Comparison of Fitzgerald and Hemingway

 Denial can make great truth’s go through a good person's eyesight and be ignored by a bad person's conscience. Fitzgerald and Hemmingway posessed both these kinds of denial as they were a teetering breed lost within the grey area of life.

It seems that Hemmingway’s Lady Bret opened a back door to monogamy exposing the changing the way women were starting to think and act while also giving men a run for their money. In all her glory, though, Lady Bret also, in my opinion, helped perpetuate the jealousy factor in men that can often start wars of varing levels. Not that men weren't jealous before the roaring age of drunkenness and loose morals, but now that women were making their desires more known and fraternizing with many men as opposed to only one men’s jealous tendencies were exponetially growing. Fitzgerald and Hemmingway fell into this tendency in stellar form. They had to have her and they did not give care nor thought to how they individually acted to get her, she was a prize and a conquest. They were Napolean over anyone they saught. Lady Bret was a character posed of the women Hemmingway was after and what they were like to his understanding. For Fitzgerald Daisy was his poison and she embodied exactly how he saw his Zelda as well as his fickle flame that was fame itself. They both saw women as welders of a power they were not fit to have but the fact that they had it gave a whole new way to frame their grey denial of what life really was with women in it.

In retrospect had the character of Lady Bret only desired to sleep with one man at a time and Hemmingway didn’t see women acting with flighty indecision quite possibly he would have sculpted his image of women differently. Therefore allowing women in reality to have gotten further faster in society because men wouldn't have felt so emasculated. As men are of a dominence mindset which means when someone they are sleeping with sleeps with more than one man they each tend to get a bit cranky that they are not the only one.

So when they're not out stulking, or crying (though they never cry, lol), or trying to be everywhere they think you'll be just so they can be like "oh no, I shop here all the time" while our eyes are rolling and we walk away, they're plotting ways to get attention, whether its with roses, or songs, or bombs and guns, because lets face it apparently aloof behavior is the trigger for psychosis.

Hemingway and Fitzgerald were pawns of this psychosis, hence is why they drank to numb the pain. Hemingway in a more Bret Ashley way and Fitzgerald in a fame was his lady, because we all know he was with Zelda, but fame was his fickel flighty fiesty lady. Fitzgerald gave fame his heart, as he knew Zelda would get him there and all that glitz and glam was all he ever wanted. Zelda couldn't compete and she made herself sick trying.

Hemingway on the other hand had, in my opinion and up and down relationship with women, he saw them as he saw his mother, at times great and at times not. He saw them as the ones to blame and also the ones to fix all wounds.

Both men seemed to capture women as they were in that day, indecisive on whether they wanted all the freedom or they wanted the security. It was a toss up based on mood.  

By the way I personally loved DiCaprio's Gatsby, it was new modern and fresh, different from the book in some ways but worth the watch. Also if you dig 1920's Fitgerald-esk stuff Christina Ricci stars in an Amazon Prime series about how Zelda and Scott hooked up, really great intrepretation of the book Z for Zelda by Therese Anne Fowler.

Advocacy for Writers

                                                               Advocacy for Writers

        When we think of what advocacy means it makes us want to get up and do something for a great cause. Indie Book Awards website www.indiebookawards.com gives that desire to anyone who visits its site. This site is giving back to its literary community through exposure. It connects new and emerging writers with veterans in the business through contests and galas in an effort to promote a constant influx of new material into the industry. This site thrives on the exposure of writers who demonstrate great ability to add new and diversified material to the writing industry and therefore society as well.

        Exposure to a new and emerging writer is key. Joe Bunting writes “You can choose to treat other writers as competitors for the attention spans of busy readers, or you can choose to treat them as potential allies,  in other words, as your team” (https://thewritepractice.com/publish-book/ ) in his article How to Publish Your Book and Sell Your First 1,000 Copies. One way to understand this assertion in terms of Indie Book Awards is to think of their contests, galas, and exposure as ways to make connections. By connecting with others in the writing industry a new and emerging writer would essentially be building their own team of resources they could draw upon for help and advice. 

        Galas can be a great source of significant fundraising which can supply organizations such as Indie Book Awards with the money they need to run their organization and pay the winners of their contests. Gail Sessomes explains in her article How to Do a Nonprofit Organization Fundraising Dinner the importance of hosting galas as a way to...

