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In the game.
Day nine is one-third written and will probably call for a beta-reader as well. Meta is tricky stuff. So in the meantime, here's this.
Day 10: In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Michael Chabon - "Shea as in Shea Stadium, Bon as in Bon Jovi." One of my favorite authors, and my dream of who I want to grow up to be: someone who writes what he wants to read and gets other people to want to read it, too. He clearly loves language and putting words together, and besides his ability to comment on the nature of being human in all its facets and myriad ways, knows how to tell a story, which is a skill that seems to be getting harder and harder to find.
He treats his writing as a serious job, which I admire and keep trying to emulate. He's doing his best get genre fiction on the table where it belongs with everything else, and for that alone I'd love what he does.
As wonderful as his works are, from melancholic introspective pieces to gung-ho adventures to short autobiographical essays, and as much as I love reading about the stories he makes up, it's the language that he uses that keeps me coming back. I still remember the first time I read his description of Hebrew from The Yiddish Policeman's Union: "That sort of language is never employed for human conversation. It's only for talking to God." After I read that, I had to stop for a moment, because I knew if I ever wrote anything that good and true, I'd know I'd done something right. I need to keep going to get there, and reading his books makes me want to fire up the laptop and hit the keyboard.
Day 10: In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Michael Chabon - "Shea as in Shea Stadium, Bon as in Bon Jovi." One of my favorite authors, and my dream of who I want to grow up to be: someone who writes what he wants to read and gets other people to want to read it, too. He clearly loves language and putting words together, and besides his ability to comment on the nature of being human in all its facets and myriad ways, knows how to tell a story, which is a skill that seems to be getting harder and harder to find.
He treats his writing as a serious job, which I admire and keep trying to emulate. He's doing his best get genre fiction on the table where it belongs with everything else, and for that alone I'd love what he does.
As wonderful as his works are, from melancholic introspective pieces to gung-ho adventures to short autobiographical essays, and as much as I love reading about the stories he makes up, it's the language that he uses that keeps me coming back. I still remember the first time I read his description of Hebrew from The Yiddish Policeman's Union: "That sort of language is never employed for human conversation. It's only for talking to God." After I read that, I had to stop for a moment, because I knew if I ever wrote anything that good and true, I'd know I'd done something right. I need to keep going to get there, and reading his books makes me want to fire up the laptop and hit the keyboard.