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It's THE NEFERTITI CURSE from Kris Faryn, over at Book View Cafe and other online venues.
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Sasha closed the Telegram channel and archived it. He was now confident everything was going to work according to the plan. His contact was now convinced that GRU agents were supporting his plan for the Crocus attack, expecting the men-in-blue that were in the theatre to get them out of the hot spot and exfiltrate them safely through Ukraine. FSB in all its glory. The actual scenario for the men-in-blue was slightly different.
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This is an experiment that I personally want to try for this year. Writing a fiction. It’s like threading uncharted waters for me. Honestly, I don’t have any background of fiction writing. All my life, I’ve only been a consumer, a well-spending consumer really. It’s kind of embarrassing how many books I have in my shelf that I haven’t touched yet.
So far, I enjoy the small progress. Writing tiny notes on how the story would go, what kind of characters I want to have. All sorts of nice stuff. In the middle of writing the second part, I realized the similarities between the story I write and the anime, A Sign Of Affection. Well, I wish mine is that good and impactful.
Granted, it’s never wise to compare your own work to the great work of others, especially for a first timer like me. I can see A Sign Of Affection as a great inspiration for me, though. After all, my story and the anime share a similar setting, and genre.
However, it leads to another block that I just now noticed. When I read, I feel emotions, albeit they’re kind of second hand emotions. You know, when a character feels this way, it’s not me who’s feeling the frustration, the sadness, or the joy, it’s them. I find myself to empathize with them, yet it’s never my genuine reaction to the situations they’re in.
I guess it’s okay when I’m reading. But, when I’m actually writing, I find myself spending so much time figuring out what the character I write would feel. I have a pretty good idea about what they’re supposed to be as a person. But, it turns out, conveying how they perceive things, how they express what they think, and stuff like that isn’t as easy as I imagined.
On top of that, if I decide to narrate from another character’s perspective, then I need to adapt to them on a personal level. Wow! I guess this is where acting class can really come in handy. The more I write, the more I understand how complex fictional works can be.
Anyway, if you would like to read what I wrote, this is the link to my Wattpad. It’s still at the beginning of the story. But, feel free to say what you think about it, though. I plan to write about ten to twenty chapters, with around a thousand words in each chapter. I think it’s a decent starting point. Cheers!
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Hey, I guess it’s a new year revolution for me, writing a fictional story. To me, writing was mostly an academic chore to do. Only when I got my first job as a content writer (which I no longer have. RIP) I got to discover the joy of writing for the fun of it (and getting paid).
When I first started this blog. You’d notice how awkward and painfully stiff my writing is. You know what. I’m never deleting those posts. I think it’s great for my future self to have a look at where I started.
I am aware that some of the bloggers that I follow on WordPress are full on seasoned writers. When I first discovered that, oh my. How astonished I was. Some of you even started writing since, I don’t know, 2008? I was still in elementary school, failing math.
Suffice to say, some of you guys are also my inspiration why I decided to commit to one more hobby. Yes, I am a dragon in the cave of hobbies. Hoarding all the activities that I can get my hands on and my wallet can afford. My precious! Wait… wrong character.
I am turning into this guy…Overtake! and Steam are mostly responsible for my recent absence, though. Oh, I am currently addicted to Motorsport Manager. I just couldn’t help it, since the 85% off deal sounds almost too good to be true. Turns out, Mr. Komaki is right guys, making money as a small team is hard. My motors aren’t motoring, and I, as a manager, am not managing. PAIN! But, I love this game.
Aside from that, the main reason why I started writing fiction from now on is I recently caught up to an old friend. Have you ever had someone whose life is basically the phrase, “Yup, girl… You’re a shoujo manga protagonist.”? Well, this is how I feel about this friend of mine.
Even as I am writing this post and recalling her stories, I want to do backflips out of sheer disbelief and shock. And guess what, when I said I’d like to turn her romantic pain and suffering into a hobby, she said I should go for it. Yay! Of course, I put some twists and anonymity into the characters and the story. I think it’s just the right thing to do.
Interestingly, I don’t know how, but her stories came down to my mind in A Sign Of Affection‘s art style. I guess, it’s because of the similar university settings? I haven’t even read the manga.
So, anyway. You can read the first part of my fiction. It might suck. Well, it should be, it’s my first time actually committing into writing a story after all. This is the link for my story on Wattpad.
I think I can update the story every week or two. I have more ideas for the story and I just need to get to writing it down. After I get some better lap times on this darn Motorsport Manager. I’ll update the progress on this blog as well. Cheers!
https://seinenrider.com/2024/01/03/so-i-try-writing-a-short-novel/
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Throwback Thursday to 2014: 'joseph conrad is fully awesome' posted links about short novels, aka things you could read in one sitting. Come for the books, stay for the additional recommendations in the comments!
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I loved 'The Sentence' by Louise Erdrich. As well as being a fantastic novel itself, it's also a book lover's dream. The main character, Tookie, works in a bookstore and the novel is sprinkled with enticing titles and recommendations.
