Writing about writing and reading
In this world, there are a set number of ways our DNA can combine to produce a child. There are generations worth of people who looked exactly like you in the past, and you can know based on this, what you'll look like as you age and what kind of health problems you will have. …
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When I'm scrolling through my reader here on WordPress, I often see posts with a little parenthetic in the title like: (2 minute read). I'm trying to put a finger on why I almost never read these posts. I feel a resistance to click on them at all, when I see those. Unless the title …
As a writing exercise, I often try to describe random objects or scenes that I see in my daily life. I don't type them out--just in my mind. But I try to come up with the words to put exactly what I'm looking at right then into someone else's head. How do I get across …
If you were an immortal, how many stories could you write before you got bored of the whole idea of stories? I can't imagine ever getting tired of making stuff up... but I suppose there must be a limit. Every thing that has ever happened, never happened, can't happen, or must happen--all are stories. How, with …
What can I say about this book? It was a journey, an adventure, an endeavor. I loved every page of it and was left aching, (I swear I felt a physical ache) for more at the end. Every time I read one of Faber's novels, I say his characters are what make it. And this is …
Continue reading "The Crimson Petal and the White, by Michel Faber"
Jonas David 