Well here we are, post 100 for the Northampton SF Writers Group blog. It's been entertaining, getting from February 16th 2011 to here and we plan on sticking around for at least 100 more posts and hope that you'll keep visiting.
In case you're new to the blog, here are some pointers to the wide and varied content we've published.
Successes of various group members
Articles from group members
Interviews with members
Posts on writing (including top tips from the likes of Group chairman Ian Watson)
Reviews of films and books
and essays about "The Book That Made Me"
Stick around, there's plenty more to come...
This prompted me to peruse about half of The Drowning Pool – 133 pages or so – to see how many similes I could count. (I’m using the Vintage Crime Black Lizard edition from May 1996). I counted thirty four and no doubt missed a few. I haven’t done the legwork, but I think some of the later books might have a slightly higher ratio. That’s a lot, but in any case I would argue that many of Macdonald’s similes are so strong that they infinitely enrich the work. Not only that – they are so strong that they put many “serious” writers of fiction to shame.
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