“The Manuscript” Tattlings

I love the smell of books, the feel of them in my hands. And I can turn pages back to a great turn of phrase or idea I marked with a satin ribbon.

Tattlings Menu:

∴ PI  Restart

∴ PII  The Romance

∴ PIII  Manuscript Progress Tattlings 

∴  PIV  A Writer’s Prescription 

∴ PV  Surprise Discovery  

∴ PVI  Clicks 

 

∴ PI  Restart:

 As a story of loss and recovery – oops! Generic remark! Restart:

A Greek Matinée is Literary Fiction with the main character moving in situations that threaten her mental stability.

The plot of A Greek Matinée takes Anna, an ageing woman,  amongst ruins, tourists, smugglers, legends and secretive manoeuvres. At this stage I will not reveal more as that first should be pitched to an agent. I’ll only quote from the manuscript when the character Camille is talking of Goddess Demeter and Persephoné: ‘There are three phases here. One, Descent. Two, Search. Three, Ascent.’ Camille’s comment could be taken as a motif in A Greek Matinée.

∴ PII  The Romance:

The working title of my manuscript is A Greek Matinée.

“Matinée” is a play on an afternoon’s light entertainment, perhaps made heavier with dramas; the matinée of a political era or endeavour; maybe, the matinée of one’s life before eventide ambushes.

Anna, the main character, is in the thrall of ancient Greece with it’s far-reaching history and rich mythology. After a certain circumstance, she starts to feel she’s being followed. But is she paranoiac,  perhaps going mad?

**2022 March  It’s settled.  A Greek Matinée is Literary Fiction. What a journey to this momentous declaration! For long I’ve considered rafts of definitions and words from NYBooksEditor, looked at novels on publisher Literary Fiction lists and, discussed the matter with my latest beta-reader.

Yes, got it! A Greek Matinée is Literary Fiction.

Eh! When A Greek Matinée is published – I’m perpetually The Optimist – travel to Greece without leaving your seat amidst undercurrents of something sinister, flirts with danger, psychological shifts and historically held views unashamedly questioned. Or, maybe A Greek Matinée will be a book for you to tuck in your pocket as you tread where ancients trod, debated, sang praises, tripped with beauty, comedy and tragedy.

Ece Temelkuran’s Women Who Blow on Knots, a fearless tale of female solidarity during the Arab Spring is said to be Road Fiction. Péter Esterházy’s The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube) although it’s down a river could in some ways be thought Trip Fiction as one aspect of the story sees the young boy on a life-changing experience travelling with his distant-uncle.  A Greek Matinée is sure to stretch thinking as you  journey with Anna.

After you’ve visited the Tattlings of Progress, A Writing Prescription and Surprise Discovery, here’s a jump to Péter Esterházy, and to Lela  (a true little story of my encounter with a lady from Roumania).

A Greek Matinée is more than a story of loss and recovery.

 

∴ PVI  Clicks:

♦  A Few Manuscript Reader Comments   • Here’s a tempter from one of my beta-readers: “A Greek Matinée, I can’t put it down … The archaeological sites enable the past and present to entwine. Females are empowered.” – click link for more.

♦  Beta-Readers •  Writers! ensure you’ve had a good selection of beta-readers before submitting your work to an agent. Consider…

♦  My Genre   •  A Greek Matinée is set in contemporary times with characters who are thrown together on a journey, swivelling through personal and social problems. Boundaries are extended to…

♦  AGM QUESTIONS – Can you help?   • In the past, Titanide (daughter of Sky and Earth) `Ρέα was translated from original Ancient Greek to Latin then to English as Rhea BUT because a rough-breathing aspirant precedes the rho, should that not read Hrea?… Ah hah! resolved. Thankyou Ces.

♦  A Greek Matinée is born 

After you’ve visited the Tattlings of Progress, A Writing Prescription and Surprise Discovery, here’s a jump to Péter Esterházy, and to Lela  (a true little story of my encounter with a lady from Roumania).

A Greek Matinée is more than a story of loss and recovery.

 

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∴ PIII  Manuscript Progress Tattlings

∴  PIV  A Writer’s Prescription

∴ PV  Surprise Discovery

 

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