Down with Schedules!

Yup, I'm getting rid of the schedule because I can't stick to it.  I don't always have time to blog, so if I ge rid of the schedule, I won't feel bad when I don't post.  Also, it gets rids of the pressure, and I need less stress and pressure in my life.  So, from now on I will post whenever I feel like it, and my posts will be about what ever I feel like writing about.  It will still be all literary based, but there will be less structure.

-Dru

Sunday Literary News: A website and my writing

Hello everybody!

So, I just discovered this wonderful website called Good Reads.  You get to record what you have read, and suggest books to other.  You also can get recommended books, which is awesome!  Best of all, I hear that they have frequent giveaways.  Who doesn't love free books?  So, here is a link:

http://www.goodreads.com/

Next, InkeNoWriSum offically started today.  I stayed up until midnight so I could get started right away.  I already have nearly 3,000 words and I'm still writing.  My goal is to finish my novel by the end of the summer.  I'm so excited!

Poetry Tuesday: A Poem by Robert Frost

Here is a classic:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

About Sunday....

Two posts in one day, oh yeah!

Anyway, I've decided to revert Sunday back to literary news, as you can see by my previous post, and just drop book reviews all together.  Don't get me wrong, I will still do them periodically, but I just can't do them every week.

Sunday Literary News: InkieNoWriSum

I'm am posting my first ever Sunday Literary News which will contain interesting news about the literary world.  Today I have but one story, but it will be good.

I don't know how many of you know about Inkpop, but it is a writing website, geared towards Young Adult works, that I am part of.  It is a wonderful community where people can safely post their works for the world to see and talk to other like-minded writers.  So, some lovely Inkies, as we are called, decided to put together a summer event called InkieNoWriSum.  It is pretty much the same thing as NaNoWriMo, except it takes place during the summer.  I know I have lost a couple of you by now, so I shall explain.

NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month.  It is an event that takes place in November where writers worldwide attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in one month.  I will talk about this more come November, where I will try the challenge for a second time, and hopefully win.  I suffered a miserable defeat last year and I need to redeem myself.  Anyway, for more info, go here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

InkieNoWriSum stands for Inkie Novel Writing Summer.  It is pretty much the same thing, except you have the entire summer to reach a writing goal of your choice.  My goal this summer is to finish my novel.  I have a writing buddy I'm working with so we can complete our goal together, which may help succeed.  And right now, my fellow readers, I have decided that if I accomplish my goal, it will make up for my NaNoWriMo failure!  Woohoo!

Okay, so how many of you are up for the challenge?  Let me know by posting the comments.  I will be rooting for you!

Oh, and here is a link to Inkpop:

http://www.inkpop.com/

-Dru

Wednesday Writing Tip: Write on Paper

Constantly caught in the never-ending "write a line and then hit backspace" cycle?  Try putting the computer down and write on paper.  It takes a lot more work to rid yourself of a line written on paper, especially when you do so with pen.  And if you are enviornmentally conscious, like me, throwing away that paper you mess-up on is out of the question.  Thus, you stick with what you have, which is all you have to do with a first draft.  The first draft is all about finishing something; you can perfect things later when you type it up on the computer.

Poetry Tuesday: A Poem by Auden

I have my english exam today and my big essau question required me to decipher a poem by Auden and compare it to one of the books I read this year in class.  I think I did pretty well...or I might've been overly reptitive.  Either way, I thought the poem was really cool and I am going to share it with you.  Feel free to decipher it for yourself!

Musée des Beaux Arts

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.