I found this meme over at The Bluestocking Society and thought I would give it a whirl. Feel free to take it and do it yourself too.
Hardback or trade paperback or mass market paperback?
I like both kinds of paperback, though I like trade slightly more.
Bookmark or dog-ear?
I bookmark to remember where I left off, and I dog-ear to remember what I want to reread and write down.
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
I don't alphabetize. I'm more into how they look on the shelf (by size and all).
Keep, throw away or sell?
I only keep if it is life-changing (otherwise I would have more than I have room for). Otherwise I let people mooch or give away. What kind of person throws away books?
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
I'm not big on hardcovers but when I have them, I keep it.
Last book you bought?
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti. Impulse buy for $1!
Last book someone bought for you?
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
What are some of the books on your to-buy list?
I have hundreds on my to-read list, but to buy and own? I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
Collection (short stories, same author) or anthology (short stories, different author)?
Collections.
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
Harry Potter!
Morning reading, afternoon reading, or nighttime reading?
All day reading? :) But seriously... nighttime.
The books you need to go with other books on your shelves?
I'm not sure what this means. Honestly, the last thing I "need" is more books :)
Do you read anywhere and anytime you can or do you have a set reading time and/or place?
I carry books everywhere just in case. I mostly read before bed but I also read when I am waiting for someone or alone in a restaurant or something.
Do you have seasonal reading habits?
No, not really.
Do you read one book at a time or do you have two or more books going at once?
Multiple, multiple, multiple. Forget one or two, it is usually more like five.
What are your pet peeves about the way people treat books?
I don’t like checking a book out of the library and finding food on the pages. That skeeves me out.
Name one book you surprised yourself by liking.
"The Metamorphosis." I didn't expect to dislike it but I didn't expect to be so blown away either.
How often do you read a book and not review it on your blog? What are your reasons for not blogging about a book?
I'd say of ever 3-5 books I read, I blog about one. The reason is laziness.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
This is a meme I took from Stu. It is a list of banned books - I will be bolding the ones I've read and completed and italicizing ones I've sort of read :)
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran (excerpts)
#5 Arabian Nights (almost entirely)
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (children's version as a child)
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (excerpts for a class)
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (only read Song of Myself)
#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (half)
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (started it, abandoned it)
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (many times!)
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (started it, abandoned it when I was 19)
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (childhood)
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair (excerpts for a class)
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys (excerpts for a class)
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (read half, been meaning to finish)
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (many times!)
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (summer reading assignment when I was 13)
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud (excerpts)
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (many times!)
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (in 5th grade, don't remember much)
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (childhood)
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (most of it)
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran (excerpts)
#5 Arabian Nights (almost entirely)
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (children's version as a child)
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (excerpts for a class)
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (only read Song of Myself)
#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (half)
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (started it, abandoned it)
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (many times!)
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (started it, abandoned it when I was 19)
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (childhood)
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair (excerpts for a class)
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys (excerpts for a class)
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (read half, been meaning to finish)
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (many times!)
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (summer reading assignment when I was 13)
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud (excerpts)
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (many times!)
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (in 5th grade, don't remember much)
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (childhood)
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (most of it)
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
I joined the Sunday Salon, which means that once a week I will be blogging about books I am reading - yay! I know this is a writing blog but I also know that you won't mind because:
a) if you're a writer, you're a reader
b) I will be reading and discussing some super cool writing books
c) I'll keep it interesting, I promise
a) if you're a writer, you're a reader
b) I will be reading and discussing some super cool writing books
c) I'll keep it interesting, I promise
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Stolen from Andi because blog theft is all part of the biz...
What’s the last thing you wrote?
Still plugging away at my domestic violence feature.
Was it any good?
Yes, though I want it to be better, and it will.
What’s the first thing you wrote that you still have?
Wow, I don't have any of the stories or scripts I wrote as a child, unfortunately. I will have to say copies of my junior high school newspaper - I was on the staff.
Write poetry?
Yes.
Angsty poetry?
In my teens :)
Favorite genre of writing?
Non-fiction ... fiction is hard!
Most fun character you’ve ever created?
Since I am fairly new to the fiction game, I have mainly based characters on real people, but the most fun character dreamed up out of my head was a fictitious girlfriend for my real-life friend. Her name was Xena and she was a rebel to the extreme. A real pip.
Most annoying character you’ve ever created?
Probably the same one :) She did not have very good interpersonal skills, that's for sure.
Best plot you’ve ever created?
My novel plot, which I will not divulge.
Coolest plot twist you’ve ever created?
Same.
How often do you get writer’s block?
Too often :)
Write fan fiction?
No.
Do you type or write by hand?
I type. I only write by hand when I am unable to type and I am never happy about it.
Do you save everything you write?
Mainly.
Do you ever go back to an idea after you’ve abandoned it?
I rarely work on one project consistently, there is always back and forth.
What’s your favorite thing you’ve written?
Fiction: A short story, "Hot Chocolate and Sympathy," which is mainly about grief and perspective.
Nonfiction: It will be my domestic violence piece when I finish because the stories of the people I have met are so touching, it would be wonderful no matter who wrote it.
