I haven't read many. I got a couple books of poetry (English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology, and Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) to get a taste of it. What else is recommended? What a big part of literature I know nothing about!
Story number 2
Another one written, and I think I will probably send it somewhere, so that makes number 2 for the year, already 1/3 of my goal for the year! Now if I can just start editing my novel... eek...
What pad?
As some of you may know, I write short stories. I've got quite a few that no one has read, and they just sit around doing nothing. So, I've decided to start posting some of them somewhere they might actually get read. Maybe... Wattpad is a social writing site? Or something? All the youth are …
Strange points of view
I'm listening to My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, and so far there has been a chapter narrated by a dead man at the bottom of a well, and one narrated by a stray dog. These attention-grabbing narrators are fun to read, and I think they might be fun to write, too, so I …
An opening I’m tired of
John Smith did something as another thing happened. "Unexpected statement that sets the tone of the story," he said. Stories that open this way somehow lose my interest in an instant, no matter how interesting the things John is doing or saying are. Why? Because the structure of the opening is so familiar it induces …
Jonas David 