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in most of the stories I read/watch, there comes a point where I wish a could stop it and re-write it differently (aka the point where I’ll likely will have to stop watching).
For example, in the Good Wife I was playing at the background for a while…
… I personally think it would be a much better story if they killed off the husband, and not whom they did kill off (spoiler alert, kinda)
(though then she would have to be the Good Widow)
An official notice that was sent to our company from a game rating organization of a certain country I’ll refrain from naming. I’m not even kidding.
when your typos make more sense than what you were trying to write…
The problem with me and traveling is that, as any child who grew up spending a lot of time roaming alone through hotels around the world, a feel a little too at home inside the hotel and don’t really want to go out… I need to go for a walk but in truth staying in the room writing and reading all day feels like so much more fun and a more pleasant way to spend my days off… (Not to mention that it feels stupid to pay money for a good hotel and spend most of the time outside of it.)
OmmWriter app
a way to make you keep your screen clean of fingerprints and stuff.
Today,
writing is like untangling those strings from a tightly-tangled ball, before even attempting to weave them into any sort of fabric.
Sometimes I feel like writing is building a huge puzzle from few thousand pieces without knowing the final picture.
Sometimes I feel that it is like building a living body in baby steps, assembling the bones on the first draft, then connecting the nerves, the muscles, adding some meat, some blood with every next editing, and finally skin, and colour before it is ready to become its own seperate being.
Sometimes I feel that it is like having a thousand of colourful strings and trying to weave a tapestry having no idea how to do it.
Sometimes I just have to stop in a middle of doing something and ask myself: “To whom was I just talking so intensively in my head for the last hour?!”
On the company-wide web notice board
stuff like “Person who lost 50yen, please collect”
or “Someone forgot 100 yen change at the wending machine” announcements
are a real thing.
Japan.
p.s. – They hang there for weeks, because whoever lost their money can’t remember if it is theirs, and all the other people won’t take money that is not.
I feel great disappointment when sequels of movies that have ended on some high and happy note, start with “and then, while no one was looking, it all went to shit”…
like the second Ghostbusters or Miss Congeniality
I can’t use my writing to get the bad blood out of myself.
Because I need my writing to be my good blood.
But then I suffer a lot from the need to get the bad blood out somehow and not knowing how…
can’t help but judge people not by the answers they give but by the questions they ask
Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It’s packed with good ideas, but betrayed by rushed execution.
It’s a good book. And while I liked the story and think that it’s pleasantly enough written, here’s why it’s 4 stars and not 5:
-It feels underdeveloped and rushed. Like a movie instead of a book. Or like someone took a much longer and complicated novel and made an abridged version of it. There were very nice ideas and moments, but it didn’t feel like they were explored. I honestly felt like I was being rushed through the story, without getting the full experience.
-Perhaps related to the previous point, but it also asks the reader to take for granted a lot of things without explaining how they really work in the world. Or much about the world in general.
-It didn’t really escape the ‘teenage heroine that makes you want to smack her for her stupidity’ curse of YA literature. I don’t know if it got a bit better towards the end, or if I just got used to it.
-There were cringy moments that personally rubbed me the wrong way. Felt like cringingness for the sake of cringingness – and while I know some people are fans of that, I am not.
I do think it’s good read… if you don’t mind being left with more questions than answers and completing the world you’re reading about in your head instead of getting it from the book, or feeling like you just watched a nice sci-fi movie, instead of reading a novel, and I also think I’ll try to pick up the sequel when it comes out, but I do think it leaves a pretty noticeable ‘something’s missing’ aftertaste.
Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A book captivating enough to make me ignore the fact that I hate a lot of its ideas.
This book is written well enough so that I couldn’t stop turning pages, even though after every chapter I kept thinking “torture, intrigues, love triangles, spies, and disgusting people who get off humiliating others? I like none of those things and don’t really want to be reading about them… especially now”. In fact I actually had to skip through some of the more unpleasant parts closer to the end.
And yet, I think this is one of the better YA books out there, just from the way it’s written, especially for people who don’t mind the above mentioned.
I do sincerely hope, thought, that the second book will contain less of the themes I hate to read through, and more of new original ideas and good writing. Though I’ll probably buy it regardless, since I’m interested to see where the story will go.
Keina Daria 