What’s everyone else’s favorite story that you’ve written?
People in my life tend to enjoy the stories I write in which they are characters!
Do you ever show people your work?
I show people published work. My boyfriend reads some of the unpublished stuff, and occasionally I will send it to a friend, but not often.
Did you ever write a novel?
Not yet, no.
Ever written romance or angsty teen drama?
Yes! But I was so young then so you can hardly hold it against me.
What’s your favorite setting for your characters?
I don't really have a favorite - I have put them on the streets of New York in winter, in a truck cross-country, and in a car on a rainy night in pursuit of an unfaithful lover.
How many writing projects are you working on right now?
The magazine feature and novel are my two main projects. My contributions to the Onion, the Feminist Review, Estella's Revenge and Nü Magazine are ongoing. I am also writing a family memoir that is coming to me two sentences at a time at random intervals so that should be done in about 20 years.
Do you want to write for a living?
Yes but I don't see myself as a full-time novelist or anything. It would be wonderful to write creative nonfiction for activist causes.
Have you ever won an award for your writing?
When I was fifteen, my short story won "Honorable Mention" in a publishing company competition.
Ever written anything in script or play format?
I wrote many plays as a child but I don't anymore.
What are your four favorite words?
Most of my favorite words are in Italian. Scifissimo ("the grossest"), scrittrice ("female writer"), and madonna ("mother of God," the equivalent of our exasperated "Jesus Christ!"). I also like "skutch" which is an Italian-American creation meaning "thorn in my side" (as in childhood memories of my mother yelling, "Stop being such a skutch!").
Do you ever write based on yourself?
I have appeared in various forms in short stories. I can't help it; I know me best.
What character have you created that is most like yourself?
I have different incarnations in different stories. I have even been male. The funny part is when I am editing and come across an accidental "April" reference :)
Where do you get ideas for your characters?
Many people in my life have been characters. I have also created characters that combine aspects of different people.
Do you ever write based on your dreams?
No, my dreams are too bizarre.
Do you favor happy endings, sad endings, or cliff-hangers?
As a reader, I prefer happy endings that are not nauseating. I like when a major difficulty leads to something positive but not unrealistic. I do think, however, that if you are really trying to get a social message across, sad endings get the job done better than any other kind. Look at novels like "A Fine Balance." I was depressed for days over that one. The world is full of sad endings and will only become better when more people are made aware of them, in my opinion.
Have you ever written based on artwork you’ve seen?
No, I haven't, but that's an excellent idea.
Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write?
Absolutely. I am an editor at heart. I first knew that when I realized I was editing people in my head as they spoke to me :)
Ever write anything in chatspeak (how r u?)
No... scifissimo!
Does music help you write?
I am very easily distracted. I can write with music only if there are no lyrics or if it is in a different language.
Quote something you’ve written. Whatever pops into your head.
"I’ll never forget the way he looked when I first saw him after the accident. I suppose that everyone in an intensive care unit looks pretty bad, but I was unprepared for the swelling, the blood, the unconsciousness. His face looked like a big balloon, as if he had gained fifty pounds since I had seen him only hours ago. His head was all gashed and cut – even more so in the back, where fortunately I could not see – and blood matted his hair... thick, dried evidence of a horror that would haunt me for years."
What’s the last thing you wrote?
Still plugging away at my domestic violence feature.
Was it any good?
Yes, though I want it to be better, and it will.
What’s the first thing you wrote that you still have?
Wow, I don't have any of the stories or scripts I wrote as a child, unfortunately. I will have to say copies of my junior high school newspaper - I was on the staff.
Write poetry?
Yes.
Angsty poetry?
In my teens :)
Favorite genre of writing?
Non-fiction ... fiction is hard!
Most fun character you’ve ever created?
Since I am fairly new to the fiction game, I have mainly based characters on real people, but the most fun character dreamed up out of my head was a fictitious girlfriend for my real-life friend. Her name was Xena and she was a rebel to the extreme. A real pip.
Most annoying character you’ve ever created?
Probably the same one :) She did not have very good interpersonal skills, that's for sure.
Best plot you’ve ever created?
My novel plot, which I will not divulge.
Coolest plot twist you’ve ever created?
Same.
How often do you get writer’s block?
Too often :)
Write fan fiction?
No.
Do you type or write by hand?
I type. I only write by hand when I am unable to type and I am never happy about it.
Do you save everything you write?
Mainly.
Do you ever go back to an idea after you’ve abandoned it?
I rarely work on one project consistently, there is always back and forth.
What’s your favorite thing you’ve written?
Fiction: A short story, "Hot Chocolate and Sympathy," which is mainly about grief and perspective.
Nonfiction: It will be my domestic violence piece when I finish because the stories of the people I have met are so touching, it would be wonderful no matter who wrote it.
What’s everyone else’s favorite story that you’ve written?
People in my life tend to enjoy the stories I write in which they are characters!
Do you ever show people your work?
I show people published work. My boyfriend reads some of the unpublished stuff, and occasionally I will send it to a friend, but not often.
Did you ever write a novel?
Not yet, no.
Ever written romance or angsty teen drama?
Yes! But I was so young then so you can hardly hold it against me.
