Why I Read the Classics: Arthur Clennam in Little Dorrit

As promised, I am finally getting around to writing about classic books. Little Dorrit is an 800 page book, so it takes time to get through it, and I did. I couldn’t help but noticing that the melodrama increases mightily in Dickens as we near the end, as does the sentimentality. I didn’t mind.

I think a reasonable question is what can a modern genre writer use from a classic book to improve their writing. In Little Dorrit, Dickens develops a true portrait of a good man undergoing midlife crisis–the character of Arthur Clennam. Arthur’s journey is a subplot modern writers can relate to.

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Wig Crafting for AniCoz

1,780 / 1,800 (98.9%)

There we go! First draft of AniCoz wig article. It’s a wrap for today.

Next steps:

1. Smooth out interview part.
2. Organize instructions.
3. Choose and add pattern sketches and illustrative pictures.

If I can do the first two in evenings, and the last one in two evenings, I should be on task.

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After I get the wig article done, the writing journal will be full of these things for the foreseeable future.

1. Book Reports about what I’m reading
2. Favorite Reports (books, movies, television, and various other things that have impacted me as an author)
3. World and character building for the next novel
4. The writing process for the next novel.

Stay warm out there! We’re talking Brrrr here!

Catherine

Originally published at Writer Tamago. You can comment here or there.