Neither Wind nor Glass will Hold Us Back
Author: Mick Davidson
Link: Specter Magazine
A columnist’s question to writers everywhere trying to determine how to write a story based in the time before language.
He points out that language has a tendency to muck up the works in communication and then presents the values of body language. He poses questions such as: How did our ancestors get their point across, and how to imbue a sense of understanding to the reader within a short story if no dialogue is forthcoming?
Might I point out that Quest for Fire is a film that has no comprehensible dialogue and is based in the time before there was language? This point furthers the question that Mr. Davidson also asks: Is it necessary for such a story to be expressed through a visually-based genre or can it be conquered with the written word within a short story?
Good questions. Good column.
Mr. Davidson is a frequent columnist at Specter Magazine. You can usually find him there or cycling through the Netherlands, or on especially nice days, in his garden editing his novel and eating a bacon sandwich.
It can be read for free here: Neither Wind nor Glass will Hold Us Back