What’s your favorite setting for your characters?
I don't really have a favorite - I have put them on the streets of New York in winter, in a truck cross-country, and in a car on a rainy night in pursuit of an unfaithful lover.
How many writing projects are you working on right now?
The magazine feature and novel are my two main projects. My contributions to the Onion, the Feminist Review, Estella's Revenge and Nü Magazine are ongoing. I am also writing a family memoir that is coming to me two sentences at a time at random intervals so that should be done in about 20 years.
Do you want to write for a living?
Yes but I don't see myself as a full-time novelist or anything. It would be wonderful to write creative nonfiction for activist causes.
Have you ever won an award for your writing?
When I was fifteen, my short story won "Honorable Mention" in a publishing company competition.
Ever written anything in script or play format?
I wrote many plays as a child but I don't anymore.
What are your four favorite words?
Most of my favorite words are in Italian. Scifissimo ("the grossest"), scrittrice ("female writer"), and madonna ("mother of God," the equivalent of our exasperated "Jesus Christ!"). I also like "skutch" which is an Italian-American creation meaning "thorn in my side" (as in childhood memories of my mother yelling, "Stop being such a skutch!").
Do you ever write based on yourself?
I have appeared in various forms in short stories. I can't help it; I know me best.
What character have you created that is most like yourself?
I have different incarnations in different stories. I have even been male. The funny part is when I am editing and come across an accidental "April" reference :)
Where do you get ideas for your characters?
Many people in my life have been characters. I have also created characters that combine aspects of different people.
Do you ever write based on your dreams?
No, my dreams are too bizarre.
Do you favor happy endings, sad endings, or cliff-hangers?
As a reader, I prefer happy endings that are not nauseating. I like when a major difficulty leads to something positive but not unrealistic. I do think, however, that if you are really trying to get a social message across, sad endings get the job done better than any other kind. Look at novels like "A Fine Balance." I was depressed for days over that one. The world is full of sad endings and will only become better when more people are made aware of them, in my opinion.
Have you ever written based on artwork you’ve seen?
No, I haven't, but that's an excellent idea.
Are you concerned with spelling and grammar as you write?
Absolutely. I am an editor at heart. I first knew that when I realized I was editing people in my head as they spoke to me :)
Ever write anything in chatspeak (how r u?)
No... scifissimo!
Does music help you write?
I am very easily distracted. I can write with music only if there are no lyrics or if it is in a different language.
Quote something you’ve written. Whatever pops into your head.
"I’ll never forget the way he looked when I first saw him after the accident. I suppose that everyone in an intensive care unit looks pretty bad, but I was unprepared for the swelling, the blood, the unconsciousness. His face looked like a big balloon, as if he had gained fifty pounds since I had seen him only hours ago. His head was all gashed and cut – even more so in the back, where fortunately I could not see – and blood matted his hair... thick, dried evidence of a horror that would haunt me for years."
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Meme #1
I seriously love memes. I don't know if it's the writer or exhibitionist in me, but anyway... Here is one I got from Coyote Underground.
1. Do you have a favorite writing instrument?
The computer. I have been so spoiled by computers that I can't really write without them. I can, but my hand gets crampy very soon and I can't get thoughts down as fast as I would like. I type at like 90 or 100 wpm so I can just spew forth my thoughts onto a computer.
2. Do you imbue said favored writing instrument with special powers; for example, the ability to jump start your work?
No, because I can always sit in front of a blank screen and feel, you know, blank.
3. Are you superstitious or analytical about your muse?
I never really thought about a muse. If anything, I write better when I feel depressed than when I am happy, so I can't say that anyone inspires me (or it would be an insult to them :).
4. Is it better to write or to have written?
I won't lie, I love the feeling of having finished something that I feel has turned out well, but I wouldn't be a writer if I didn't say, "to write." Continually.
5. There is a certain celestial alignment present in many famous writer’s astrological charts. Whether or not you believe in astrology, is there something different about you that made you a writer?
That would be a cool thing, to be able to confirm that I'm meant to be a writer ;) I think that I express myself well and love writing so much that I must be one.
1. Do you have a favorite writing instrument?
The computer. I have been so spoiled by computers that I can't really write without them. I can, but my hand gets crampy very soon and I can't get thoughts down as fast as I would like. I type at like 90 or 100 wpm so I can just spew forth my thoughts onto a computer.
2. Do you imbue said favored writing instrument with special powers; for example, the ability to jump start your work?
No, because I can always sit in front of a blank screen and feel, you know, blank.
3. Are you superstitious or analytical about your muse?
I never really thought about a muse. If anything, I write better when I feel depressed than when I am happy, so I can't say that anyone inspires me (or it would be an insult to them :).
4. Is it better to write or to have written?
I won't lie, I love the feeling of having finished something that I feel has turned out well, but I wouldn't be a writer if I didn't say, "to write." Continually.
5. There is a certain celestial alignment present in many famous writer’s astrological charts. Whether or not you believe in astrology, is there something different about you that made you a writer?
That would be a cool thing, to be able to confirm that I'm meant to be a writer ;) I think that I express myself well and love writing so much that I must be one.
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