Writing about writing and reading
remember that episode of the office where michael accidentally starts a rumor that stanley's wife is having an affair, and so over the course of the day starts a dozen other obviously false rumors, so that no one will believe anything they've heard that day? that same scenario is happening in real life, to you …
Continue reading "the steady and intentional destruction of truth"
Have you ever been in a Home Goods, Hobby Lobby, or other such store where the walls are lined with mass-produced ‘art’ designed by committee and spat out of a factory, and have you ever been to a real art gallery full of unique works made by individual minds, and which do you prefer? Human …
I finished this dystopian classic by Margaret Atwood and was both impressed and frustrated. I was impressed by how believable the story was. In the afterward the author talks about how she took great care to put nothing in the book that hadn't already happened somewhere in history, and no technology that didn't exist. She …
Continue reading "The Handmaid’s Tale: a negative side of human adaptability"
I've fallen off blogging for too long, time to get back into it! While I've been away I have: Decided to take a break from writing my next novel to writing short stories. Threw away the short story I was writing and went back to my novel Enrolled in a technical writing certification course so …
Writers all have their different habits and preferences for bringing words into existence. There are an endless number of writing programs, both free and paid, some just for processing words, or other more complex ones for organizing and story-boarding. Some writers even use pen and paper and keep physical piles of paper laying around! Personally, …
Jonas David 