I watched part of Sabrina tonight and mused about fame and what it means for a career. As a writer, the thing I'm more afraid of than anything else is... giving up. Stopping. Having written and sold...Wolfe (recent, but relatively unremarked), a number of Jim Kjelgaard's wilderness novels that weren't about dogs. So, my point: our careers move on, but the work remains. That's rather comforting
...sources can go after primary sources that you can't. Maybe you can't get your hands on them -- possibly because of translation. Maybe because of time factors, or you don't know how to analyze them. Reading through all the baptismal records of many London churches, and doing a statistical analysis of them -- well, that was the means by which one scholar demonstrated that all the preachers who deplored...
#40 by the way by Naomi Novik This book, the first in the Temeraireseries, has a rare and wonderfulquality to it. It takes a familiar world (especially right now after reading Napoleon's Pyramids ) and grafts the unfamiliar onto it: What if dragons were real, and were a real part of war? The hero of the book appears to be strong-jawed, a man of character, and yet kind and caring in an odd way...
Heading off to Book Group where we will be discussing The Sheltering Sky ...finished a good draft of Project Seekrit and sent it out for final approval before submission...crazy-busy Day Job day...weather is still gorgeous...did yoga this morning for the first time in a week and a half...that's all the time I got, can't be late for the Booksters!
...my Clinical Psychology Practicum. I'll be spending about 8 hours a week doing volunteer work, and countless more keeping a journal of my experiences, as well as keeping up with the volumes of reading (textbook, novels and other writings) required for the course. It's kind of a big deal. Fortunately, my professor seems to be on board with me working at a program called BRIK (Building Resiliency...
...when I'm on this kind of binge :P I can guarrantee that I will be sick of it come December, November even.... but for now, I'm having fun c: I was assigned a book assignment today..... yaaaayyyyy reading c: The book is 'The Color Purple', which I've heard is amazing, but the first three pages are slightly awkward. I don't know if I'm going to like it, but I'll keep reading it anyways for the grade...
shadesong has posted a new WindTunnelDreamsstory , based on a pair of earrings and the prompt "The pattern of light through leaves on your skin." Go read! This cyberfunded creativity projec
shadesong has posted a new WindTunnelDreamsstory , based on a pair of earrings and the prompt "The pattern of light through leaves on your skin." Go read! This cyberfunded creativity project has a donation button after the post, in case you want to support the project and author.
...from the other side. I was always one of those who longed for acceptance from my more literary friends. I sought out the "deeper" works of SF for them, hoping that at last that they would respect my reading choices. But it didn't work. In those far-off days, my tormentors believed that there were two types of writing in the world, High and Low, and that both types lived on separate sides of an impenetrable...
So I just finished a historical fiction entitled The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling. It was entertaining. But what I found most interesting is that it made me think. It made me aware of all...or for fun, that it's just another job and that no one gets hurt in it. But it's past... that's really freaking me out. Anyway, it's a damn good book. Too bad the author died shortly after writing it
