topics on my mind

[pantryslut]

-- playwrights, condescension, teaching tools, and moms who seem to lose the ability to speak to other people as intelligent adults (yes, this is all one topic)

-- what to write for next week's writer's group

-- the structure of road novels

-- babies

-- what I should do for Halloween (see below)

-- what food I should prepare for said Halloween party

-- how to remain sane once the clock changes at the end of the month

-- sex

-- Whether November will be as crazy as October

-- upcoming porn judging frenzies

-- the article I should be writing, and when I will do the research, and how I am already over the original due date

-- what I should have for lunch

-- what I should have for dinner

-- more miscellaneous writing tasks

-- how other people (i.e. typical readers) may not be as concerned with novel structure as I (i.e. a writerly type) am, and how that may influence my enjoyment/non-enjoyment of certain popular and well-regarded novels that seem to me predictable and excessively drawn out

-- shoes

Comments

[redbird]

I think they've postponed the clock change.

[redbird]

Disregard previous comment: apparently this won't happen until 2007.

road novels

[bucky-sinister.livejournal.com]

i'm interested in these.
Do you count Heart of Darkness? Even though it's on a river? Where does one start? Jack London's The Road? Kerouac's On The Road? Holmes' Go?

how about all the gen x road movies/novels, like Fast Sofa? do you count Gifford's Wild At Heart?

Re: road novels

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in the structure of road novels right now b/c I am (ostensibly) working on a road novel Thing. So I count anything that gives me an idea of how to string stuff together without seeming random, meandering, episodic, and pointless.

So right now I am re-reading Flaming Iguanas b/c it was the closest thing at hand. I think I will take a swing at On the Road shortly as well.