Writing about writing and reading
Jimmy wakes up on the morning of his 18th birthday and drives to the clinic for his mandatory injection of love serum. This is a special medicine that makes him fall in love with the next person he sees. This is required of all adult citizens, once per year. It is very unlikely that the …
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I wonder how or if my writing would improve if I knew multiple languages. Haruki Murakami translated his first book into English, then back into Japanese when he first wrote it in order to simplify his style. I wonder if it added new ideas to it as well. There must be some ideas that are …
Jeremy Irons' reading of Lolita is really good. I wish more audiobooks would have actors as the narrator, because he is doing way more than just reading the text. It's a performance. Tone is so important, timing, enunciation--all these things can change the meaning of something so drastically. Â I would be very picky about how …
I find that I dislike when things are concrete, black and white, yes or no. I like when things are open for interpretation, when there are many ways to see something, multiple directions to look. So when I'm writing, I often leave things vague, so they can be seen in multiple ways. I have a …
Borne is a child. The person who found Borne feels like a mother to 'him', and is raising him with the man she lives with. They argue about Borne a lot like parents in a broken home might. Borne doesn't know about the world or himself and gets hurt because of his innocence, and then …
Jonas David 