All that talk about blogging again and I go on vacation for 2 weeks and don't blog. oops. I read a book while I was away, called How Fiction Works, by James Wood. It was great, I read it in just a few days cause I couldn't stop. I learned a lot from it, and …
give it away
I haven't sold a story in over 5 years, and I'd like to think that I've improved in those 5 years... so that leads me to believe that even if my writing is technically better, I must not be writing what sells. I thought for a minute that I'd better find out what sells, and …
A clear idea of right and wrong
I've been listening to Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, my first Tolstoy, and am enjoying the lack of moral relativism. It's somehow refreshing to have a narrator with a clear opinion of what is evil and what is good, and a character who also knows this and is trying to be good. All the shades of …
Scent in writing
I'm reading Perfume: The story of a murderer, by Patrick Suskind, and am impressed with the amount of detail he's put into describing smells. It is an underused sense, in writing, and maybe that is part of why it seems so amazing, but I'm really being drawn into the strange way this character perceives the …
I don’t like ‘lol random’
I've been reading The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, and am finding myself generally annoyed with it, and had some curiosity why, since it seems like the kind of humor I used to really enjoy, in 'Hitchhiker's Guide' for example. I think the difference is that in Hitchhiker, things that appear random at first are …
Jonas David 