Writing about writing and reading
Maybe you've been watching my videos on this book, or maybe not! I have gotten tired of making them. I think writing is more my style than talking. But this book is definitely my style, and is one of the best things I've read, ever! I think it might be in my top 10 favorite …
Continue reading "If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino"
I've started reading 'Out' by Christine Brooke-Rose. This one is described as an 'experimental' novel, and it certainly reads that way. The writing style is very strange so far, with repetitive descriptions of the surrounding environment, with characters left in a sort of confusing fog. I'm finding it very interesting, and enjoying how I have …
I've spent a bit of time the past few days wondering if anyone will ever want to read my stories, or enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them. Am I the only one who enjoys the sort of thing I want to write? Surely I can't be... I'm not that special or …
I have three stories out at various magazines waiting for a response, and two of them are past the time I normally should have been rejected by. It's getting me very excited and I keep checking my email, it's been years since I sold a short story... Of course, now that I've blogged about it …
John Smith did something as another thing happened. "Unexpected statement that sets the tone of the story," he said. Stories that open this way somehow lose my interest in an instant, no matter how interesting the things John is doing or saying are. Why? Because the structure of the opening is so familiar it induces …
Jonas David 