Glenn Mori, crafting with words, notes and thoughts
Fiction, jazz, and other stuff!
First assignment from a beginners class for creative writing; describe a place using the 5 senses.
Sigh. I knew it was going to be a basics class, but I wanted review of some basics. “Write about a place that you love. Describe it using the 5 senses, or as many as possible.” Then it’ll be read, and critiqued in class next week. This falls under the topic of “settings”.
I don’t read a lot of books when they first come out, I don’t see a lot of movies in theaters or even when they first arrive in DVD format. It could be that I don’t like being part of a crowd, or that I like things to stand a little test of time before I spend the money and time required, but more likely it’s just that I’m lazy and slow.
Haven’t seen the movie version yet, but I read a reference to the book in an issue of the New Yorker a few months ago and realized that I should read the book. I requested a copy from the library but it took so long to arrive that I forgot my request until the book arrived last week.
Continue reading “Review/reaction: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
Recently we bought a new DVD player and with it came a month of free DVD rentals. The first movie that we chose is “Brokeback Mountain”. I’m sure that everyone knows what separates this movie from all other mainstream successful movies; gay cowboys.
Continue reading “Reactions to watching “Brokeback Mountain””
I’ve registered for a continuing ed night school course in creative writing.
The class doesn’t start until the end of September but I’m looking forward to it. I expect it to be fairly basic, but basic is what I need to learn. I haven’t done creative writing that was reviewed since, oh, 9th grade or so. Any writing for assignments since then has been either critical/analytical or research oriented during the rest of high school, college, university, grad school. Creativity is only in the choice of topic and choice of words.
I admit to not being much of a movie watcher in the past few years, and though I’ve been involved on a board level with a small theater festival for a while it’s been years and years since I’ve seen classic theater.
I’ve read some very nice stuff from Alice Gray lately. No, that’s not quite right; it’s not stuff that came into existence lately, rather I only discovered her recently and have been reading some of her writing.
If you’re on Twitter you know how this works. The “#” indicates a theme that people quote if they want to participate in the discussion.
Just finished reading an old Dan Brown novel, Digital Fortress: A Thriller
I like to not delete the default Hello world post, just to be silly.
So this is my official hello world. Gradually I’ll transfer all the private postings that I’ve been maintaining elsewhere now that I have a semi-permanent home for them.