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Novemberly things
Oct. 31st, 2011 07:01 amApparently it's that day with the candy and the costumes and the ENDLESS PARTYING!
Me, I see it as THAT DAY BEFORE NOVEMBER STARTS.
Anyways, I was thinking. Maybe an interesting November reading list would be the list of published Nano novels. I've already read Standish and Water For Elephants, and I've got one of Lani Diane Rich's \novels which I'll be reading (already started, actually!).
I probably won't be able to buy any more this month, because what is money, I have forgotten, but maybe it will be A Thing. Or I could at least order them from the library.
Secondly, here's some counters for your counting pleasure.
On another note Why I Hate National Novel Writing Month, and Why You Should Too -- this blogger really strikes me as an elitist Stop Having Fun Guys sort of guy. Yes, freaking NaNoWriMo is the reason for the death of all literature, while 24 hour comics is nothing but shining divine inspiration.
The thing is, there will always be shitty books. Way back when, there were your dime dreadfuls, your pulp fiction, onto your bodice rippers and nowadays, your Gossip Girls and Twilights.
Unless there's some massive time travel conspiracy I don't know about, Nano isn't the cause of said bad books. Does Nano produce some horrible things? Yes, but a lot of Nano novels collect dust on someone's HD. Look at the number of participants and winners, as opposed to the number of published things. Nano will not flood the market with crap, and has done far less than say, Twilight and all the clones than came with it has done to the poor market.
I cringe at the thought that anyone would take writing so seriously that the mere thought of anyone trying to write a novel in a month trivializes the oh so sacred art. I hate to break it to you, dude. But most of the original writing I do involves copious amounts of swearing at the screen (then I run screaming from the draft and find Myaru and go WRITING IS HARDDD. Then somehow it segues to us bitching about FE fandom. It's our thing.) while Hunter S. Thompson's journalism involved the intake of massive amounts of drugs.
There's nothing really sacred about it. Don't you know? Writers are perverts who hang around in their underwear all day.
Next thing you'll be telling me all fanfiction is an abomination done by perverts on the internet!
Me, I see it as THAT DAY BEFORE NOVEMBER STARTS.
Anyways, I was thinking. Maybe an interesting November reading list would be the list of published Nano novels. I've already read Standish and Water For Elephants, and I've got one of Lani Diane Rich's \novels which I'll be reading (already started, actually!).
I probably won't be able to buy any more this month, because what is money, I have forgotten, but maybe it will be A Thing. Or I could at least order them from the library.
Secondly, here's some counters for your counting pleasure.
On another note Why I Hate National Novel Writing Month, and Why You Should Too -- this blogger really strikes me as an elitist Stop Having Fun Guys sort of guy. Yes, freaking NaNoWriMo is the reason for the death of all literature, while 24 hour comics is nothing but shining divine inspiration.
The thing is, there will always be shitty books. Way back when, there were your dime dreadfuls, your pulp fiction, onto your bodice rippers and nowadays, your Gossip Girls and Twilights.
Unless there's some massive time travel conspiracy I don't know about, Nano isn't the cause of said bad books. Does Nano produce some horrible things? Yes, but a lot of Nano novels collect dust on someone's HD. Look at the number of participants and winners, as opposed to the number of published things. Nano will not flood the market with crap, and has done far less than say, Twilight and all the clones than came with it has done to the poor market.
I cringe at the thought that anyone would take writing so seriously that the mere thought of anyone trying to write a novel in a month trivializes the oh so sacred art. I hate to break it to you, dude. But most of the original writing I do involves copious amounts of swearing at the screen (then I run screaming from the draft and find Myaru and go WRITING IS HARDDD. Then somehow it segues to us bitching about FE fandom. It's our thing.) while Hunter S. Thompson's journalism involved the intake of massive amounts of drugs.
There's nothing really sacred about it. Don't you know? Writers are perverts who hang around in their underwear all day.
Next thing you'll be telling me all fanfiction is an abomination done by perverts on the internet!
