Woke up at 8.30 or so, so I slept some 10 or so hours. Yesterday she told me that March 10 was Didzis's birthday. I quickly changed the subject after that. So I watched Not Another Teen Movie. It was okay, I had seen it before but that was a long time ago and there was much I had forgotten. Not the best or cleverest of parodies, but it was better than watching TV.
Today I ate garlic-bread, potatoes and salty nuts. Mood: -2.
So I read to page 74 of Speaker for the Dead. I don't think I'll read more than that. That makes for 20% of the book. So far it's okay though I'm not particularly intrigued. This might really be the last book I read of the series, unless it suddenly turns really good, because it's one thing to finish a book you don't particularly like but quite another to read a series that you don't enjoy - what's the point? Now about the book, so far the only thing that really bothers me is - what exactly is the Speaker For The Dead? I mean in the first book it was barely explained and now the story barely deals with that. And there's another thing - in one of his Left Behind review Slacktivist pointed out that a Great Writer is hard to write, because if you would write about a Great Artist (or a Great Musician etc.) you could just simply have the characters say how wonderful his work is and let the reader imagine the rest, but with a Great Writer the reader is going to want to see evidence of this. So in Speaker for the Dead both Ender and Valentine are these great, brilliant genius authors read and revered thousands of years after they first published their work and we are to simply believe this without any proof. Show, don't tell as the saying goes and so far I have seen no evidence to look at Ender and Valentine as the author looks at them.
So I just decided to go at it (my Marie-Antoinette project) despite my fear that I might not be able to do it and I wrote one page of the first chapter. I just wrote without much thought so if anyone wanted to edit it in order to make something out of it good you would probably have to cut a whole lot of it. I'm just really not good at anything.
I feel so very depressed.
So she finally left to the store, I've been craving those salty nuts ever since morning. I didn't even want chips because they're less salty. I even asked to buy two. Also I have continued with my work, I might even finish the first chapter today though to be honest it's not very good, especially where the dialogue is concerned (particularly the serious lack of it). If I'm ever gonna do it legit it's going to have to be first person like a diary or something.
I just realised something - I kind of suck at 3rd person writing.
So I finished with chapter 1. So this is really just an exercise cause honestly I could write better.
There's yet again nothing interesting on the TV, except a Bond movie, but I don't like Bond movies. Now I'll have to figure something out.
I think I'll just watch Luther tonight. Don't really see any other option.
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