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I'm J. Mid twenties, wannabe writer, bookworm. Taking myself only a little too seriously. This is a place to track my progress, talk about my current projects, my tbr list, and really anything related to literature/writing that crosses my mind. My favourite genres are sci-fi and horror, but I'm not genrephobic.
So far, I've read two books by Banana Yoshimoto: Sweet Hereafter and Kitchen (+ the short story Moonlight Shadow).
Kitchen was definitely the one I enjoyed most— but, be it the fault of sloppy translations, I really struggle to see what it is that makes everyone else wanna tear out their hair in ecstasy.
The language is way too simple and repetitive for my liking. I've noticed both Korean and Japanese writers tend to have a more clear, linear and polished style, with shorter periods rather than long, rambling ones. This of course varies from book to book— it's certainly a refreshing quality!
However, with Yoshimoto, this characteristic is brought to its extreme conclusion; where it ceases to be enjoyable and veers into simplistic, obtuse. Again: this might be the translator's fault more than the author.
I'll probably read something else by her, if it happens to fall between my hands. But for right now, I'm not really a fan, and I'm not really interested.
• Kitchen — 3/5
• Moonlight Shadow — 1/5
• Sweet Hereafter — 2/5
Ok quick question what’s the last book you read that couldn’t put down? Like not even what was your last fave book but what’s the last book you absolutely had to stay up finishing even though it meant you were dead tired the next day? In the replies or tags, whichever, I just haven’t hit on that feeling in like a year and want to know everyone’s
every day I learn bot comments on ao3 are stooping lower and lower
anyway if you get a comment like this, chances are that they are bot and their goal is to do whatever it takes to get you to delete your work, most certainly (from what I’ve heard) it’s because they want to “safely” steal your work, use it to train their ai without you being able to rightfully claim ownership of your work since “there’s no proof that the work was stolen/was posted elsewhere first by you” because the original source has already been deleted.
THEY ARE ALL BOTS. at first it was “ao3 is deleting fics and your entire account will be affected unless you delete the fics yourself” then it was “this work contains contents that are illegal and they have already reported you and your fic to the police” (yes, that’s how desperate these bots are), and now it’s this.
report their comments to ao3 for spam—in this case, specifically, I think you may be able to report them for harassment too—and don’t pay attention to them, most importantly don’t delete your works, don’t feel discouraged by their comments. remember that they are bots and they mass comment something like this on people’s works at random to get people to delete their works. (or even if they’re not bot, they are still pathetic bullies who don’t deserve your time or attention.)
MORE ABOUT BOTS AND SCAMS PLAGUING AO3’S COMMENTS SECTION HERE
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Yes, I love tropes! Tell me all the tropes in the book!
No, I want a story blurb, not a checklist of tropes.
Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.
out of curiosity. I would love to hear folks' most hated book that was NOT assigned reading. what's a book that you picked up of your own volition but were deeply frustrated with? bone to pick etc?
hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one
Ok, I know I haven't updated this blog in a while — I've been in a sort of. Rut.
I'm having issues with my current, finished WIP. While editing, I realized I really don't like the writing style I went with ... It's far too, eh, flowery? It needs some serious slimming down.
So far I've edited 15/55k of the story. I'm asking for suggestions. Should I go back and re edit, making the writing simpler, or carry on writing while focusing on slimming down the language AND making sure the big points of the novel make sense?
bisexual women you could save the romantasy genre by writing about waifish poets and/ or fat lumberjacks instead of the exact same growling shadow daddy with rippling abs over and over you're the only ones who can help us now
okay so shadow daddy is like, he's the biggest hugest man in the world and he's like brooding and oversexed and dark and fucked up (but often secretly he's a super good guy who only ACTS like a miserable asshole to keep up appearances, so that the love interest can have the aesthetics of being morally grey while never being wrong about anything), he probably has shadow powers and he's absurdly strong, probably the ruler of a country. shadow daddy is a tsundere patriarch and he's in every single big name romantasy since acotar. and he's driving me to the fucking edge
editing is so fun. I'm learning what the story I wrote is about
sometimes after you learn what your story is about, you resolve to write a thematically appropriate sequel. this, unfortunately, means you have another section to edit, and now your story means two things. maybe more. imagine.
An attractive and rare fore edge painting of the last supper done painted around 1880 by Winifred Arthur - when closed the painting is hidden by the gilt edges
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the Writer Mood™ when you've got the shadow of a concept of a scene and a couple lines of dialogue bouncing around in your head like a screensaver and you have to be like buddy, come back when you're something coherent. i can't do anything with this.
I'm stumped on the level of detail about world building I should include in my story. For example: this alien population lives in houses constructed out of coral, on a large lake ...but coral does not grow in freshwater. Do I have to specify that there's some kind of hidden affluent that connects the lake to the sea, giving the water a level of salinity and allowing for the development of a hybrid species of coral??? Is this even relevant???? I feel like no one would care. But also someone would definitely care.
'The Bear' writer, Alex O'Keefe was arrested on a train for sitting while Black;
I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained. An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train. While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said “You’re not the minority anymore.” The police told me to leave the train, I refused and asked what was I doing illegally. They said I was disturbing the peace by not leaving the train. They pulled me off the train and arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one black person on the train. On the platform, the police detained me and interrogated me. Only black folks stayed nearby and recorded the arrest. When I demanded a lawyer and reminded them they didn’t even take a statement from the woman who complained they eventually released me. This country is growing more psycho by the day. What will you do about it?
Source: Instagram
Disheartening to know that not only did the conductor called and helped the pigs, the non-Black people also just sat by in silence. And yet, it's utterly unsurprising. Grandma snitching on a Black man for sitting unproperly is pure Carolyn Bryant behaviour and she deserves to die a slow, painful death.
And here are cops' badge numbers, dox them:
The Vampire Claudia!
How am I supposed to finish editing this WIP when every time I open the document I end up adding more writing? 😭
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