Platitudinous platypus
Jan. 3rd, 2006 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonFirst platitude of 2006:
"On your death bed, you're not going to say, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'"
—Platitude Woman
Quote of the day:
"It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
—Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Which also strikes me as rather platitudinous. But it's so Kingsolverian.
Writing talk of the day:
I posted another Dos Lunas story to the workshop yesterday. This one features a much younger JK Montmorency, and naughty bits. But I didn't want to label it "Adults Only" under the new labeling choices, because it's hardly erotica. Sex, sure. But sex is not the main purpose, I don't think, not the theme. I generally like the new labeling options, but I didn't want to stick that one on my story. So I contented myself with a adult content warning in the author's notes.
Goofy thought of the day:
Platitudinous platypus. Coming to a screen near you.
"On your death bed, you're not going to say, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'"
—Platitude Woman
Quote of the day:
"It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."
—Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Which also strikes me as rather platitudinous. But it's so Kingsolverian.
Writing talk of the day:
I posted another Dos Lunas story to the workshop yesterday. This one features a much younger JK Montmorency, and naughty bits. But I didn't want to label it "Adults Only" under the new labeling choices, because it's hardly erotica. Sex, sure. But sex is not the main purpose, I don't think, not the theme. I generally like the new labeling options, but I didn't want to stick that one on my story. So I contented myself with a adult content warning in the author's notes.
Goofy thought of the day:
Platitudinous platypus. Coming to a screen near you.
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Date: 2006-01-03 05:14 pm (UTC)And I love Kingsolver. Is Animal Dreams any good? I loved Poisonwood Bible.
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Date: 2006-01-03 07:21 pm (UTC)Same place, younger JK.
That new format for posting on OWW makes me want to post. Fun clicky buttons!
They are fun, aren't they? :-)
Is Animal Dreams any good?
I didn't care for it much; liked it so little I haven't read anything else by her. I thought she chickened out on some key character moments--didn't really write some tough emotional scenes she should have written, but glossed over them, and avoided going to the heart of the novel. Kind of ruined the book for me. I wasn't fond of the heroine, either. It's full of quotable material, though.