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The rambles, rants and raves of a writing newbie. |
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Here you'll find rants, rambles, raves and infinite digressions. Entries can jump from topic to topic without apparent order, maybe enclosing sudden insights - maybe not. You've been warned. |
| I've got the worst luck ever. I mean it. I found about a newbie writing contest, selected an item I thought as 'elegible' and was happily posting my entry... when I realised there was a 10KB limit to the contest. And my piece was over 11KB. Ah, heavens! I've always had problems with word/KB limits. Once, my friend asked me to write two pages about an anime character. I wrote 23. And when she dared me to write at least two pages about a theme she gave me, I couldn't bring myself to write a single page. It was very hard to fulfil it. Hell, Maths! |
| I'm really starting to think that maybe I'm making myself hated around here. No one likes harsh reviews. Particularly if you say something negative about a phrase they loved. Of course there are exceptions. There're always exceptions, except in Maths.^^ Just kidding. The thing is, I hate Maths. The numbers are so arbitrary, after all. You can say that 1 is 1, but what if 1 was 2? When I asked that to my mother, she said, "There, you're talking nonsense again". I agreed with her, after all I was talking about Maths, and it never made any sense to me. Now, Physics I liked. Then again, only Mechanical Physics. I never understood Eletromagnetism, I thought it surreal. Then I came across Relativism and I enjoyed it. Indeed, it looks more like sci-fi literature than Physics. I've always liked sci-fi. It began with Astronomy, really. I even owned a telescope. Then there came Star Trek, Asimov, Herbert. But what I really like is not sci-fi, its fiction in general. Impossible fiction, as I say it. I think it's called 'fantasy' or 'fantastical', I'm not sure. It's the kind of fiction that begins quite plainly, down-to-earth, and then introduces, little by little, in such a subtle manner you don't even notice it, the impossible. Before you realise, you're already believing in the supernatural, only to be faced again with reality - yes, because the author throws you back to it, making it as if it was all some product of your imagination. And it was, really. Maupassant's style. I gotta finish reading his stories. |
| You know, I think I'm too critical. I love nitpicking every story that fall into my hands. The problem is that I'm a better critic than I'm a writer. I guess that's why I don't write that much, I mean, I do write, but I throw most of it away. I'm the kind of person who can't read a book without writing something on it, be it a spelling correction or a comment on a paragraph. To make matters worse, I'm a bookworm. And a compulsive book buyer. Indeed, I buy books beyond my means. I imagine myself in the future, starving and homeless, but with a stack of brand-new books by my side. Besides, when I get obsessed over an author, I gotta have all of his/her books. And I'm deadly jealous of my books - I don't like to lend them to anyone, even to my parents. When I do lend them to someone, I feel broken-hearted for days. No wonder people think I'm eccentric. Well, I just love my books. Well, getting back to reviewing. I love reviewing, especially if I like what's written or when there're so many errors I can't help but correcting them. Not that I think I'm the one who has to teach all of the poor wanna-be writers out there. Hey, I'm a wanna-be writer. I'm not perfect... yet.^^ Kidding. It's just something embedded into my DNA. Somehow, I always blame it all on the DNA. Science has made life so much easier, hasn't it? :P |
| Today I logged in WDC only to find out I had been given an upgraded membership by some anonymous benefactor. First, I didn't know what to make of it. Who gave it to me? I was puzzled, then grateful. Now I can keep a diary - at least, until the gift expires - and rant away. Whoever you are, thank you for this gift. You've just made a die-hard ranter very happy.^^ |
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