Cause I haven't been writing every day, I feel the write is just draining out of me. So this is me trying to fill it back up again. Reading: I finished listening to Heart of Darkness and found it a bit disturbing, and also very well written. It was referenced in Rings of Saturn by …
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov
Another terrific read by Nabokov, I have yet to be disappointed by his novels. This one follows a chess player, but you don't have to know a single thing about how to play chess in order to enjoy it. It's more about the mental states, and how imagining all the possible outcomes in a game …
do i hate french authors?
I usually finish a book if I make it past the first chapter or so, but I just couldn't do it for Madame Bovary. Something about the way the story is told made it just impossible for me to pay attention or engage with the characters. The imagery and prose was really nice, which kept …
Hello world
It's my six year anniversary with this blog. Good golly does time fly. I feel my writing has improved by orders of magnitude in the past six years, but other parts of me feel I've just been treading water. Most of my progress has been internal, and not really evident in the real world. I …
Not writing is depressing
Fingers gotta type words, and mine haven't been. My blog has been stagnating, oops! And I'm wondering if this is having an effect on my current project not moving forward. My gears are rusting perhaps... I find that whenever I go too long without making progress on whatever I'm writing, I get really down. I …
Jonas David 