I've a pasta bake in the oven right now, so this is going to be a short post. I'll write more on my Musing Page later, I've a good topic for today!
Anyway, I should be writing my first essay for my MA today. It's on the research methods that writers use when writing their novels etc. That is not as easy as it sounds actually. I've chosen to write about Ern Malley because he interested me more. Here's the story for the people who don't know. Malley is an Austrian poet, but actually he and his poetry were a hoax and they were invented by two Austrian poets during the Second World War. The idea behind it was to get back at the editor of a journal. Things didn't go to plan and the editor was put on trail for publishing what was seen as harmful material.
Peter Carey wrote his novel My Life As A Fake based on the hoax. So for my essay I must look at where Carey got his information form and how/why he made the choices during writing his novel about how much fiction and fact went into his writing. I must also look at why he choice the form of his novel, because he must have done some reseach into that as well. Some how I've to write all of this in just 2,000 words! I've no breathing room and it all must be spot on, so my task is even harder now.
That pasta smells good....I forget about the simple things like eating when I'm writing. I get too caught up. I think it might be a bit late to start my essay now, but I'm eager to do some writing. I can feel it in my fingers. I don't know about other writers, but when I need to get my writing fix, my fingers get twitchy and my brain becomes programed on plotlines and characters of whatever it is I've choicen to write. I feel the strange urge to pick up my postmodern novel again. Though I need to read a few chapters before hand to get back into it. I like trying different ways to write novels. This one uses the method of only thinking about it whilst I'm writing it. Thus I'm creating the distant that needs to surrond the novel.
Okay, need to see that pasta bake now!
Anyway, I should be writing my first essay for my MA today. It's on the research methods that writers use when writing their novels etc. That is not as easy as it sounds actually. I've chosen to write about Ern Malley because he interested me more. Here's the story for the people who don't know. Malley is an Austrian poet, but actually he and his poetry were a hoax and they were invented by two Austrian poets during the Second World War. The idea behind it was to get back at the editor of a journal. Things didn't go to plan and the editor was put on trail for publishing what was seen as harmful material.
Peter Carey wrote his novel My Life As A Fake based on the hoax. So for my essay I must look at where Carey got his information form and how/why he made the choices during writing his novel about how much fiction and fact went into his writing. I must also look at why he choice the form of his novel, because he must have done some reseach into that as well. Some how I've to write all of this in just 2,000 words! I've no breathing room and it all must be spot on, so my task is even harder now.
Okay, need to see that pasta bake now!
