I am left wondering, about how the world perceives this book. This was not an erotic or romantic read. IÂ can't think of any point a that I would describe as even slightly arousing. It is the story of a child rapist, who abducts and repeatedly assaults a child over the course of nearly three years. …
Multitasking with words
I wish I could write two things at once. But I'm terrible at focusing my attention, and anything that took my mind away from my current novel would have to be very short indeed, or risk me never going back to what I'm doing now... Should I try flash fiction again? Maybe. I've never found it very fulfilling but …
Are you begging? (72 hour read)
When I'm scrolling through my reader here on WordPress, I often see posts with a little parenthetic in the title like: (2 minute read). I'm trying to put a finger on why I almost never read these posts. I feel a resistance to click on them at all, when I see those. Unless the title …
Write about what you love?
I started reading IQ84 by Haruki Murakami recently, and one of the characters is a struggling writer. I am enjoying it quite a lot more than the previous Murakami novel I read, though it has a lot of similarities also. I wonder, though, how many writers write about writers? How many characters in novels are …
How would you describe it?
As a writing exercise, I often try to describe random objects or scenes that I see in my daily life. I don't type them out--just in my mind. But I try to come up with the words to put exactly what I'm looking at right then into someone else's head. How do I get across …
Jonas David 