my faith is stronger than your agony

[muladhara]

I ordered a bunch of beads on the internet yesterday. They may arrive tomorrow! (The one lot probably will, it shipped today, and they aim for next day delivery. Also the company is only in Nottingham, so they're not a million miles away. The other one may or may not (Schrödinger's beads!) but I don't know because the postage was less (actually more reasonable), and they didn't email me to let me know if the order had been despatched or not - I think you need to be a member of the site for that to happen).

Anyway, long story short, lots of pony beads. And stars. Because why not?

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I haven't done any writing since I discovered I deviated from the original idea. Also I really need to work on character shit for everyone who isn't a main/important character, but I have been distracted by shiny things. And my tax return form came this morning, so I'd like to get that sorted as soon as possible*. I'm trying not to feel too bad about it, though, because that's horrible and I have enough guilt in my life without giving myself more. It's just a story, and it doesn't matter if I don't meet my deadline, because it's not like people are paying me money to write it so some others can read it**.

*I honestly can't believe people leave it till the last possible minute to file taxes. I'd lose the form if that were me! And I like doing taxes, which I am aware makes me the weirdest person in the world.

**Though I would like to finish a story for once. The last one I finished was over a decade ago when I had neither gaming nor the internet to distract me and writing was pretty much all I did when I wasn't reading (or at college). That story was rubbishy (and reads weirdly because I'd just read Dracula), though, but it worked out my need for a vampire story, so.

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Oh no.

I am reading a book at the moment called A Tale For The Time Being (by Ruth Ozeki) and looking at the Goodreads page for it. Someone tagged it as literary fiction and I'm all [INTERNAL SCREAMING].

(Though, to be fair, I did wonder, given the subject matter if that was what it was supposed to be anyway).

I'll be honest, I'd never even heard that phrase till a couple of months ago, and I didn't think I even knew what it meant. Although it turns out I do - books that are full of pretentious twaddle that think they're more worthy than other books (and are usually the ones that get nominated for the big awards - this one was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize). I mean, if you like that kind of book, that's OK by me. But honestly it's not for me.

The book's OK (for now), but it's taking me a long time to get through it (though that would be helped if the one narrator wasn't so damn boring, and it didn't keep flipping between first and third person. Two narrators is FINE, but not switching POV like that. It's disconcerting).

Comments

[booksyarntea]

Are you a jewelry maker? :D

[radiuju]

Are you going to craft something with those beads? Curious of what you'd come up with!

[muladhara]

Sort of? I like making jewellery, but I don't do it a lot. I do have some for sale in my etsy but I don't have a lot of confidence to sell more [/shameless plug] I'm going to work on changing that, though :)

(I say I crochet for a living, which is true, but I switch between that, knitting, and jewellery).

Also I just really like shiny stuff and colours, so present me with beads and I have a hard time not being all grabby hands about them ;)

[muladhara]

I am, although I don't know what yet (apart from the star beads - they're going to be on bracelets). I will try to upload the results to my flickr and link when I've done them :)

[antisoppist]

- books that are full of pretentious twaddle that think they're more worthy than other books
Heee! I have just got back from the London Book Fair where I have come to the conclusion that *not* wanting to translate literary fiction might actually be my unique selling point.

[feline_scribe]

Oh, gawd. "Literary fiction"... uggghhh... As soon as something is identified as / classified as literary fiction, I refuse to read it. Don't get me wrong, there are folks who, apparently, genuinely enjoy literary fiction. And good for them! Different tastes and all that.

BUT... I am sickened by people insisting literary fiction is better than genre fiction. (In my mind, it isn't. I love genre fiction.) I find it crappy people insist any sort category of writing is better than another. And yeah, I mean... for my opinion of literary fiction, pretentious twaddle is pretty good summation! :-P

(And this is all coming from a former college English major! LOL)

Hope you have fun crafting!

[booksyarntea]

I understand completely. Making jewelry is so fun and I love working with my hands (and btw, you have some adorable stuff in your shop!). I was contemplating putting my stuff at at Etsy as well, but I heard from a friend that they take a commission fee or something for every listing you have. Is that true?

[lassarina]

I once read a fantasy novel that I later found was billed as "literary fiction fantasy" and I'm like oh that's why it made me want to vomit >.>;

[muladhara]

Isn't it just? (and thanks ^^;; )

Yeah, they do, although I don't know if it gets charged to the buyer. Because I made my first sale recently, and I got exactly what I asked for it in item cost and postage so I don't know where the commission fee was/where it went. I was expecting to get slightly less than I had put on the site, obviously, but didn't. They also charge for listings, but you probably knew about that already?

[muladhara]

To, from, or both? ;)

Jeez, it's a trial reading that stuff; I can't imagine what translating it might be like.

[muladhara]

Same here, but I picked this up while looking on the new book stand for books for my mum. I initially thought she might like to read it, then decided against it, and tried it myself. But yeah, mostly I stay far, far away from that sort of stuff because it's boring and, as I said, pretentious.

OH GODS YES. Whenever anyone insists this is better than this because oh it's more intelligent or whatever. Nope.

OH I AM DOING, THANK YOU :)

[muladhara]

OH GOD. That's horrible! Why would anyone do that.

[booksyarntea]

Now that you mentioned it, I believe a friend did say they charged to list your stuff, too. That's kind of a bummer, imo. :\

[muladhara]

It is. It's not a huge amount, but all those not-huge amounts soon add up, especially if you have a large shop, like they encourage you to do (gee, I wonder why!)