Monday: My Wish List

[cierratweek]

This is what I want

Comments

[m_benitez]

Hope things get better for your mom soon.

By the way, ideas do have a way of coming out from the least likely places. Before you know it, you'll have a hard time batting off the plot bunnies.

[cierratweek]

I know me too.

God I hope you're right! Those plot bunnies better get running to me.

[m_benitez]

Sometimes they come up in class. At least that's how it works for me. That's why I keep a notebook on me at all times.

[cierratweek]

Yeah I do too. Mostly class has been giving me ideas but still, I'd rather have easier plots, ya know? My plots never interlock well.

[m_benitez]

Yikes. Once I had to attempt a change in genre to let my plots stop jumping on my head.

[cierratweek]

Ahahaaha I just never have my plots ending the way I want. I hate it.

[m_benitez]

Sometimes, especially if the characters are in charge, it's more fun to see where the plot goes. Lord knows it's happened too often with my bunch.

[cierratweek]

Me too. That's how I usually do it, but I hate not having a beginning middle and end, ya know?

[m_benitez]

I get what you mean. Sometimes it feels like having a mini Literature or English teacher in one's head, nagging on and on about plot structure.

[cierratweek]

Constantly! I hate it! I'm a big structure and grammar maximum most of the time, so having something that isn't structural kills me.

[m_benitez]

I live with a sister who is a school teacher/has taken up literary criticism. I get to have my work dissected for its lack of structure every week.

[cierratweek]

Eh, I'm sorry. Though its easy editing, I'd think. Still, slightly annoying. And yanno, some works are best without structure.

[m_benitez]

Well it's annoying since we have very different tastes in books. She's into Latin American lit, I'm into a variety of genres ranging from historicals to sci fi. So we don't live by the same tropes.

[cierratweek]

Ah yeah, that'll do it. I like Latin American lit though. But yeah I can like anything.

Except the book Kindred, which counts as African American lit, I think. I still really dislike that book.

[m_benitez]

Of Latin American lit, my favorites have got to be by Allende and Neruda. But not much else.

I'm not too familiar with African American lit but I don't dislike anything from there. The only book I think I truly disliked (apart from Twilight and the Inheritance Saga) is "Return of the Native" by Hardy.

[cierratweek]

Oh how did I forget about Twilight? We just brought it up. Hate that too. I the to say it, but there's a lot of AA lit that I find myself disliking. But then again, The Help is one of my fav books, so there's that.

I really hated Kindred. Don't read it.