How do you do it? I wonder if one can really use words to describe a face accurately. People tend to default to faces they've seen before, or shapes they are familiar with. I am trying something with a character of mine, and have picked a face of a real person to use as my …
Women?
Do they exist? Not, apparently, in the world of 'the glass bead game.' There are no women of power or intellect. There are no mothers, sisters, daughters. There are no random women walking down a street. There are no instances of the word 'she' in the entire book so far. The only hint that the female …
Book Points
While I'm forcing my way through The Glass Bead Game to make sure I can add a point to my 'books read this year' score, I'm really enjoying the Crimson Petal and the White. I'm two thirds the way through the 900 page monster, and loving every chapter. It calls me back every time I …
Something to write about
I've been writing a new thing. I'm not even ten thousand words in, but already it has gripped me, and I feel sure I'll follow it to the end, wherever that may be. It's nice to have something to work on every day again. A direction to turn my wandering mind. I feel I will …
Abstruse
I'm still working my way through The Glass Bead Game. 'Working' being the operative word. The author really likes the word 'abstruse' which, I had not heard before and took to be a combination of abstract and obtuse. I wasn't far off. Abstruse:Â difficult to understand; obscure That's pretty much the book in a nutshell, too. …
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