The problem with deciding to keep a blog is deciding what to blog about. When first creating quickly learner I thought that my meandering thoughts and anecdotes would provide enough fuel for fairly regular posting, but as it turns out my life isn’t really all that entertaining. As such I, as was pretty inevitable, have neglected to post since the original entry below. To be honest, I needed structure. I needed something to keep me posting: in short, something to write about. Always a believer in sticking with what you know, I have turned to literature.
For the foreseeable future I’m just going to write about books, plays, poems, articles, anything written that I stumble upon during the course of my day. Perhaps not the most original idea, but it’s a start. I think this approach serves the double benefit of keeping me reading new and varied things while also encouraging me to keep writing. I have two literature degrees after all, so I might as well put them to some use. So, to begin, here follow my thoughts on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
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Not a bad idea, since most reviews say more about the reviewer than the material:) That is, it still counts as "self-expression".
Ever read anything else of Bradbury's? I read an article he wrote, once, and he talked about his habit of writing a few hundred words a day (indiscriminate to his subject; he might write horror on one day and schmaltz the next) and the idea that those scribbles are the sources of his books: vignettes, all cobbled together. I say that to say: maybe that's why he seems disjointed sometimes?
Curious to see what you read next.
I haven't read any of his other stuff actually - this is all I've got to go on. That's interesting about his writing habits though; in hindsight it would explain a lot, though I think the stylistic chopping-and-changing really suits this novel in particular. Interested to see what his other efforts are like.
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