The end of the novel features an appendix - “Totally Biased List of Tookie’s Favorite Books” - which I created as a list on #Bookwyrm. Excited to add to my growing #ShortNovels TBR pile.
https://bookwyrm.social/list/1699/s/totally-biased-list-of-tookies-favorite-books
Tookie is a character who works in a bookstore in Louise Erdrich's novel, 'The Sentence'. Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters. —Tookie Ghost-Managing Book List - The Uninvited Guests, by Sadie Jones - Ceremonies of the Damned, by Adrian C. Louis - Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice - Father of Lies, by Brian Evenson - The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead - Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto - The Hatak Witches, by Devon A. Mihesuah - Beloved, by Toni Morrison - The Through, by A. Rafael Johnson - Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders - Savage Conversations, by LeAnne Howe - The Regeneration Trilogy, by Pat Barker - Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth - Songs for Discharming, by Denise Sweet - Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, by Gerald Vizenor Short Perfect Novels - Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel - Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson - Sula, by Toni Morrison - The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad - The All of It, by Jeannette Haine - Winter in the Blood, by James Welch - Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle - The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald - First Love, by Ivan Turgenev - Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys - Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf - Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee - Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai Sailboat Table (table by Quint Hankle) - The Voyage of the Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett - Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector - Boy Kings of Texas, by Domingo Martinez - The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline - A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James - There There, by Tommy Orange - Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine - Underland, by Robert Macfarlane - The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio - Deacon King Kong, by James McBride - The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett - Will and Testament, by Vigdis Hjorth - Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada - The Door, by Magda Svabo - The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth - Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff - The Overstory, by Richard Power - Night Train, by Lise Erdrich - Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado - The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, edited by John Freeman - Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore - Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones - The Office of Historical Corrections, by Danielle Evans - Tenth of December, by George Saunders - Murder on the Red River, by Marcie R. Rendon - Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam - Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong - The Unwomanly Face of War, by Svetlana Alexievich - Standard Deviation, by Katherine Heiny - All My Puny Sorrows, by Miriam Toews - The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen - Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan - NW, by Zadie Smith - Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande - Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Firekeeper’s Daughter, by Angeline Boulley - Erasure, by Percival Everett - Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Kawai Strong Washburn - Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami Books for Banned Love - Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh - The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje - Euphoria, by Lily King - The Red and the Black, by Stendahl - Luster, by Raven Leilani - Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday - All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy - Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides - The Vixen, by Francine Prose - Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison - The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason Indigenous Lives - Holding Our World Together, by Brenda J. Child - American Indian Stories, by Zitkala-Sa - A History of My Brief Body, by Billy-Ray Belcourt - The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert - Apple: Skin to the Core, by Eric Gansworth - Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot - The Blue Sky, by Galsan Tschinag - Crazy Brave, by Joy Harjo - Standoff, by Jacqueline Keeler - Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer - You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, by Sherman Alexie - Spirit Car, by Diane Wilson - Two Old Women, by Velma Wallis - Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School, by Adam Fortunate Eagle - Split Tooth, by Tanya Tagaq - Walking the Rez Road, by Jim Northrup - Mamaskatch, by Darrel J. McLeod Indigenous Poetry - Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, by Joy Harjo - Ghost River (Wakpá Wanági), by Trevino L. Brings Plenty - The Book of Medicines, by Linda Hogan - The Smoke That Settled, by Jay Thomas Bad Heart Bull - The Crooked Beak of Love, by Duane Niatum - Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier - Little Big Bully, by Heid E. Erdrich - A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation, by Eric Gansworth - NDN Coping Mechanisms, by Billy-Ray Belcourt - The Invisible Musician, by Ray A. Young Bear - When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by Joy Harjo - New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich - The Failure of Certain Charms, by Gordon Henry Jr. Indigenous History and Nonfiction - Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong, by Paul Chaat Smith - Decolonizing Methodologies, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith - Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian - War of 1862, edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Alan R.Woodworth - Being Dakota, by Amos E. Oneroad and Alanson B. Skinner - Boarding School Blues, edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller,and Lorene Sisquoc - Masters of Empire, by Michael A. McDonnell - Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior - Boarding School Seasons, by Brenda J. Child - They Called It Prairie Light, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima - To Be a Water Protector, by Winona LaDuke - Minneapolis: An Urban Biography, by Tom Weber Sublime Books - The Known World, by Edward P. Jones - The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro - A Thousand Trails Home, by Seth Kantner - House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday - Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück - The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy, by Robert Bly - The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman - Unfortunately, It Was Paradise, by Mahmoud Darwish - Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges, trans. Andrew Hurley - The Xenogenesis Trilogy, by Octavia E. Butler - Map: Collected and Last Poems, by Wisława Szymborska - In the Lateness of the World, by Carolyn Forché - Angels, by Denis Johnson - Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz - Hope Against Hope, by Nadezhda Mandelstam - Exhalation, by Ted Chaing - Strange Empire, by Joseph Kinsey Howard Tookie’s Pandemic Reading - Deep Survival, by Laurence Gonzales - The Lost City of the Monkey God, by Douglas Preston - The House of Broken Angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea - The Heartsong of Charging Elk, by James Welch - Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey - Let’s Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell - The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, by Patrick O’Brian - The Ibis Trilogy, by Amitav Ghosh - The Golden Wolf Saga, by Linnea Hartsuyker - Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Coyote Warrior, by Paul VanDevelder Incarceration - Felon, by Reginald Dwayne Betts - Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa - Waiting for an Echo, by Christine Montross, M.D. - The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner - The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander - This Is Where, by Louise K. Waakaa’igan - I Will Never See the World Again, by Ahmet Altan - Sorrow Mountain, by Ani Pachen and Adelaide Donnelley - American Prison, by Shane Bauer - Solitary, by Albert Woodfox - Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis - 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, by Ai Weiwei If you are interested in the books on these lists, please seek them out at your local independent bookstore. 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Why am I tooting about #ShortNovels, you may ask?
Because I'm falling short of my reading goal for this year, and while part of me thinks it's arbitrary and silly to care, another part of me would like to read a few more books before the year is out.
So... seeking recommendations for a good #Novella or #ShortNovel that isn't already listed. Please and thank you @bookstodon 🙏
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