Comments for LOOKING FOR MR GOODSTORY http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com by COLIN FALCONER Sun, 26 May 2013 02:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on WHY A TOMATO IS NOT AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ANY HISTORICAL NOVEL by Sophie Schiller http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/why-a-tomato-is-an-essential-part-of-any-historical-novel/#comment-3651 Sun, 26 May 2013 02:09:05 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4192#comment-3651 Most people don’t know the history of the food we eat (and take for granted) every day. When the Spaniards arrived in the New World, they encountered many new foods that were previously unknown to European diets: corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, chili, tomatoes, peppers, cassava root, avocado, peanut, pecan , cashew, pineapple, blueberry, sunflower, petunia, black-eyed peas, quinine (staple ingredient of gin & tonic), wild rice, cacao (chocolate), gourds, and squash.

Nowadays, most of China’s tomatoes are grown in Xinjian province (the Silk Road province), where the majority of the people are Kazakhs and Uyghurs, but the Chinese themselves never took to the tomato and never really incorporated it into their diet. The Chinese word for it is “fan qie” or “foreign eggplant”.

]]> Comment on LETTER TO A FRIEND by Eden http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/letter-to-a-friend/#comment-3650 Sat, 25 May 2013 20:48:58 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4263#comment-3650 Colin, thank you.

Today or tomorrow or years from now… we can only choose how much life we live and how many wonderful memories we can give those we love…not memories of things we gave them, but memories of us living, being with them, sharing their lives–becoming the best gift we can give the world….

Joy.

]]> Comment on LETTER TO A FRIEND by Karen McFarland http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/letter-to-a-friend/#comment-3649 Sat, 25 May 2013 19:17:22 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4263#comment-3649 Hi Colin. Talk about life. That could be the reason I haven’t dropped by in a while. But what an interesting post today. It makes me ponder as to why the quest to make a difference in others lives is so important to us. For there are many who could care less about anyone else but themselves. I think love and passion, for whatever reason, gives us the motivation to give. If someone is in the possession of those said attributes, what good does it do to keep it to themselves? It really is a gift, is it not? It sounds like things are going well for you Colin. Take care! :)

]]> Comment on LETTER TO A FRIEND by renée a. schuls-jacobson http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/letter-to-a-friend/#comment-3648 Sat, 25 May 2013 14:29:13 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4263#comment-3648 Wow. Thank you, Colin. I have been struggling with my WIP, deciding if I just should stop writing it. Does that make me a quitter? I’m trying to figure it out. I’m not a scared person, but for some reason I feel petrified by both ideas. Moving forward (with major revisions) sounds as awful as stopping completely. I think I have to meditate on this a little bit more. Thanks for the kick in the pants.

]]> Comment on LETTER TO A FRIEND by filbio http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/letter-to-a-friend/#comment-3646 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:42:47 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4263#comment-3646 I saw myself in so many parts of this post. Why am I doing this job? What should I really be doing? Why don’t we just take that big chance? True – we are caught up in so many insignificant details and deadlines I think we sometimes forget to actually live.

Great post again!

]]> Comment on LETTER TO A FRIEND by prue batten http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/letter-to-a-friend/#comment-3641 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:06:47 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4263#comment-3641 A perfect post. I lost my cousin suddenly on Boxing Day. He was a man who lived life as if today was his last. It was a huge lesson as one doesn’t want to end with regrets. I’m struggling so hard to finish the last two chapters of my latest but ‘life’ is out there. Take today – out the window the sky is blue to infinity. We live high on a hill and I can see far up into the Tasmanian midlands which are white with frost. A fog folds itself down the Derwent River – a perfect late autumn day. How can I stay inside and write? Simply put: I can’t. Cheers, Colin.

]]> Comment on LETTER TO A FRIEND by Lizzi Tremayne http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/letter-to-a-friend/#comment-3640 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:16:47 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4263#comment-3640 Reblogged this on Lizzi Tremayne, Writer and commented:
Colin Falconer said it all in this fantastic blog post. Thank you, Colin!

]]> Comment on LETTER TO A FRIEND by ciarandwynvil http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/letter-to-a-friend/#comment-3639 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:11:26 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4263#comment-3639 This is one of the best blog posts I have ever read. Thank you, Colin.

]]> Comment on WHAT PRICE TALENT? by Lizzi Tremayne http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/what-price-talent/#comment-3632 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:22:09 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=3764#comment-3632 Reblogged this on Lizzi Tremayne, Writer.

]]> Comment on WHY A TOMATO IS NOT AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ANY HISTORICAL NOVEL by klynwurth http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/why-a-tomato-is-an-essential-part-of-any-historical-novel/#comment-3631 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:49:46 +0000 http://colinfalconer.wordpress.com/?p=4192#comment-3631 That’s the spirit! Challenge those readers, or they’ll go soft, believing everything they read… ;)

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