David Sheppard
The Novelsmithing Blog is in support of the book titled Novelsmithing, The Structural Foundation of Plot, Character, and Narration by David Sheppard. David Sheppard is also the author of Oedipus on a Pale Horse, Journey through Greece in Search of a Personal Mythology. His trilogy, The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis, was published in the first quarter of 2010.
David Sheppard holds a BS from Arizona State and an MS from Stanford University. He also studied creative writing and American Literature at the University of Colorado. His poetry has appeared in The Paris Reviewand in England (The 1987 Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthologyjudged by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney). While living in Colorado he was a member of the Rocky Mountain Writers Guild for seven years, participated in itsLive Poets Society and Advanced Novel Workshop, and chaired its Literary Society. He founded a novel critique group that lasted ten years. He has attended the Aspen Writers Conference in Colorado and the Sierra Writing Camp in California. Occasionally he has taught novel writing and Greek Mythology at New Mexico State University at Carlsbad in the Continuing Education Department. He has traveled throughout western Europe and is an amateur photographer and astronomer.
Novelsmithing
Hi David,
I’m a friend of Richards….we are in the same sketching group together and I just found out this weekend that you were a writer too….or should I say that he is a writer inspired by you. Fabulous! I will be looking up your Eleusinian (sp?) mysteries on Amazon after i finish this post.
Saw your tweet about surviving another WP 3.0 upgrade…egad, my art site is still a bit of a scramble with all my large images still not showing up. Grrr. Awaiting some tech help….can’t come soon enough. LOL.
Blessings!
Joanie
Hi Joanie,
Glad you liked the website. Yes, WP can be a pain, but it’s such a terrific free resource.
Thanks for dropping by.
David
Dear David,
As a habitual admirer of all things C.G. Jung I am very much enjoying your “Novelsmithing.” I am writing, however, to share my frustration with the way the book is organized in the Apple iBooks edition and quite likely other electronic formats. Under the table of contents only the title of the book is shown, while the contents appear on the first pages as plain text. This made the book impossible to navigate — quite a departure from the nicely ordered and structured table of contents that I see on the right side of this web page. Perhaps you should insist that your publisher pay closer attention to such matters in subsequent editions? Surely, I am not the only one who relies on the contents table in order to refer to various sections of the book. But once again, a fresh and meaningful approach to novel writing. Thank you!