kintsugi
the warmth of summer in the songs you write
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Heya! This is a parallel thread to What Did You Write Today? except it features the other part of what we do with writing—reading!
It’s kind of exactly what it says on the tin, but what did you read today? No limits on content except that it has to be readable (music, movies, etc are cool but don’t count); you can talk about fanfic on this site, fanfic on other sites, published fiction, textbooks, the back of a box of cereal... anything with written words that you yourself have processed with your brain! Reading is a huge part of honing your skill as a writer, and even if you aren’t tackling a book a day, it’s great to keep something on hand.
Please do tag if the thing you’re posting has graphic content/gore, and mark all plot spoilers in spoiler tags. Also, no flaming//please be respectful of your fellow authors.
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Today (yesterday technically) I read Prey by Michael Crichton, which is a scifi/thriller about a cloud of nanobots that has, like all fictional robots, decided to murder the shit out of everyone (I do mean this somewhat literally; they’re part E. coli.). Yet it’s incredibly well-researched (the biography at the back is four pages long and is basically just peer-reviewed papers on animal psychology, nanotech, and programming), has a pretty neat supporting cast, and uses the phrase “and then the cave exploded” completely non-ironically.
It’s kind of exactly what it says on the tin, but what did you read today? No limits on content except that it has to be readable (music, movies, etc are cool but don’t count); you can talk about fanfic on this site, fanfic on other sites, published fiction, textbooks, the back of a box of cereal... anything with written words that you yourself have processed with your brain! Reading is a huge part of honing your skill as a writer, and even if you aren’t tackling a book a day, it’s great to keep something on hand.
Please do tag if the thing you’re posting has graphic content/gore, and mark all plot spoilers in spoiler tags. Also, no flaming//please be respectful of your fellow authors.
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Today (yesterday technically) I read Prey by Michael Crichton, which is a scifi/thriller about a cloud of nanobots that has, like all fictional robots, decided to murder the shit out of everyone (I do mean this somewhat literally; they’re part E. coli.). Yet it’s incredibly well-researched (the biography at the back is four pages long and is basically just peer-reviewed papers on animal psychology, nanotech, and programming), has a pretty neat supporting cast, and uses the phrase “and then the cave exploded” completely non-ironically.