I was listening to some classical music on my local classical station on the way in to work today, and one song was said to have been composed for a play about a sculpture who fell in love with his statue. After some googling, I think this is Pygmalion, in Greek mythology. This made me wonder …
can’t write? edit!
I've been having some trouble creating lately... so I'll delete instead! It's been nearly a year since I reached the end of my novel, so it's about time I started editing it. So, I started... and I'm wondering if I've really improved that much in the past year, or if I was just blinded by …
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 …
digging ditches: the ultimate human achievement?
How many Potential Einsteins, Hawkings, or Nabokovs or Woolfs or Monets or O'Keeffes are out there stuck digging ditches or scrubbing floors in order to survive? How much art and literature and scientific discoveries are the rest of us missing out on in favor of that floor being cleaned by a person rather than a …
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