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Writing and Literature
Oct. 18th, 2011 10:48 pmSoooooo I got edited again in class last week and got very little negative feedback. A bit curious to me since the story's currently on a side bend from its main plot. (My class is about 1/3 of the way into what I've written on Queen's Choice, which is not yet finished.) I'm submitting another ten pages this week, and, following ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tainry's inspiring example, am planning to try and use NaNoWriMo to complete the thing.
Dirty little secret of me who has a B.A. in English: I don't actually like Dickens. This comes up because for I Googled "It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known." Which is apparently the ending of A Tale of Two Cities. The reason I was looking it up was because it occurred to me that in at least two Star Trek movies (II and IV) Kirk quotes literature and poetry. Maybe in VI as well? Can't remember who says what at the dinner with the Klingons. But somehow the phrase "well-read Starfleet captain" conjures an image of Picard to me, not Kirk. Maybe because Patrick Stewart is a classically trained Shakespearean actor, while William Shatner is... um? But apparently Kirk, though primarily known as a man of action, has a brain. I guess he would have to. He regularly plays chess with a half-Vulcan, after all. So then I went and reread Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit. :) Good fic.
As to why I don't care much for Dickens... I don't entirely know. I think it's something related to his worldview in most of his stories I've read, and the echoes of film noir (which I loathe) that I see there. I don't like the corrupt universe theory. Which is why I like (what I've read of) Mark Twain better. And I know that Dickens' social reform views are based on the horrors he experienced as a child, so there's cause there, but... it's just not to my tastes.
But that's enough on literature from me; it is late, I have finished my homework (editing my classmates' submissions), and so I should go to bed.
tainry's inspiring example, am planning to try and use NaNoWriMo to complete the thing.Dirty little secret of me who has a B.A. in English: I don't actually like Dickens. This comes up because for I Googled "It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known." Which is apparently the ending of A Tale of Two Cities. The reason I was looking it up was because it occurred to me that in at least two Star Trek movies (II and IV) Kirk quotes literature and poetry. Maybe in VI as well? Can't remember who says what at the dinner with the Klingons. But somehow the phrase "well-read Starfleet captain" conjures an image of Picard to me, not Kirk. Maybe because Patrick Stewart is a classically trained Shakespearean actor, while William Shatner is... um? But apparently Kirk, though primarily known as a man of action, has a brain. I guess he would have to. He regularly plays chess with a half-Vulcan, after all. So then I went and reread Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit. :) Good fic.
As to why I don't care much for Dickens... I don't entirely know. I think it's something related to his worldview in most of his stories I've read, and the echoes of film noir (which I loathe) that I see there. I don't like the corrupt universe theory. Which is why I like (what I've read of) Mark Twain better. And I know that Dickens' social reform views are based on the horrors he experienced as a child, so there's cause there, but... it's just not to my tastes.
But that's enough on literature from me; it is late, I have finished my homework (editing my classmates' submissions), and so I should go to bed.
