Misplaced faith
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
An explanation:
because several twitter users have been asking me what I am writing about, and also due to the fact I never use this blog anymore (I instead default to my wordpress one), I will take more than 140 characters to explain:
I have been playing around with an idea for writing for quite some time now, originally basing it off of my growing up through the foster care system and what I went through there. It then evolved when I wrote some of it and let friends read it. They identified with my main character's struggles and shared some of their own with me.
It then went to a focus on brotherhood in the foster care system: of how people will meet and establish relationships. As the story progressed, I began to realise that there was a deeper undercurrent: how almost everyone involved had some inner secret to work through, how they all had quirks and fears and difficult mindsets to work through.
It then evolved to a story that, while foster care takes a background, looks at kids who have been through difficult situations, trying to work through their own problems and helping each other in a system that, rather than 'foster care', actually limits the growth of individuals by shipping them around on an all-too often basis. It is an examination on how they slowly open up to one another, whether it is the rape victim who refuses to talk about the incident, or the deaf-mute who is actually neither, or the one who believes himself to be a character in a fiction novel and, as such, is wondering about his mortality (but what could have caused this ?).
All in all, it is just an examination of things, from the state of the care received, to the actual identities that these kids take on, as well as the labels thrust upon them. In a system where you are set up to fail, what does it take to succeed ?
That is what it is about.
It is possibly the most that anyone will ever get to look into the inner workings of my mind. It is also very difficult for me to explain outright; as I am still writing, the ideas are still swirling around. Today it could be about X, tomorrow about Y. So, hopefully this mostly generic idea will help give a sample as to what it could be about.
-dw
I have been playing around with an idea for writing for quite some time now, originally basing it off of my growing up through the foster care system and what I went through there. It then evolved when I wrote some of it and let friends read it. They identified with my main character's struggles and shared some of their own with me.
It then went to a focus on brotherhood in the foster care system: of how people will meet and establish relationships. As the story progressed, I began to realise that there was a deeper undercurrent: how almost everyone involved had some inner secret to work through, how they all had quirks and fears and difficult mindsets to work through.
It then evolved to a story that, while foster care takes a background, looks at kids who have been through difficult situations, trying to work through their own problems and helping each other in a system that, rather than 'foster care', actually limits the growth of individuals by shipping them around on an all-too often basis. It is an examination on how they slowly open up to one another, whether it is the rape victim who refuses to talk about the incident, or the deaf-mute who is actually neither, or the one who believes himself to be a character in a fiction novel and, as such, is wondering about his mortality (but what could have caused this ?).
All in all, it is just an examination of things, from the state of the care received, to the actual identities that these kids take on, as well as the labels thrust upon them. In a system where you are set up to fail, what does it take to succeed ?
That is what it is about.
It is possibly the most that anyone will ever get to look into the inner workings of my mind. It is also very difficult for me to explain outright; as I am still writing, the ideas are still swirling around. Today it could be about X, tomorrow about Y. So, hopefully this mostly generic idea will help give a sample as to what it could be about.
-dw
Monday, July 20, 2009
A serious post.
This is in no way, shape, or form any form of sarcasm, satire, or anything close to that.
Some people have been asking me why I feel the need to blog about my being gay. I have received IMs and whatnot, and I have finally decided to crumble.
I have created a new blog elsewhere that deals specifically with the GLBTQ topic. From this point on, I will try to keep things here legal/political. If you would like the new url, ask.
Some people have been asking me why I feel the need to blog about my being gay. I have received IMs and whatnot, and I have finally decided to crumble.
I have created a new blog elsewhere that deals specifically with the GLBTQ topic. From this point on, I will try to keep things here legal/political. If you would like the new url, ask.
Holy Cow !
My friend's book got reviewed: http://jenre-wellread.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-island-song-by-alan-chin.html (you should go read the review)
Also, check out that entire website for the m/m romance sort of stuff. I know it is officially followed !
In other news, for Florida/Orlando residents, I continue to suggest Pom Pom's Teahouse and Sandwicheria. Very friendly staff, and AMAZING food !
In any case, I am off to the bookstore to purchase two new books. ^^ Good news, yes ?
I know, totally a let down for news, but nothing has happened, short of my getting restraining orders placed against a crazy ex. Oh, fun times.
Also, check out that entire website for the m/m romance sort of stuff. I know it is officially followed !
In other news, for Florida/Orlando residents, I continue to suggest Pom Pom's Teahouse and Sandwicheria. Very friendly staff, and AMAZING food !
In any case, I am off to the bookstore to purchase two new books. ^^ Good news, yes ?
I know, totally a let down for news, but nothing has happened, short of my getting restraining orders placed against a crazy ex. Oh, fun times.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Continuing a rant, plus a book list:
In response to yesterday's rant, the point is this: if you have spoiled food, I will throw it away. Do not bitch at me because I do not give a flying fuck.
Yay, happy sparkly shinies !
I was asked to put the fifteen best books I have read (in no particular order). So, here you go:
1) Catcher in the Rye
2) Boy Meets Boy
3) Wizard's First Rule
4) Pride and Prejudice
5) Hound of the Baskervilles
6) Mystery on the Orient Express
7) A Game of Thrones
8) Candide
9) Snow Crash
10) Dialogues of Plato
11) Azumanga Daioh
12) Through The Looking Glass
13) Alas, Babylon
14) Martin the Warrior
15) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Yay, happy sparkly shinies !
I was asked to put the fifteen best books I have read (in no particular order). So, here you go:
1) Catcher in the Rye
2) Boy Meets Boy
3) Wizard's First Rule
4) Pride and Prejudice
5) Hound of the Baskervilles
6) Mystery on the Orient Express
7) A Game of Thrones
8) Candide
9) Snow Crash
10) Dialogues of Plato
11) Azumanga Daioh
12) Through The Looking Glass
13) Alas, Babylon
14) Martin the Warrior
15) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Sunday, July 12, 2009
A rant
Hey guys, possibly the quickest rant in the world:
if you live with other people and arbitrarily make decisions which affect them, do not act high and mighty when they clean up after your messes and replace items where they belong that you did not desire to be replaced. "ipso facto", you are not that fabulous, nor should you feel any sort of umbrage.
... fucking twat.
if you live with other people and arbitrarily make decisions which affect them, do not act high and mighty when they clean up after your messes and replace items where they belong that you did not desire to be replaced. "ipso facto", you are not that fabulous, nor should you feel any sort of umbrage.
... fucking twat.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The BBC Book List
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
I am such a nerd.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible- X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
Total: 10
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -X
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger- X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - X
Total: 9
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - X
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
26 Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson- X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll- X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- X
Total: 10
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen - X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - X
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
Total: 10
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving- X
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -X
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery-X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan- X
Total: 9
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons- X
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - X
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -X
Total: 9
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - X
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding- X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - X
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X
Total: 10
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -X
75 Ulysses - James Joyce- X
76 The Inferno – Dante - X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - X
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray- X
80 Possession - AS Byatt – X
Total: 9
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - X
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - X
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -X
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - X
Total: 9
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - X
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - X
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - X
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - X
Total: 10
Supreme total: 95/100
I am such a nerd.
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