I have to clean my house and do laundry in a bit and I thought I would chat for a while. This year due to funemployment I have been reading a lot more than usual. Right now though, I plan to read light novels until the end of the year. Things that are unserious. In fact right now as we speak I am reading a 2018 novel called French Exit. I will tell you all about it when I have finished. I’m ⅕ through.
I used to like to write! When I was about 8 I had to attend some creative writing class. You’ve probably heard the story 26 or more times if we know each other in real life. It was from 10am to 12pm. I believe one term was Tuesdays and another term was on Wednesdays. School started at 1pm for me and even as a wee kid I liked to eat a lot and savour every eating moment so the comments I received about my writing were always about ‘strong starts and abrupt stops’. Of course la abrupt stops I wanted to go for lunch! I try to correct that now but old habits die hard.. or rather I’ve never learnt to correct that. There’s no incentive I think. There’s always something else pressing that needs my attention. My wine doesn’t drink by itself.. hehe
I think all kids should go for writing classes. We have ChatGPT (which, if I have to say so, is a better friend than my friends haha!) that can help us write but individually we have our quirks and flavour so learning to express ourselves with our writing or speech is beneficial. Beneficial for whom I don’t know. I’ll tell you once I figured that out.
I like French Exit so far. It has this line (I don’t know if it’s the writing or the wine.. I am pretty buzzed right now) but I just guffawed like a teenage girl.
“She was a demon. And if such a place as hell exists then that’s where she collects her mail”
Haha!
What is your favourite piece of writing?
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