Writing about writing and reading
This novel tells a story parallel to Oryx and Crake, and although it was well written and enjoyable, I'm not quite sure what the point of it was. For anyone who has read Oryx and Crake, there is very little new info. It is stuff you already knew, seen through the eyes of new characters. …
Continue reading "The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood"
If you've got momentum, keep it! Because once you give it up you will have to expend ten times the energy to get it back. How many times have I said "write every day?" Probably a lot, but, I am trying to write every day here... and it bears repeating! If you don't write tomorrow, …
I imagine sometimes that writing descriptively must be like painting, though I've not done much painting in my life. You get an idea in your head, and you choose the right colors, the right palate, the right style, to get the image you want across. Is finding the right word like finding the right color …
And now I'm even older... My birthday was on Friday, and they just keep coming quicker. One day I'll wake up and be 50, then another I'll wake up and be dead. Just like your birthday, you have a death-day that you pass each year. A future anniversary of your demise. Which day could it …
I thought the other day about how animals know what to eat and how to find it, seemingly from birth. Do animals accidentally eat poisonous or harmful things? It doesn't seem like it. But we humans, we don't know how to eat, how to catch food, how to prepare it, until we're taught. We don't …
Jonas David 