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shadowkatIntroduce Yourself with Seven Books (borrowed from Twitter)
Ulysses- James Joyce
Pattern Recognition— William Gibson
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Pale Fire - V. Nabokov
Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
Although should add...Ann McCaffrey's Dragon Rider Series, Sheri Tepper's Grass, Maria Doria Russell's The Sparrow, Elizabeth Peters Vicky Bliss Mysteries, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orzy, Dune by Frank Herbert,
and The Seville Communion by Arturo Pereze-Reverte. Also, The Ice House by Minette Walters.
God, I love books. The lovely thing about books is you can take them pretty much anywhere, they don't criticize, they don't leave you unless you want them too, and they are always dependable.
Coworker: Are you one of those people who always has a book in their hand?
Me: Pretty much. Although now it is - have Kindle, will travel. I don't really go anywhere without a book handy.
Co-worker: I didn't mean to call you a nerd, although you kind of are -
Me: Eh, why?
Co-worker: how you are talking about theater and television -
Me: More Culture Junkie. Or Culture Nerd. Or maybe Culture Geek?
New Co-worker thinks I'm hilarious. Actually quite a few of them do. They've discovered my dry self-deprecating wit. (They don't realize it's deliberate. And can at times be scathing. You - probably do realize that by now. Sorry, well not really, if I was I'd change, and I don't, because I like my wit.)
Speaking of books - I've gotten to Megan Markle finally in Harry's Memoir, Spare. And dear god, it was love at first sight. He was struck speechless with her beauty. (She looks like a million other people to me, but then so does he. Most people look alike to me. It's rare that people's faces stand out.) I feel like I'm reading a romance all of a sudden. Actually that's how Soap Twitter and Romance Twitter responded to it. So, most likely am?
John F Kennedy Jr, I thought was attractive, Elvis was attractive, so too was David Bowie, Prince, most of the Beatles (except for Ringo), but Harry not so much. The Windsors do nothing for me. Diana, I thought was boring too. Too horsey looking, with long noses.
And in Artist's Way - she finally stopped whinging about Crazymakers. (I realized BYT is most likely how she would define a Crazymaker.) Actually she makes a few good points about collaborations - and why they haven't worked for me. One of three or four things always happen:
1. I end up taking over the collaboration, and doing it all myself, with the others either just doing little portions of it or nothing at all, due to being uninterested and not willing to do much, and having no ideas.
2. I end up playing negotiator/mediator and coordinating (this happens to me the most and is what I tend to do for a living and my church kept trying to get me to do, and I kept saying no.) This happened with a collaborative fanfic I did once in 2002. I spent the whole time coordinating and mediating conflicts. There were six or seven participants including myself, and they didn't agree on anything.
3. Someone takes over, and I abdicate to their creative vision. Even if it was originally mine, and they change the whole thing. (this happened with the church)
4. Someone dictates their own vision and no one else gets a say
I don't find collaborations very helpful artistically speaking. Egos always get in the way. Julie Cameron seems to second this in The Artist's Way - and it was particularly true in Hollywood.
I do however wonder what it is about self-help books that the writers always feel the need to spend the first two or three chapters whinging about the folks making their lives difficult or are toxic to them. Cameron at least states towards the end of the Crazymaker diatribe that we are our own crazymakers, and whether we want to admit or not, we are all crazymakers to someone, when in the midst of a creative endeavor or struggling to be so. That surprised me.
Ulysses- James Joyce
Pattern Recognition— William Gibson
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Pale Fire - V. Nabokov
Metamorphosis-Franz Kafka
Although should add...Ann McCaffrey's Dragon Rider Series, Sheri Tepper's Grass, Maria Doria Russell's The Sparrow, Elizabeth Peters Vicky Bliss Mysteries, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orzy, Dune by Frank Herbert,
and The Seville Communion by Arturo Pereze-Reverte. Also, The Ice House by Minette Walters.
God, I love books. The lovely thing about books is you can take them pretty much anywhere, they don't criticize, they don't leave you unless you want them too, and they are always dependable.
Coworker: Are you one of those people who always has a book in their hand?
Me: Pretty much. Although now it is - have Kindle, will travel. I don't really go anywhere without a book handy.
Co-worker: I didn't mean to call you a nerd, although you kind of are -
Me: Eh, why?
Co-worker: how you are talking about theater and television -
Me: More Culture Junkie. Or Culture Nerd. Or maybe Culture Geek?
New Co-worker thinks I'm hilarious. Actually quite a few of them do. They've discovered my dry self-deprecating wit. (They don't realize it's deliberate. And can at times be scathing. You - probably do realize that by now. Sorry, well not really, if I was I'd change, and I don't, because I like my wit.)
Speaking of books - I've gotten to Megan Markle finally in Harry's Memoir, Spare. And dear god, it was love at first sight. He was struck speechless with her beauty. (She looks like a million other people to me, but then so does he. Most people look alike to me. It's rare that people's faces stand out.) I feel like I'm reading a romance all of a sudden. Actually that's how Soap Twitter and Romance Twitter responded to it. So, most likely am?
John F Kennedy Jr, I thought was attractive, Elvis was attractive, so too was David Bowie, Prince, most of the Beatles (except for Ringo), but Harry not so much. The Windsors do nothing for me. Diana, I thought was boring too. Too horsey looking, with long noses.
And in Artist's Way - she finally stopped whinging about Crazymakers. (I realized BYT is most likely how she would define a Crazymaker.) Actually she makes a few good points about collaborations - and why they haven't worked for me. One of three or four things always happen:
1. I end up taking over the collaboration, and doing it all myself, with the others either just doing little portions of it or nothing at all, due to being uninterested and not willing to do much, and having no ideas.
2. I end up playing negotiator/mediator and coordinating (this happens to me the most and is what I tend to do for a living and my church kept trying to get me to do, and I kept saying no.) This happened with a collaborative fanfic I did once in 2002. I spent the whole time coordinating and mediating conflicts. There were six or seven participants including myself, and they didn't agree on anything.
3. Someone takes over, and I abdicate to their creative vision. Even if it was originally mine, and they change the whole thing. (this happened with the church)
4. Someone dictates their own vision and no one else gets a say
I don't find collaborations very helpful artistically speaking. Egos always get in the way. Julie Cameron seems to second this in The Artist's Way - and it was particularly true in Hollywood.
I do however wonder what it is about self-help books that the writers always feel the need to spend the first two or three chapters whinging about the folks making their lives difficult or are toxic to them. Cameron at least states towards the end of the Crazymaker diatribe that we are our own crazymakers, and whether we want to admit or not, we are all crazymakers to someone, when in the midst of a creative endeavor or struggling to be so. That surprised me.