“...raise significant funds and also provide an opportunity for the organization’s supporters, volunteers and staff to mingle, have fun and renew their commitment to the nonprofit’s mission. Some nonprofits hold annual fundraising dinners that are anticipated as festive community events to promote and support a worthy cause. A memorable event is important, but the main purpose of the fundraising dinner is to raise money.” (http://smallbusiness.chron.com/nonprofit-organization-fundraising-dinner-23077.html)

It’s no wonder Indie Book Awards uses these types of events, they not only raise much-needed funding but they also bring the writing community together to help promote networking and exposure.

        Contests are the other favored way that Indie Book Awards promotes advocacy within the writing industry. By providing the writing community with opportunities for future writers to gain exposure and connections they are supporting the successful growth of the industry at large. Having a panel of published authors combing through the submissions gives expertise to the selection process which allows winners to become more accomplished future authors and gain insight into the field. According to Becky Tuch author of the article Writing Contests: Should You Take the Plunge? writing contests are worth the investment and effort. She says “Aside from the cash prize, winning a contest usually means publication in a magazine. Both yield readership, relationships with editors, and exposure.” (http://www.thereviewreview.net/publishing-tips/writing-contests-should-you-take-plunge)

        Indie Book Awards may not have a whole score of ways they are advocating for the writing community but they have three really impactful one's contests, galas, and exposure. By utilizing all three of those advocacy techniques they are setting new and emerging writers up for greater chances at successful writing careers. As they promote and encourage the best writers to move forward in their respective paths Indie Book Awards is helping to create a supportive environment for industry newcomers. 


                                                                       Works Cited:

• Bunting, Joe. “How to Publish Your Book and Sell Your First 1,000 Copies.” The Write Practice. https://thewritepractice.com/publish-book/. Accessed 25 March 2018.
• Sessoms, Gail. "How to Do a Nonprofit Organization Fundraising Dinner." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/nonprofit-organization-fundraising-dinner-23077.html. Accessed 25 March 2018. 
• Tuch, Becky. “Writing Contests: Should You Take the Plunge?”. The Review Review. http://www.thereviewreview.net/publishing-tips/writing-contests-should-you-take-plunge. Accessed 25 March 2018. 

Which Came First

Which Came First
People have had opinions on everything going on inside and around themselves since before Christ but most of those thoughts were kept to oneself or only spread around like gossip. People may have had things they could have said or wanted to say or even did say but it wasn’t until the printing press was made that people started to understand the concept of influence. For that reason, American Literature came first. A person must have a thought to print or printing is obsolete. However, it was the fact that printed materials became influential to societal growth and prosperity that led people to think more about thoughts. Therefor American book publishing actually drove American literature. 

Religion, Gods, higher powers of any and every kind have been the backbone of humanity for as long as printed materials can go back (and even before their invention) simply because we need (emphasis on need) to have hope and faith in someone/something as a reason for our existence. Simplicity in this emphatic assertion isn’t usually accepted either as we tend to believe the convoluted story then the provable facts hence the truth is always stranger than any fiction we could invent. “Book production was confined largely to religious centers of learning” (Britannica) for most of its earlier inception despite the fact that “Arab[s] insistence[d] on [the] hand-copying of the Qurʾān”(Britannica). It wasn’t until Johannes Gutenberg of Germany around the mid-1400s that mass-production printing took over Europe. “Gutenberg’s achievement was not a single invention but a whole new craft involving movable metal type, ink, paper, and press. In less than 50 years it had been carried through most of Europe, largely by German printers.”(Britannica) Within this timeframe of the book publishing concept and process is where it took over the driver's seat for literature. 

Due to the progression book publishing had started to gain and maintain in Europe and other Eastern Cultures by the time it hit North America book publishing was clearly the driving force behind American literature. Publishing may have started as a way to spread “proclamations, correspondence, transactions, and records” (Britannica) as well as religious beliefs but it quickly got recognized for its ability to mass influence and manipulate the basic needs of humanity. For that reason, by the time it hit North American markets book publishing drove the creation of literature for the purpose of influencing this new world’s societal and economic ways of life. 


Works Cited:

• "History of publishing." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15 Nov. 2017. academic.eb.com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/levels/collegiate/article/history-of-publishing/109461. Accessed 25 Feb. 2018.