Pascale is reading The Outsiders for her English class. I remember watching the movie when it first came out and liking it. Mostly I think because I liked looking at the guys. Who didn’t. I picked up the book yesterday and then ended up reading the whole thing. It was good to read a different style of writing and S.E. Hinton’s was a nice change. It felt like I was participating in a conversation rather than taken to another world where I could escape doing the laundry. I liked that she wrote stories she felt were important to her too which is a good way to look at one’s own writing. I look at my own writing and think, what crap! then put it away and write some more crap. Maybe rather than push them aside I should work on crafting it into something readable seeing that it’s so important to me too. Writing is so much harder than photography. It’s so much cheaper too. Did I tell you I wanted to upgrade my camera? And that I wanted more lenses? It will be the new story of my life.
Friday, October 12th
writing and photography—
October 12th, 2007 at 11:07 am
it is much cheaper, but I think both are hard.
I saw the camera (D1) it’s like buying a small used car. But I bet it rocks!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I think blog writing is very important to help get some of the “junk” out and find kernels of wonderful prose. But I totally agree with you, photography is easier and more money.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Wow! So what camera do you want now?!
I have some writing thoughts but I think I’ll write you off line.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
i agree athena. i love immediate gratification things. like vacuuming or ironing….or eating….
October 13th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Oh, and i was going to say about The Outsiders that I read that in 7th too. Pascale is in 7th, right? I loved that book because it was like nothing I’d ever read. And I liked the movie too, of course. ;-)