At first I thought my degree meant I was smart because I read books; but all it ever confirmed was that I was obssessed enough with books to study them, buy them, writre about them, and chase after the notion that I could someday earn money writing them.
I'm pretty easy-going and have a healthy wish to get to know people within an...
more »At first I thought my degree meant I was smart because I read books; but all it ever confirmed was that I was obssessed enough with books to study them, buy them, writre about them, and chase after the notion that I could someday earn money writing them.
I'm pretty easy-going and have a healthy wish to get to know people within an acceptable age-range. I don't talk to infants. Yes, that makes me a jerk, but there's something about people being talked-back to that makes a conversation invigorating. I like talking about books in particular, whether good or bad, and preferably ones that I've read.
My literary discernment has died (snobbery?), and the wide aura of genre fiction has cracked the tint on my literary shades. My literary aspirations are dead, too. I don't want to change the novel anymore. I love the idea of fantasy: the differant worlds, races, species, dragons, monsters, swords, spirits, etc., that make up fantasy have a great potential for metaphor and art that I think is not tapped into by most fantasy writers, at least the ones that I've read. I find it sad for this genre to be so commercially driven. I made the decision maybe about a year ago to cleave my way into dark fatnasy fiction, also known as Sword & Sorcery. I like to think of my writing as Hard-Boiled Fatnasy.
An ant bit me one day and poisoned my find with the delusion that I have enough of an ability to learn good prose to write novels. My nights are lit by my laptop and bombarded with my fingers tapping the keyboard, mostly the delete button.
I like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, Robert E. Howard, and Garcia Marquez enough to consider them to be my influences. But I'm open to reading anything as long as I think it'll teach me something new about writing.
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