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 …
Is Irony dead?
Irony is not something easily sensed by everyone. Sarcasm can be immediately detected by tone, but irony is often meant to sound exactly like the opinion given. One might say a stupid opinion with a straight face, and expect it to be known that they are being ironic, because they couldn't possibly be so stupid. …
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
I didn't think much of For Whom the Bell Tolls at first, but it pulled me in and left me heartbroken. Somehow, with sparse descriptions and repetitive words, he made me feel the love between Maria and Robert with a clarity that made me feel sick for them. He made me despise Pablo and respect …
Playing at crazy
If someone pretended to be crazy for too long, would they become crazy? The same with anything... to truly pretend, you must get inside the headstate of someone. If you're there too long, would you get stuck? I wonder if people like Alex Jones and David Ike and so on, played at it for too …
Jonas David 