Patricia Mckillip is an...odd...writer. Her books are sometimes so full of of metaphor you feel like you're wading through a dream. And dreamlike, once you reach the end, you're not sure you can really remember what happened other than some vivid flashed here and there. I remember taking "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld" out of the school library three or four times over my years of highschool. I remembered reading it. I just didn't remember what happened. I didn't even remember particularly liking it but I had to know what happened in it. My favourite book of hers though is "The Sorceress and The Cygnet," a book so drenched in metaphor and imagery that you're not really sure what's going on from one moment to the next or where exactly this is all heading. You watch the story spin and turn on you until you're not sure what parts are real and what parts are something else. Somewhere along the line, everything gets murky and you're not sure who you're rooting for anymore. You're not sure if the bad guys really are bad. Maybe they're just misunderstood.
It makes me wonder what kind of person this author is.Her writing style is extremely unconventional. I've written imagery-ish things before and they're fun to do but other people never seem to like them as much as i do.... So how exactly did she manage to convince someone that this style would sell? And how did she succeed?
In other news, I finished writing up a story that was about 2000 words. It took me near forever, I usually do much shorter scenes. And it went nowhere I was planning it. It's really hard to resist the urge to edit it because I knew some of the things I was writing down were wrong... or at least not completely right. Little details. It's about 5:30 in the morning and I'm taking a break now. I'll get back to my pondering at six or so.
There's a write in I'm hoping to make later today so I shall tell you how that goes...
Went to a morning write in and had a few word wars. It got some words done, though not many per war. Still, I've hopefully masses about 750? *goes to count*
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word wars: 857
I didn't end up going to the write in in the eveng though. Instead I came home and fell asleep.
new total: 6533
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