So, it has been about forever and a half sense i had posted anything on my 'Books and more books' blog. My ideas of books have slightly changed sense my become an author myself. Not a published one mind you, but an author none the less. So far i have been stuck on Stephen King, reading his earlier novels, and his writing has been a big inspiration on myself. What i have found though is I do not write like he does, but mainly plot as he does. Stephen King has a wonderful art of dragging a story out to make it more suspenseful, and I do not. My first story, being only ten pages long, is working its way into popularity among my peers. My illiterate friends loved it, and once it moved onto my teachers, who were also thoroughly impressed, i realized that I had some potential with this writing thing.
I am now working on my second story, which is already almost as long as my first story and is still in its exposition. I found the art of action, and unlike Stephen King, is extreamly fast paced. My father, a great fan of liturater, was amazed at my abitily to write such fast pased story with enough detail for it to be easily understood. I have gotten diolog down a bit too. Though i'm still in the eariler stages of my writing carrer, i beleive that it will take me to big places in life. Now enough about me.
Once i am done with 'The Stand' by Stephen King, I will be moving on to 'The Gulag Archipelago' which is, from what i have heard, a two thousand page masterpeice. What i have found within books is a well writen story is not the only thing i love, though i do love it, i also need something long. When i find a short book i read it in a day, maybe two, because of my 20 hour a week reading trips. With vacation on the way, i need something that will keep me entertained for hours on end and wont leave me without reading matural half way through the trip. This is why i have been drawn to the 'epics' lately.
As far as shorter stories goes, i will by them three at a time. And three in the minimum. I read 'Lord of the Flys' in a single night, man that was a great book. I love the society crumbling on itself plotlines, and many others of that nature. I also read the new child's fictional book 'I Am Number Four' and thought it was okay. As far as story lines go, i love realism. The book tended to the childs 'intilectual level' more than i would have liked, and has pushed me away from reading the rest of the story. Though, it was a fun read. I read it in one day after my finals tests.
Well, thats all for now children,
Nicholas Zint
