tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post6217529295293496279..comments2023-12-09T00:33:24.572-08:00Comments on Novel Matters: Children's NoirBonnie Grovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377519561074174038noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-42040751767344555412011-06-26T21:00:21.688-07:002011-06-26T21:00:21.688-07:00Megan, that's great. What a laugh. Glad I wasn...Megan, that's great. What a laugh. Glad I wasn't the only one. :)Karen @ a house full of sunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17787916466155321686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-70373519057583282902011-06-25T13:37:22.422-07:002011-06-25T13:37:22.422-07:00Karen I love what you wrote here.
I'm writing...Karen I love what you wrote here. <br />I'm writing about that funny childhood love-hate thing at the moment, and I keep thinking back to your story. <br />Personally I was extremely disappointed when I was a kid that my stories hadn't been swept up by Penguin for the perusal of the world at large. I flatly refused to turn 13 because I hadn't reached any of my childhood goals. I still haven't. Maybe when I finally have a book published I can have a massive 13th birthday party!!! What a laugh.Megan Sayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15410068162701570057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-33108821647095276692011-06-24T20:53:19.461-07:002011-06-24T20:53:19.461-07:00Granny, thank you very much. My books are availabl...Granny, thank you very much. My books are available through my website, which you can get to through Novel Matters (which is the case with all 6 of us).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-57581359734389725382011-06-24T19:57:04.986-07:002011-06-24T19:57:04.986-07:00Seems I was a late bloomer compared to most of you...Seems I was a late bloomer compared to most of you. I knew I wanted to be a writer when I was six. :) I still remember it though - I'd asked Mum where all the storybooks came from, and she told me that authors made them up. I decided then and there that I was going to be a writer. I thought I'd had the most profound and original thought on earth. Took me years before I grasped the sheer quantity of books and writers and would-be-writers on the planet.<br /><br />I've never once veered from that decision, either. In primary school I pored over the Guinness Book of Records, memorising the photo of the Youngest Published Author in the world. She was 8 years old, and I both loved and hated her. She had a bowl haircut and a checked pinafore, and she'd written a story about pirates.<br /><br />I soaked up every bit of information about writing that I could. Learned that authors don't usually make much money, or at least not for a while, so I decided I would study teaching so I could support myself while I wrote my books. And that's what I did. <br /><br />I was thinking recently about the stubborn nature of my 2-year-old, who is a very strong willed child. It occurred to me that there's a positive side to stubbornness - the determination to carry things through. In my own quiet way, I was a very stubborn kid as well. Decades later I still haven't achieved my dream, but it's never once occurred to me to abandon it. It's a part of me, and I won't give up until I reach that childhood goal.Karen @ a house full of sunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17787916466155321686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-10604858188240298802011-06-24T19:50:27.587-07:002011-06-24T19:50:27.587-07:00Megan, my youngest son loved Roald Dahl when he wa...Megan, my youngest son loved Roald Dahl when he was younger, and he does, as an adult. I think he's appalling. ;)<br /><br />Granny, so glad you are here. You can find Sharon's books on Amazon - run a search for Sharon K. Souza.Kathleen Popahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03682046279211463305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-32714197022535782442011-06-24T18:43:58.686-07:002011-06-24T18:43:58.686-07:00It just occurred to me that there's probably q...It just occurred to me that there's probably quite a number of books that would fit in the category of Children's Noir. Roald Dahl's stories are full of abuse, extreme poverty, attempted murders and the like, and kids come to them in droves and read them again and again. In fact, we encourage them!Megan Sayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15410068162701570057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-49121869738227649632011-06-24T18:32:53.838-07:002011-06-24T18:32:53.838-07:00Sharon, I so hope your next novel gets published! ...Sharon, I so hope your next novel gets published! I am going to read Every Good and Perfect Gift and Lying on Sunday if I have to go to the ends of the earth to find them. <br />Blessings to you.Grannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02768286592233958380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-11299814021338763232011-06-24T14:11:15.973-07:002011-06-24T14:11:15.973-07:00Kathleen I am deeply honoured by the thought that ...Kathleen I am deeply honoured by the thought that my comments have inspired you, thankyou!