I've started reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and it's another end of the world story. However, it is very well written so I'm not too annoyed, and I'm sure I'll check out more of her books afterward. Maybe there are so many stories about apocalypse because things always seem to be in decline lately. …
Simple goals
Have a goal, a simple achievable one. Not simple as in easy, but simple as in not complex. 'Write a novel' is simple (not easy.) 'Write 3000 words per week, or two chapters, every other week poetry counts as x2 word count, weekends don't count, and each story submitted counts as an extra thousand words …
Nested narratives
I'm about 3/4 done with Cloud Atlas and am starting to see the design of it. And it's really great. At first I thought that the first three, maybe even four narratives had no relevance to the final two, where the action and interest really kicked off. But now, as I begin to see how …
I cog it
I am nearing the end of Cloud Atlas, and the current viewpoint character has a very foreign (to me) dialect. The character is Hawaiian, but in a far future 'we forgot technology' situation. Perhaps some of this way of speaking is familiar to Hawaiians, but it's not to me. And this is not just dialogue, …
So it begins
I have removed someone from existence and brought another into being with the flourish of my...fingers (pen would be more dramatic, but never use one). Maybe rewriting isn't so hard after all? One can hope... It's not like I'm digging for some long forgotten words or ancient melodies... I'm not working in a void, most of …
Jonas David 