writing wank « J.K.Richard

Self-inflicted pain

I have downloaded 50 movie scripts to read and analyze over the next few days. The beatings will continue until the writing improves.

Where’s that coffee?

Your ear for the passive voice and love of the purple passage will be the death of you.

Furthermore, the sudden use of consonance is weird. What the hell have I been reading lately?

Left Brain (LB): What are you doing there?

Right Brain (RB): I’m searching the interwebs. A bit of research.

LB: I see that. That’s not information on Solomon or 19th century medicine.

RB: You’re very clever it’s not. It’s Haitian Kreyol.

LB: Uh huh. What does that have to do with the novel you’re currently researching?

RB: Nothing? You see [...]

I have been reading and researching in my typical research fashion: manic— get it, devour it, next.

I have come to several conclusions about the Western genre from what reading I’ve done thus far:

WOMEN fall into about four categories:

1) 14-16 yr old girls who discover there womanhood throughout the novel — because of a handsome cowboy [...]