lessons to be learned

[shamguy4]

like many good books -I have lessons to teach
Whether they are through dialogue or innuendos or the main theme i want to get across to the reader. This is the main point of me writing.

I have a few "lessons" I'm already using
like "we learn from our mistakes"
or "you dont know what youve got till its gone" (this is the first thing I bring out in the book because my character is unhappy with his family. Only when he loses some of them does he realize how much they meant to him)

There are some that I've made up myself

But I want more and my head cant think of any...
usually i get them from everyday life but...

any one know others?
or a place where i can find others

 

[Peter Graham]

Re: lessons to be laerned

Hi Shamguy

like many good books -I have lessons to teach
Whether they are through dialogue or innuendos or the main theme i want to get across to the reader. This is the main point of me writing.

any one know others?
or a place where i can find others

I think that my favourite would be "evil (and good) are subjective."

Regards,

Peter

 

[Dragonlady]

A big theme in my writing- or I hope it is/will be- is that there is no such thing as an evil person, good and evil aren't black and white, just things people do to each other.

 

[Joel007]

A person's main stumbling block is fear.

 

[Peter Graham]

1. Look both ways when crossing roads.

2. Try everything once, except incest and morris-dancing.

3. Ensure that you take up pipe smoking and beard-growing on reaching your 70th birthday*

Regards,

Peter

* Ladies may forego beard-growing, but only if they take to wearing alarming purple eye-shadow at all times when in public. Pipe-smoking remains de rigeur.

 

[The Curious Orange]

- Never run with scissors,

- You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't,

- Always wear clean underpants; if you get run over and the paramedics see your dirty undies then your mother will die of shame.

 

[Commonmind]

As I write the "lessons" tend to come out naturally. I think, at least in my case, it's more organic this way, and the themes don't feel contrived or tacked on.

 

[lin robinson]

I can't hear about writers who have lessons to teach people without thinking of Samuel Goldwyn's apocryphal advice, "If you want to send a message, call Western Union."

It's arrogant to see fiction as indoctrination and cheapens the writer.

 

[Birol]

* Ladies may forego beard-growing, but only if they take to wearing alarming purple eye-shadow at all times when in public. Pipe-smoking remains de rigeur.

Can I take to smoking cigars instead? Not the dainty, feminine ones, but the big fat jobbies. I'll dip the ends in rum.

 

[Peter Graham]

Can I take to smoking cigars instead? Not the dainty, feminine ones, but the big fat jobbies. I'll dip the ends in rum.

Absolutely fine, as long as you bite off the end of the cigar with your teeth and give a loud "ha ha!" every time you do so. You will also need to ensure you only smoke brands which kick out enough smoke to make you look like one of Blake's Dark Satanic Mills.

Regards,

Peter

 

[Birol]

You've got a deal.

 

[lin robinson]

If you bend down the two outside tines of a table fork, the inner two will fit perfectly into a US-style double-prong electrical outlet. While this has a certain pleasing symmetry about it, it is not recommended.

Same goes for inserting penis is lightbulb sockets. The pleasure is short-lived.

 

[JDP]

I've always been partial to tales that remind us that you can't fit quicker than a Qwik-Fit fitter.

 

[Epona]

I like the (false) lesson that good conquers evil. I guess I'm a bit of a softie at heart!

I really hate books that end with the goodies losing. I always end up feeling somewhat let down by the author.

 

[Sapheron]

"Before going for revenge, dig two graves."

Read it somewhere, remembered it, told everyone. Have fun thinking about it. If you can manage to get more than one meaning out of it you're doing well. I'm on two real ones and several silly ones.

 

[Joel007]

One grave for the head and one for the body? Or "I'll get you and your little dog too?" Or so you can get your hands dirty and see how much work it is to hide the body?
How about one long grave?