Two in One

Thursday and Friday were much more productive then the rest of the week (even with my turning 18 on Friday). During those two days I managed to get through several chapters of my book, so many that I am almost at the end (though I do admit I could have done a better job at editing so I may need to go through them a second time like I did with my first chapter). I also read a lot more of Inkspell,which I believe I gave a little too much time to. Unfortunately, though I got quite a bit of work done, I still manged to be distracted my my mother's two cats (mostly the nine month old kitten) when I should have been focusing on my work. My sister also watched some TV which just served to distract me even more from my book; even though they are the stupidest things in the world, and I think that they serve no real purpose, I find myself struggling to resist watching shows where people yell at each other and there are so many bleeps you would think the producer is just doing so to make the show more interesting (I mean they are literally like "You *bleep* mother *bleep* *bleep*! I hate *bleep* *bleep* *bleeeeeeeep*'s like you!" Who curses like that? Really?). On Thursday I interviewed writer Rob Wilder and asked him questions like "When did you know you wanted to be a writer?" and "What sort of traits does a writer need to have?". My favorite thing he told me was (this has to do with the second question that I mentioned above) was "Put your ass in the chair and write". My sister in playing Joy Division right now. This past week I actually thought a bit about music, and how it also tells stories. I mostly thought about this when I listened to Martin Carthy. Three of his songs that I have of his seem to old folk tales that were adapted into songs. Because of this I have come to think that stories are very flexible: they can be put into so many different forms (songs, books, poems, etc) which only makes them more accessible to more people.