- Your favorite genre/s: For fiction: Mid-century realism (and mid-century stuff in general, actually), and cynical recent stuff with a magical realism streak (like Vonnegut and Tom Robbins) For Poetry: Modernism, British Romanticism - Your favorite author/s: Richard Yates, Haruki Murakami, Alexander Pushkin, and Yasunari Kawabata (so tough to choose just one, haha). - Your favorite book/s: "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse - Your favorite character/s: Psmith from various Wodehouse novels, the narrator from Eugene Onegin - Least favorite book/s: Perks of Being a Wallflow by Stephen Chisdfjifsky, mainly because it is so overrated. - Least favorite characters: Holden Caulfield - Recommended reading: Any story by Saki, Christina Rosetti's poetry, "Naomi" by Junichiro Tanizaki
Writing
- What do you write: Moooostly poetry. I want to learn to write better fiction, too, but for some reason that doesn't stick with me. - Your favorite genre/s to write: Lately I've been trying to work on forms. Adapting sonnets to actually be appropriate in English (3-4-3 is a lie, 5-7-5 is an attrocity), and trying to write sonnets to exercise my brain a bit. - Do you write fanfiction? Sometimes I write Pokemon stuff for fun. - Do you write original fiction? Sometimes, but not so good at it. - Current project: This whole 3-poems-a-week thing I am working on right now. - An area you'd like to improve in: Plotting out stories. Exposition and everything is fine, and my characters are believable enough but I never know... what is going to happen. - An accomplishment you're proud of: Once I got paid $10 to write a script for a student film. That's... you know, real professional and all.
Other
- Hobbies: Bike-riding, drawing, napping, and watching documentaries on the boobtube. - What's in your journal? Nothing yet! I just made it a couple of days ago, but I am probably going to post 75% irl bullshit and 25% writing. - Why did you move to DW? It seemed friendlier than livejournal, where I was, which is pretty cliquey sometimes, and full of dumbosaurus rexes. - Favorite energy drink? Bull urine. - Anything else? LESSSSS US BE FRIENDS.
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:22 pm (UTC)- Name: Greg
- Age: 17
- Location: Rochester, NY
Reading
- Your favorite genre/s: For fiction: Mid-century realism (and mid-century stuff in general, actually), and cynical recent stuff with a magical realism streak (like Vonnegut and Tom Robbins) For Poetry: Modernism, British Romanticism
- Your favorite author/s: Richard Yates, Haruki Murakami, Alexander Pushkin, and Yasunari Kawabata (so tough to choose just one, haha).
- Your favorite book/s: "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse
- Your favorite character/s: Psmith from various Wodehouse novels, the narrator from Eugene Onegin
- Least favorite book/s: Perks of Being a Wallflow by Stephen Chisdfjifsky, mainly because it is so overrated.
- Least favorite characters: Holden Caulfield
- Recommended reading: Any story by Saki, Christina Rosetti's poetry, "Naomi" by Junichiro Tanizaki
Writing
- What do you write: Moooostly poetry. I want to learn to write better fiction, too, but for some reason that doesn't stick with me.
- Your favorite genre/s to write: Lately I've been trying to work on forms. Adapting sonnets to actually be appropriate in English (3-4-3 is a lie, 5-7-5 is an attrocity), and trying to write sonnets to exercise my brain a bit.
- Do you write fanfiction? Sometimes I write Pokemon stuff for fun.
- Do you write original fiction? Sometimes, but not so good at it.
- Current project: This whole 3-poems-a-week thing I am working on right now.
- An area you'd like to improve in: Plotting out stories. Exposition and everything is fine, and my characters are believable enough but I never know... what is going to happen.
- An accomplishment you're proud of: Once I got paid $10 to write a script for a student film. That's... you know, real professional and all.
Other
- Hobbies: Bike-riding, drawing, napping, and watching documentaries on the boobtube.
- What's in your journal? Nothing yet! I just made it a couple of days ago, but I am probably going to post 75% irl bullshit and 25% writing.
- Why did you move to DW? It seemed friendlier than livejournal, where I was, which is pretty cliquey sometimes, and full of dumbosaurus rexes.
- Favorite energy drink? Bull urine.
- Anything else? LESSSSS US BE FRIENDS.