Love of Literature

[jackofallgeeks]

About 58 pages into this Neil Stephenson book, Cryptonomicon, and I think I really like it -- aside from his disdainful tendancy toward the more vulgar words in the English language, though not nearly as horrendous as Stephen King, and probably only irksome to one such as I.

Anyways, That's 58 pages, and I've had the book for at least a week in not more. Granted, a good deal of that lapse is due to the lack of time I've put toward reading it, but... It's a large 910-page novel.

I want to write. I ALMOST have an idea -- a few characters and a rough outline for relationships, but the ever-elusive, all-important element, Plot, still evades me. And as anyone who has ever created, I doubt my own abilities.

Still, it's a good book, for the 1/18th of it I've read...

(I have half a mind to stay up all night reading this, and if not for the fact that I need to get up and drive and thing and work tomorrow, I just might have...)

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh, before I forget... a little somethin' somethin' is in the mail to you. Hopefully it doesn't take 3 years to get there. ^___^;

... I've been working on a story for ages now. I've got a plot, I've got the characters, I've even got some idea of how it all plays out to the end. The sad thing? I'm a horrible writer. Words are always getting in my waaaaayyyy... Yeah. Something like that.

Love!
-Mel

[photoholic62.livejournal.com]

You are not alone. Vulgar words in both movies and books is irksome to me also. We don't use such language in our house. While I am not so niave as to think my children don't hear those words elsewhere, I am niave enough to think they should not hear them in their home. I don't believe in censoring what my children read, but we do tend to hold certain movies to watch after they are asleep. It does not bother me for them to see sex scenes, yet language and violence, especially when they are just token additives to a movie to attempt to compensate for lack of plot...well, so that bugs me.

[cohagen.livejournal.com]

Andrew, I'd love to hear your ideas on whatever you're working on.

I've been writing ever since I got out of high school. I have about 75 pages of a novel done. I need to finish it.

As far as the writing process goes for me, I conjure up a story, then create the characters. From there I figure out what their personalities, love interests and jobs are. In all honesty, describing how they look isn't all that important. Names are imortant.

Recently I've been working on a movie script, and I enjoy writing it more than novels and short stories.

[thismortalquill.livejournal.com]

I just started the book and it's really slow going for me. I like it, I think, but even for speed-demon-novel-a-night me, I'm only sixteen pages in and I've been trying to read for three days.

That's unheard of.

I think it's the writing style. Once I get further into the book I know it'll change for me, but for now it fails to hold my interest longer than a few pages at a time. Which is strange because I really do find the book interesting. Hmm..