Speaking of short stories - I've been thinking some time in late summer, we should sit down and dedicate some time to making short stories. Kind of like Idol, but with no drama and no voting and just making all kinds of short stories.
(And this has no relation to the fact that I'm putting off a paper right now by writing a short story type thing that's actually also enabling me to put off finishing my mystery. I think I've leveled up in procrastination.)
I can't take my school's lit mag, it makes me laugh so hard I almost pee.
From what I've heard of the plot, it needed some heavy editing in the beginning (the plot didn't start until a third of the way through the book,) and the protagonist started out as something of an asshole. *Sigh.* Personally, I think it was a great idea, but the main problem is that the author felt compelled to write the main character as a "literary protagonist," meaning a rude, pretentious, and sexist straight white dude who thinks his problems are of great importance. (He gets marginally better on the sexism.) If they hadn't been aiming for literary pretensions and had just written a character for the plot without bothering to make him "representative of the human condition," I think they would have had an excellent novel. At least the Russian guy was legitimately just a nice dude in over his head in a fucked-up world.
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(And this has no relation to the fact that I'm putting off a paper right now by writing a short story type thing that's actually also enabling me to put off finishing my mystery. I think I've leveled up in procrastination.)
I can't take my school's lit mag, it makes me laugh so hard I almost pee.
From what I've heard of the plot, it needed some heavy editing in the beginning (the plot didn't start until a third of the way through the book,) and the protagonist started out as something of an asshole. *Sigh.* Personally, I think it was a great idea, but the main problem is that the author felt compelled to write the main character as a "literary protagonist," meaning a rude, pretentious, and sexist straight white dude who thinks his problems are of great importance. (He gets marginally better on the sexism.) If they hadn't been aiming for literary pretensions and had just written a character for the plot without bothering to make him "representative of the human condition," I think they would have had an excellent novel. At least the Russian guy was legitimately just a nice dude in over his head in a fucked-up world.