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Sep. 17th, 2007 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meitantei_cjI didn't know Robert Jordan died. I've never read his books... I was always scared away by people calling him long-winded. It's like, I've read Lord of the Rings once, I liked it, but writing was different then and you could get away with writing a million words on a given subject. I can't read things like that. It's why certain reading assignments in high school were absolutely miserable for me. (Freaking Dostoyevsky or however you spell it.) I do not like it when authors take two pages to describe a room. It's unlikely I'll read LotR again just for that reason.
Still, it's sad. Second author I know of to die without completing a novel they were working on.
Here's funny for you: At some point when I was in high school, Mom told me she almost got me into commercials as a kid. I started thinking about it and sometime later told her I wanted to look into acting classes. She said "I'll help you look into it" and didn't. She does that. But I was at least 14 and no older than 16 at that point. I couldn't do it myself. I didn't know what to look for.
Yesterday we got onto the subject of what I should do with myself (I mentioned the career meme that's going around; the results I posted in my journal aren't the first ones I got. The first ones were nearly all hands-on things like painter, carpenter, that kind of work, and I don't know HOW they got that), and she said, "You know what I thought of for you, since you're such a loner? You should look into acting classes. Something to break you out of your shell."
... Um. Anyway. She's right, but it kind of aggravates me that, had she paid attention before, I might not be so withdrawn. Things might be vastly different.
Not in a good mood today. I'm going to walk the bridge later... it's cool out and it should keep me from overheating.
Still, it's sad. Second author I know of to die without completing a novel they were working on.
Here's funny for you: At some point when I was in high school, Mom told me she almost got me into commercials as a kid. I started thinking about it and sometime later told her I wanted to look into acting classes. She said "I'll help you look into it" and didn't. She does that. But I was at least 14 and no older than 16 at that point. I couldn't do it myself. I didn't know what to look for.
Yesterday we got onto the subject of what I should do with myself (I mentioned the career meme that's going around; the results I posted in my journal aren't the first ones I got. The first ones were nearly all hands-on things like painter, carpenter, that kind of work, and I don't know HOW they got that), and she said, "You know what I thought of for you, since you're such a loner? You should look into acting classes. Something to break you out of your shell."
... Um. Anyway. She's right, but it kind of aggravates me that, had she paid attention before, I might not be so withdrawn. Things might be vastly different.
Not in a good mood today. I'm going to walk the bridge later... it's cool out and it should keep me from overheating.
