Name a first person novel where the character isn't annoying, stupid, or an asshole--I'd like to read it. Maybe it's because people never see their own faults, I suppose that's realistic but it's still annoying. (almost) Every novel I've read in first person the character does irrational, stupid, or asshole-ish things, and never acknowledges it …
I FINISHED IT
I got to the end of the Glass Bead Game, finally! And boy... did it disappoint. The final 20% of the book is several poems and three short stories written by the character whose life we just got a long, tired account of. Two of the three stories were actually really good and I thought …
There is only one reason to write
Because you want to be famous? Â ****X**** Because you want money? ****X**** Because you want everyone to know how smart you are? ****X**** Because you want people to think you are mysterious? ****X**** Because the ghost of PKD has possessed your fingers and is forcing you to scrawl dozens of pages of deep, yet …
Connect the dots
Reading through this old pile of words, I feel I'm going to have do do a lot of creative interpreting to make it all fit together and make sense. Which is fun. Sometimes when I'm writing I feel like I'm just scattering ideas out there, and I'll figure out how they are all related later. …
Motivation
Is so very hard to find sometimes. There is no clear path to success, no obvious next step. Everything must be done with the high likelihood that it is a complete waste of energy and time. I sometimes feel like I'm in a vacuum. That, or one tiny voice in a howling hurricane made of …
Jonas David 