I've started on another Nabokov novel, and just from the first pages I'm already smiling. The way he writes is just somehow so humorous and beautiful at the same time. Not funny like jokes or goofy characters, but funny because you can imagine someone just like that, or you can see that little quirk or …
The Great Gatsby. Still not sure if I read it.
Well, now I've finished it, but I still feel like I haven't. I had a terrible time trying to pay attention to this one, but I think that was mostly the fault of the narrator. Jake Gyllenhaal (in a trend of having famous actors read classics) gives a dull, monotone reading that would put you …
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DELETE
I'm in the mood to destroy words! I think I'd better not, though, until at least a couple other people tell me the targeted words are bad. Otherwise I might just erase everything...
What to ask…
I'm writing a list of questions to ask people who read my novella... and it is making me think a bit more about what I was actually trying to achieve by writing the thing... Maybe I should have thought about this before writing it, but that's just not how I do things!
The Observer second draft is finished!
I have finished a first pass through of my novella, and fixed all the problems I had highlighted! Now to read it again and find a whole new slew of them (I've already found a few, sigh.) I know it will never be 'done.' It will only ever be 'good enough.' But it is still …
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