Writing takes love, self confidence, optimism, and hope in order to complete anything. But editing, I am coming to believe, takes hate, pessimism, and self-disgust. A writer has to be two people, two halves isolated from each other--the writing half is an excited person full of energy and love for the words they are creating …
I can’t stop writing
Which may seem like a good problem to have, except I'm supposed to be editing. Since I finished my novella, I've written five short stories, and just signed up to write another... and I've only edited, partially, one chapter of my novel. I know I need to focus on editing, or the writing was for …
I keep laughing
You know it's a funny book when just thinking about it throughout the day makes you burst out laughing. Me trying to describe it would not do justice to its hilarity, you just have to read it yourself. But... something about this kind of character is just so amusing--the just smart enough to think they …
All kinds of love
I've started listening to this novel, and so far--as the title would imply--it is all about love. The book opens with one character, and we follow from him, to his wife, to his wife's past lover, and I assume we'll keep bouncing around like this, in a sort of meandering way through the past. It's …
Pure genius
I've just started this one by Vladimir Nabokov, and already am blown away just in the first pages. This guy is pure genius, and I wonder how he's not ranked higher than he already is even. I'm laughing almost ever page as I read this, its just so subtly brilliant. I wonder if as many …
Jonas David 