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Post by ryamoureux on Aug 15, 2024 19:58:32 GMT
I am currently working my way through all of the DUNE books, but sneaking in other things in between each one. So right now I'm actually reading THE NAME OF THE ROSE which I am loving. Good ol' monk mysteries. Gotta love it. Elements of it are crawling into everything else I'm doing. So, what are YOU reading?  |
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Post by chan on Aug 15, 2024 21:59:17 GMT
they don't make covers like they used to... i am currently rereading HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Z Danielewski. only my favourite book of all time.  |
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Post by wolfcyborg on Aug 16, 2024 0:37:04 GMT
Current Reads: Crash by JG Ballard, Giant Size X-Men(1975), & Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The times in my life when I feel most disconnected from the craft of writing are when one of two things is happening: I'm not writing every day, OR, I'm not reading every day. Over the past couple weeks, I have felt the currents of life pulling me away from the Work, and towards job applications, and apartment tours, and email after email after email, and suddenly I realized my thoughts had begun to become occupied, and filled with bookkeeping and task management, and not the warm embers of creative thinking.
With that in mind, this week I set out to get my feet wet once again, and set aside time to refuel the brain, so that in the upcoming weeks I could return to writing with my mind abuzz with all sorts of new ideas. I picked three works across different mediums that I had wanted to read for some time but never could carve out the energy. Ballard comes highly recommended from a number of creative types whose work I greatly admire, and the idea of plunging head first into the melodrama of romance and societal upheaval and cosmic righteous that is the X-Men has been on the list for a long time, a big sore spot in my comic knowledge. As for Le Guin, I have spent most of the year rotating between her, Shirley Jackson, and Paul Auster, reading 3-4 novels from each at a time, and feeling that tightness in my chest that tells me I outta write a half a dozen pages before bed. I've read left hand of darkness, wizard of earthsea, and lathe of heaven by her so far this year (along with a number of short stories (highly highly recommend lathe, i think about this book all the time), and I figured that it was time to hear about her process and take from it what I can. (Stephen King, you're next!)
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Post by chan on Aug 21, 2024 2:09:21 GMT
Current Reads: Crash by JG Ballard, Giant Size X-Men(1975), & Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The times in my life when I feel most disconnected from the craft of writing are when one of two things is happening: I'm not writing every day, OR, I'm not reading every day. Over the past couple weeks, I have felt the currents of life pulling me away from the Work, and towards job applications, and apartment tours, and email after email after email, and suddenly I realized my thoughts had begun to become occupied, and filled with bookkeeping and task management, and not the warm embers of creative thinking.
With that in mind, this week I set out to get my feet wet once again, and set aside time to refuel the brain, so that in the upcoming weeks I could return to writing with my mind abuzz with all sorts of new ideas. I picked three works across different mediums that I had wanted to read for some time but never could carve out the energy. Ballard comes highly recommended from a number of creative types whose work I greatly admire, and the idea of plunging head first into the melodrama of romance and societal upheaval and cosmic righteous that is the X-Men has been on the list for a long time, a big sore spot in my comic knowledge. As for Le Guin, I have spent most of the year rotating between her, Shirley Jackson, and Paul Auster, reading 3-4 novels from each at a time, and feeling that tightness in my chest that tells me I outta write a half a dozen pages before bed. I've read left hand of darkness, wizard of earthsea, and lathe of heaven by her so far this year (along with a number of short stories (highly highly recommend lathe, i think about this book all the time), and I figured that it was time to hear about her process and take from it what I can. (Stephen King, you're next!)
I know exactly what you mean re: most disconnected from the craft. And the currents of life that pull and distract and threaten to drown.
How's Le Guin's Steering The Craft? Oddly I was just looking at it last week. She has a few non-fiction books out that engage with her craft and thinking and I struggled to pick one so I, naturally, chose not to pick anything at all. But perhaps this is a sign.
What's your favourite book you've read recently?
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Post by wolfcyborg on Aug 21, 2024 16:02:00 GMT
Current Reads: Crash by JG Ballard, Giant Size X-Men(1975), & Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The times in my life when I feel most disconnected from the craft of writing are when one of two things is happening: I'm not writing every day, OR, I'm not reading every day. Over the past couple weeks, I have felt the currents of life pulling me away from the Work, and towards job applications, and apartment tours, and email after email after email, and suddenly I realized my thoughts had begun to become occupied, and filled with bookkeeping and task management, and not the warm embers of creative thinking.
With that in mind, this week I set out to get my feet wet once again, and set aside time to refuel the brain, so that in the upcoming weeks I could return to writing with my mind abuzz with all sorts of new ideas. I picked three works across different mediums that I had wanted to read for some time but never could carve out the energy. Ballard comes highly recommended from a number of creative types whose work I greatly admire, and the idea of plunging head first into the melodrama of romance and societal upheaval and cosmic righteous that is the X-Men has been on the list for a long time, a big sore spot in my comic knowledge. As for Le Guin, I have spent most of the year rotating between her, Shirley Jackson, and Paul Auster, reading 3-4 novels from each at a time, and feeling that tightness in my chest that tells me I outta write a half a dozen pages before bed. I've read left hand of darkness, wizard of earthsea, and lathe of heaven by her so far this year (along with a number of short stories (highly highly recommend lathe, i think about this book all the time), and I figured that it was time to hear about her process and take from it what I can. (Stephen King, you're next!)
I know exactly what you mean re: most disconnected from the craft. And the currents of life that pull and distract and threaten to drown.
How's Le Guin's Steering The Craft? Oddly I was just looking at it last week. She has a few non-fiction books out that engage with her craft and thinking and I struggled to pick one so I, naturally, chose not to pick anything at all. But perhaps this is a sign.
What's your favourite book you've read recently?
Steering The Craft is fantastic! It is structured more as a workbook, providing examples culled from lots of great writers, and then providing exercises, prompts, and explanations for how to hone writing as a discipline, which is something I'm very keen on getting my brain back to doing. I think for what I know of your specific madness, you might get more out of her book language of the night, its a collection of essays concerning writing, and delves more into her background with anthropology (having been raised by two anthropologists), her thoughts on the confines of genre, and lots of other great insights. www.ursulakleguin.com/the-language-of-the-night I've provided a link if you want to check it out. (I'd also recommend giving her novel the left hand of darkness a spin if you haven't read it, it pairs well with LOTN.) |
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Post by kliqIMB on Aug 22, 2024 3:49:24 GMT
Currently about to start my Cosmere re-read in preparation for Stormlight 5 coming out. I hadn't read any of the secret projects, the last Wax and Wayne, or Stormlight 3-4, but I convinced my buddy and my wife to start reading Elantris, so it's full steam ahead.
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