Just curious...
How is Nabokov not everyone’s favorite author?
Just curious...
New ideas
I'm already brainstorming the next novel, but I haven't edited the first one yet... I think the process of creating will always be the more fun part for me, rather than the 'selling' side of it. It's always a matter of being a salesperson. Even if you're not self-publishing, you still have to try to …
That’s great writing…
I've started on another Nabokov novel, and just from the first pages I'm already smiling. The way he writes is just somehow so humorous and beautiful at the same time. Not funny like jokes or goofy characters, but funny because you can imagine someone just like that, or you can see that little quirk or …
DELETE
I'm in the mood to destroy words! I think I'd better not, though, until at least a couple other people tell me the targeted words are bad. Otherwise I might just erase everything...
Starting at the action
I'm listening to Kafka's Metamorphosis, and the first sentence is him waking up as a giant insect. This is how stories should be told. So many other writers, amateur or not, would write however many thousands of words about the day before it happened--but why waste time getting there? Since the story is about him …
Jonas David 