A Month of Milksops
Milksop is one month old today.
Old Dog Dumps (ODD): Dispatches from a Journeyman Writer
Retired professor, unretired writer. Author of the coming-of-age novel Milksop. Hobby farmer raising free-run egg-laying chickens and living in a four-generation, ancient, money-pit farmhouse in Ontario, Canada.
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Look Out! Milksop Released Today into the Wilds of Writing
Will You Catch It?
Small Dreams and Minor Miracles: How ODD!
Writing Fiction, Reading Fiction
In Others’ Words, Part 4: Milksop Must Be Banned!
At Least Among French Teenagers, Maybe All Teenagers
More Sightings of Milksops in the Wild
Or, Strolling into a Literary Minefield
Milksop: In Others’ Words, Part 3
Will This Fish Out of Water Survive?
Milksop Pre-Ordering Frenzy!
In Which I Share Two ODD Fantasies
Sightings of “Milksop” in the Wild
In an earlier ODD post, “Stephen King Loves ‘Milksop,’” I shared that King used “milksop” in The Shining (spotted there by my publisher, Alanna Rusnak). Here’s the passage, where Jack Torrance lashes out at his wife Wendy with these words.:
Milksop: In Others’ Words, Part 2
Evan and I, We’ve Arrived?
Milksop: In Others’ Words, Part 1
Does It Ring True?