5 posts tagged “writing”
There is so much you could talk about with this book. I am not sure what the main theme is. Crime? Love? Time? One might think from the title that it would be atonement itself?
As a statement about life starting out at one point and ending up somewhere else completely unimagined, it's a wonderful analogy. We never really know what another person might be thinking or his/her true motives. Even friends. Even family. And there is a certain amount of danger in that. And loneliness.
Chilling. The most disturbing thing to me personally was the idea that the way to kill humanity is to attack the structure and vocabulary of language.
Orwell's novel is the most complete vision of dystopia that I've ever read. It's a masterpiece.
Everyone should read it...preferably after high school.
I am getting a bit nervous about finishing up my list of books for the year. I have three more to finish but there are only 40 days until the end of the year! Two books I have already started, The Enormous Room and Winesburg, Ohio. The other is a little known book called The Day Off. Perhaps soon my fear will be sufficient to get me in gear so I stop doing some of the other things that distract me (like online scrabble.)
At least I am not doing nanowrimo this year. I am overjoyed not to be doing that actually. This year I opted for the easier challenge of nablopomo. Although it is a completely different challenge trying to post without missing a day, it's definitely not the crazy uberstress of trying to write a novel in a single month.
LibraryThing just notified me that I am receiving my first Early Reviewer book. I am so excited!
The website has this cool idea of sending people free books even before they hit the bookstores. The only thing you have to do is read it and write a review. What could be better than that?
Although I had requested to be a part of this project about a year ago, I had given up hope that I would ever be chosen.
But, nope, I have a title coming to me, Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West I'm gonna have to switch gears a bit because it's non-fiction. I used to read mostly non-fiction, but I've kind of gotten out of the habit.
No matter. The book is about travel--a combination of my two favorite things. I don't know if I'll be able to contain myself.
I can hardly wait to get the book in my hands! Wish me luck...
I finished National Novel Writing Month with what I think is a decent rough draft of a novel. I'm definitely happier with what I produced this year than last. I'm actually anxious to start doing some editing and re-writing, but I think I'm busy enough with the holidays. I'm going to wait until January sometime to work on it some more.
I almost did not participate this year because last year was pretty painful. I felt like I never stopped writing and the writing did not come very quickly. This year I had a lot more to say and a more creative way to say it, so I think that really helped.
In total, I wrote for a little over 47 hours in the month of November. That's a little more than one week of full-time work. I'm sure that last year that hour total was double that. Perhaps there is something to say about "getting in the practice of writing" like all those professors said.
