I'm still reading The Peregrine, very slowly because the lack of narrative drive makes it a bit hard to get into. But it is starting to draw me in with the eerie feeling of looking into an alien world, even though all he is describing is perfectly natural Earth. Seeing the lives of animals without …
Strange things
I've been listening to Orlando, by Virginia Woolf, and had heard a bit about it so I knew the main character transformed into a woman--but I had expected it to be a sort of reincarnation thing. As it happens, he just wakes up one morning to be a she with no explanation given. And, I …
Sunday, and no Game of Thrones…
What will we do every Sunday for the next year and a half? What will we talk and theorize about? What will we yell at our friends for not watching? What will we spoil accidentally and ruin friendships over? Well, there are other shows on their way. There is season 2 of Stranger Things this …
Words
Are like puzzle pieces with many sides. Cube or dodecahedron even, and can lock together in many ways to reveal many pictures. Sometimes you just have to make them line up in any way that makes sense, and sometimes you spend hours sliding them around, moving them here and there, until you get exactly the …
Good words or many words
It's a trouble I always have. Do I write slow and nice, or fast and bad? Actually I seem to have no choice in the matter when it comes to my fiction. I have to write slow and as good as I can. I try to spew words out sometimes but I get a thousand …
Jonas David 