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Tuomari Nurmio
The entertainment of the evening: the concert celebrating Tuomari Nurmio's 30 years of career in suomi-rock (the Finnish variety of rock music). It took me decades to become a fan of Nurmio, but it finally happened a few years back. The first song that I fell in love with was Onnen kerjäläinen and there are other songs as good as that one. I'm ( Read more... ) -
Search engines are useless
Yesterday, I didn't read anything but my own latest story which I was revising. Not exactly a satisfying way of wasting one's time. I tried to find something to read in the Internet, but nothing stroke my fansy. I'm sure there are good reads in there, somewhere, but I seem unable to find them ( Read more... ) -
Foucault, Michel. The Archeology of Knowledge
Yesterday I didn't read fiction.
Instead, I concentrated on Michel Foucault's The Archeology of Knowledge. Even though I'm reading it in Finnish it's a tough cookie. After a week of reading, I'm just 50 pages in. Of course, I have seldom more than 30 minutes for reading during week days and last weekend I had in mind things other than studies. ( Read more... ) -
Disappointments
What should the reader do if she finds a story a disappointment ( Read more... ) -
Pettymyksiä
Mitä pitäisi lukijan tehdä, kun pettyy lukemaansa juttuun?
Kun petyn kirjaan, se jää lukematta. Kirjastosta lainattua kirjaa en epäröi jättää silleen, mutta entä kun olen ostanut kirjan? Harmittaa vähän vietävästi turha rahanmeno. Harmittaa niin paljon, että tekisi mieli palauttaa kirja kauppaan. Ikävä, ettei niin voi tehdä.
Luen myös juttuja netissä ( Read more... ) -
Months of trouble
My last post was just before I opened my shop. I'm still in business, but the months have been a struggle. The first three months were quite like I imagined them to be, but from July 2009 everything went downhill ( Read more... ) -
Still alive
I'm still alive, and my business is coming together better than I hoped for ( Read more... ) -
Business
It's been awhile since I updated my LJ, but I had a good reason why I had to keep away. I've been occupied with
something that has taken nearly all my energy and almost all my time, too. Also my writing projects have been put on the back burner for the time being.
Yesterday, I started a business of my own. The process of making this decision has ( Read more... ) -
About fanfiction
My first language is not English, and therefore, I never thought that I could write a book in English. For me, fanfiction changed that. When I applied to English Department of University of Helsinki I did not quite trust my language skills, and so I started to write fanfiction. I found the system of betas to be very useful as I tried to improve my ( Read more... ) -
Nitwit of all the nitwits
It's been a week since I finished my first novel. I haven't even looked at the printed copy of it yet. I know that it would be a bad idea, and, actually, I haven't felt any desire to work on it. I haven't forgotten the manuscript, though.
Click here to find out why...