World Literature Blues
04 Dec 2010 3 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Ahdaf Soueif, Celtx, Chinue Achebe, Joe Sacco, Palestine, The Map of Love, Things fall apart
I also have coursework to do, which does put a crimp in my plans for literary world domination. The subject is fun, though, and is hopefully, giving me more tools with my writing.
But flicking through a pile of books looking for that one quote, watching the word count climb slower than a sloth on a bank holiday, and forgetting my initial argument, all conspire to leave no time or patience for write.
(Having read through the last two paragraphs, I suddenly remember my media lessons. Too many clauses. Must think like Heminway. A lot. More.)
So, the subject is something-I-decide, on some World-Literature worthies that-I-decide. Chances are I will go for Chinue Achebe’s Things Fall apart, Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love, and Joe Sacco’s Palestine. The theme will be resistance-writing, and the three different voices, and how they capture the struggle their books embody.
Or something like that. My problem is that I rarely know what the end product will look like. Time to get the Celtx quecards on, and shuffle dem cards!
Dec 05, 2010 @ 21:36:17
I’m so confused! That is so why I am not on that course! And yes, I have used two, soon to be three exclamation marks, as well as having started a sentence with ‘and’!
Dec 06, 2010 @ 02:35:02
Writing like Hemingway. Means putting in less. So that you end with more.
I am going to have to read that ”Journalism Online’ again. Just to be sure that I am getting it right.
The problem is, my writing-bone structures sentances with may clauses. All to do with narratve voice, and pace. Hemingway-speak cuts down on that. A lot.
Wot fun.
Dec 06, 2010 @ 15:43:23
Yeah good luck with getting hold of a copy of that! Just go to problogger.com, thats what i use.
By the way, you do know you’re pink right?