I'm going crazy that's what. Completely bonkers.
Oh well.
Lately I have been struggling with writing [okay, life in general], just not having any motivation and making it easier for myself to not make time for it but it's always there at the back of my head. Hopefully I'll be able to pull it back into habit territory soon.
For my YA novel I read The Host by Stephanie Meyer. For those of you who haven't read it, hold your horses. I've heard all there is to complain about in regards to the Twilight series and let me tell you that her writing has much improved with this book. I've probably read it at least 5 times and it brings me to tears each time [in a good way]. I'm not generally way into scifi which is where she treads here but I love this story, its originality and complexity. Her character development isn't even comparable to the Twilight books because you actually come to care for the characters in The Host though I will admit that [for some strange, personal mental reason] I mispronounced the main characters name for the longest time [and I still do because I've decided I like it better than the common pronunciation].
Okay, can I rant to you guys for a minute? So I'm a psychology major, hence my advanced writing credit is Writing Within Psychology this semester which is all about academic writing which I positively abhor. Getting through class has been hard enough due to my dislike of the writing style but last week it got worse in an unimaginable way. My TA was teaching the class and we were talking about Journalese and how the quality of writing in popular magazines like People has gone down the tube. Valid argument, yes? Suddenly, he decided to sidetrack and offend me in the biggest way imaginable [I assume it was just me because none of my classmates objected to the following. some even, horrifically, agreed with him]. He said "So let's talk about Harry Potter for a minute. Aside from what it may have done/be doing for young kids learning to read, etc., it's awful writing. It's just bad writing." I swear, if I had been fortuitously holding something heavy in my hand at that moment I would have thrown it in the general direction of his skull [because let's admit it, I have no aim]. I just couldn't believe he had said that! But then he continued with "I mean, if I were to re-write it I would do it completely differently." And guess what monsieur TA? NO ONE WOULD HAVE READ IT. Can I please get an "AMEN" to this? I may get ridiculously enraged when I think about this, but I know I'm not crazy.
[steps outside to take a little breather]
I'm going to move on to a very short snippet of my sad writing journal. As always, I tend more toward introspection that actually writing...I need to work on that.
Who would we be without mirrors, if we never saw ourselves? Our judgement of others would potentially stand but how would we think of ourselves? Was it our ability to see others' appearances that first drove us to seek out and make reflective surfaces in which to examine, and then preen ourselves? How would we, and our world, be different without them?
I read what you wrote about Harry Potter. I think a lot people say things like that because they like to think they're on a higher plane than the average person because they didn't like such-and-such popular book. Not to mention getting a rise out of people.
ReplyDeleteWhich I think is stupid, because of the large amount of people who would throw heavy objects in the general direction of his/her skull (myself included).
I liked what you wrote about mirrors. A mirror is such a commonplace thing that it's difficult to think about what it would be like if I couldn't look at myself (as vain as that sounds).
P.S. If you ever find yourself with a lack of people to talk Harry Potter with, you know who to call.
(me)
haha, thank you :) it's nice to know someone else would throw things at him :P
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