Posts Tagged ‘recursive’

Blogged in a blog

July 23, 2008

Or is that blagged in a blog? It is a funny but pleasant feeling when reading someone’s blog and discovering they’ve written fiction based on a fiction by me! Isn’t that a recursion? In programming a program subroutine that calls itself is recursive. I have a thirst for stories that refer to themselves such that they end up being an integral part of the story. The classic rescursive story travels something like: Man walks into a bar and sees a woman reading a newspaper in which there is a story about a man who walks into a bar. He sees a woman reading a newspaper in which there… you get it. But I seek to write a recursive novella, but that’s another story.

In this case Gladys Hobson, writer and small press publisher, read my Exit, Pursued by a Bee and it must have given her a nightmare! Check her blog here
http://gladyshobson.wordpress.com/
It both tickled me and is flattering. Thanks Gladys!


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