SPLASH!

                                                             FINI!

Diving back into the blogosphere after an absence of two years, I can  pronounce that I have, as promised, finished my novel.  Finished is of course  a relative term.   I am profoundly grateful to my  two final readers, who read, marked up, commented on and enjoyed my manuscript.  I am pleased to the extent that I am ready to send it off to the numerous agents whose requirements look to be a potential good fit for me.  It is a giant leap into the unknown.

I have enjoyed every moment of the three year plus process and will desperately miss the characters I have now set free to live the rest of their lives without my guidance.  Another assortment of characters inhabit my dreams ...  waiting to be sketched in on the pages of a new project.

Discarding the many blog-posts I rattled off about baseball trivia in the past, my hope for future posts is a careful restructuring of the storytelling process –– from the moment a photo of a ballplayer and his daughter captured my attention ––  to the final words of the  story  ... "Play ball."

METAFORAGING

WHAT WAS I THINKING ... Filling my Literary Fishbowl up with baseballs, when I should have been angling for metaphors? ....  

"Metaforaging" as they say

 

met.a.phor |ˈmetəˌfôr, -fər|  noun

  ~  a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable: “I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors 

 ~ a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract: the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering.

ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer.’

                                                          

All previous posts relating to baseball, the San Francisco Giants, and the 2010 World Series –– which of course the Giants won –– will be deleted in order to make space for a more literary approach to the game as I attempt to chronicle the evolution of my novel ... which coincidentally or not happens to be about baseball.

  

                       WAIT!      What about the metaphor?    

There is a song called  "Love Is Like Baseball".  It's a possibility I will keep in reserve, while I metaforage further, and finish the novel.