<br /><br />Once again, there is so much truth in this. I'm the owner-operator of a five-year-old at the moment, and he's one of the most random creative kid I've ever met. He's a "why-let-the-facts-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-story" type, and some of the things he comes out with are hilarious, although not always what you want to hear. <br /><br />I think he'd love Children's Noir, and stories like your rabbit one. <br /><br />I agree totally that as adults - and as artists - we need to find that five year old way of relating to the world. I remember for many years acting like a grown-up while trying to squash down the little kid inside me who clamboured for attention. Then God did this amazing thing, and I felt like I could let it go and grow up for real. Funny thing though, now I feel grown-up on the inside, and I'm free to sing and dance and chat with random strangers in public and generally act like...a five year old.Megan Sayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15410068162701570057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-76482499649467302832011-06-24T14:03:17.055-07:002011-06-24T14:03:17.055-07:00Susie, Hooray for the overactive imagination! I wa...Susie, Hooray for the overactive imagination! I was (am?) a day-dreamer, too. <br /><br />Chris, thank you!<br /><br />Bonnie, don't check with Pastor Steve. Easier to get forgiveness...<br /><br />Henrietta, I'd never heard of Struwwelpeter. Just snapped up the Kindle edition for free. I'll check it out. And I'm happy for age 8 and Hans Christian Anderson.<br /><br />Ariel, what a perfect response from your mom! And I forgot, there IS a Children's Noir author. Suppose Gaiman would want to write about tiny animals in jars of urine?Kathleen Popahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03682046279211463305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-59429150263824179002011-06-24T13:52:10.079-07:002011-06-24T13:52:10.079-07:00*Insert contented sigh*
I also knew I was a write...*Insert contented sigh*<br /><br />I also knew I was a writer at the age of five. My mother didn't argue when I told her. Instead she handed me paper and a pencil. <br /><br />Have you by chance read WOLVES IN THE WALLS by Neil Gaiman? It's a most clever picture book that I'd consider Children's Noir. No surprise that my boys love it.Ariel Allison Lawhonhttp://www.arielallison.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-58312221015831192812011-06-24T09:07:05.885-07:002011-06-24T09:07:05.885-07:00Anybody read Struvelpeter? That is Children's...Anybody read Struvelpeter? That is Children's Noir if ever I was emotionally scarred for life. <br />By the age of 5 I'd had so much pain and dismemberment that I only wanted to write happy fairy tales to counter it all. Still unable to read at the age of 8 I would sit with Hans Christian Andersen's Tales on my lap and will the words to come alive. <br />Children's Noir would be stories about children, mostly true, that we would never tell them about for fear of them understanding.Henrietta Frankenseenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-81726862375824289562011-06-24T07:21:52.995-07:002011-06-24T07:21:52.995-07:00Katy: I LOVE being wrong--especially when it's...Katy: I LOVE being wrong--especially when it's you who comes along, sweeps up my mess, and sets the world right. MWAH!<br /><br />Hey, am I allowed to tell stories in church? Should I check with Pastor Steve first? heh heh.Bonnie Grovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11377519561074174038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-18246014348074727552011-06-24T07:17:10.143-07:002011-06-24T07:17:10.143-07:00Kathleen - Love the last line!! Yes we do love to ...Kathleen - Love the last line!! Yes we do love to read what you write.Chris Jager - Baker Book House-fiction buyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04070215521212726907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360410252358941163.post-28305824753185933612011-06-24T03:15:51.358-07:002011-06-24T03:15:51.358-07:00Wow. This is powerful! Thank you. I just love bein...Wow. This is powerful! Thank you. I just love being part of this writer's family.<br /><br />At five, I was the girl with the "overactive imagination". But I lacked the confidence to believe that God had a purpose for what some called a character flaw. "Dirty devices" indeed. <br /><br />Thankfully, I'm from an incredibly artsy fartsy family (dad is a writer, mom was a painter...etc.). They were able to encourage me. Never getting too annoyed with my day dreaming. <br /><br />I think that just recently I've learned why I do the things I do. Why I see things so differently from other people. Why I can't seem to stop listening in on the conversations of strangers. It's because I am a writer. Ah. So relieving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com