Cover of Moll Flanders
There is nothing like lima beans and ham hocks. After letting a bag of large lima beans soak all night, the Old Soldier threw them in his crock pot with three ham hocks, red peppers and seasoning.
Today, I had a bowl of my lima beans and ham hocks. The beans and ham were delicious.
Yesterday, I went to the public library and renewed my library card. Then I took out several videos. One was Moll Flanders, a Mobil Masterpiece Theatre production for public television.
Alex Kingston does a bang up job as Moll, the resourceful 18th century heroine who is married five times, has numerous lovers and even commits incest with her brother.
Moll is constantly bare breasted during the numerous love scenes. It’s a pretty raunchy story in a tastefully done way and I enjoyed it.
*****
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Flash Movie Review: The Misfits
March 29, 2010 — pittsburghflashfictiongazetteA few nights ago the Old Soldier watched a tape of The Misfits starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. It’s a movie worth watching. It was good to see how well Marilyn could handle a serious role. Everyone did some fine acting.
The Old Soldier watches old movies in order to learn how to write better flash fiction. Good movies teach a writer to “show don’t tell.” Show don’t tell allows a reader to “live” in the story.
A flash fiction writer has to keep in mind many things when writing a story and show don’t tell is one of the most difficult things to achieve. Show don’t tell simply means the writer depends more on action than explanation to move a narrative forward.
John Houston, the director of The Misfits, understood this perfectly. You will find the finest examples of the show don’t tell technique in Compressionism: The Pittsburgh Stories (E-Book). Every young writer should have this book. Download your copy now.