18:38:17.171+01:002014-10-23T18:38:17.171+01:00Thanks, Jim, I like your comment... well, it's...Thanks, Jim, I like your comment... well, it's the only one I got... :)<br /><br />Never mind.<br /><br />This wee story had to be 'exorcised' from my brain. On the Monday before I posted it, I made the mistake that appears withing. I was blithely wandering round a services station and only realised when we left that I wasn't at the one across the road. <br /><br />I immediately thought 'There's a little story that could be erected around that and I challenged myself to have a go at it. I mulled it for days and then let rip. It was quite cathartic. It's not the Best Thing Ever but it was, as they say, fun in the breeding.<br /><br />As for comments and blogs, I think that might be my next blog post...<br /><br />cheers matie.Ken Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-44689356142611194202014-10-23T12:02:02.609+01:002014-10-23T12:02:02.609+01:00I’m late commenting. I did what I always do, sent ...I’m late commenting. I did what I always do, sent a link to your blog to Evernote from my tablet so I don’t forget about it and then I read the post later on my laptop. I like my tablet for lots of things but even though it’s got a 10.1" screen it’s still a bit on the small size. I’m currently drooling over the new Samsung Galaxy Note PRO 12.2" Tablet but £350 (which is about the cheapest I’ve seen it for) is a lot when I’ve already got a laptop, a PC, a netbook and a perfectly-functional tablet. Maybe in a few months I might be able to pick up a used one.<br /><br />I’m late commenting. I said that. I fully expected there to be loads of comments already and what could I possibly add to what’d been said already? and yet when I look I see no comments whatsoever. Not a one. Maybe there are and you’ve not approved them. Somehow I think not. I’ve not checked on Facebook but I suppose a few people responded to your comment there. I hate when people do what. I dunno why but it really rubs me up the wrong way. Probably because I’m basically anti-Facebook. I try not to be, I try to think about what’s good about it but mostly I let it annoy me. But no comments. Not a one. Makes you wonder why you bother. It bothers me when I get no comments but then something nice happens as some French professor discovers your two articles on Guillevic and sends you a nice e-mail. That was kinda nice. He wanted me to write a fresh article for this journal he edits but I had to turn him down. I’ve forgotten practically everything I read about Guillevic and’d have to start from scratch and just the thought of it’s exhausting. <br /><br />Apparently blogs aren’t nearly as popular as they used to be. Everyone’s rushing off to Facebook and Twitter it seems. I don’t really get it. I do understand that <i>young</i> people might be less interesting in longer forms of writing but what about all these old people who refuse to die and have plenty of time on their hands? Why aren’t they blogging? Or maybe they are. It’s been so long since I had a good trawl to see what’s new out there. Logic dictates there must be new and interesting blogs coming into existence all the time but how to find them? The old problem we all have. It’s not as if you can type “new and interesting blogs” in Google and see what it comes up with. Not that I’ve tried.<br /><br />I suppose I should say something about your story now. I like the surveyor’s name. (Occasionally I use real people’s names. In <i>Living with the Truth</i> the two fishermen—Messrs Edgar and Polson—were the named after the two girls who I worked beside at the time. It was a bank of four desks. One sat to my left and the other facing me.) On the whole it’s a decent enough story. The ending was not entirely unpredictable but I did like the last two paragraphs very much. If I was the star-giving kind of person you’d get a whole extra star just for that ending but I’m not saying how many stars the rest of the story’d get because tomorrow I’d probably change my mind.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com