11.05.2025 (2): A Nice Sandwich of a Day
May. 11th, 2025 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunshowerdandelionA very hearty day I think. I did a lot of things which always stretches out time, so that by the end of the day I was in slight disbelief: All that in one day? But yes. I managed to wolf down Mothering Sunday because I think, at its heart, it's a bit of a literary thriller, and I wanted to know what happened next. Did not manage to do so with Tonio Kroger, but maybe I'll start on that. So much to read! I'm very happy, needless to say.
The rest of the day I spent sleeping and swimming and eating sandwiches in a cafe. Also trying not to eat too much. And playing games, a little. I do feel a little guilty at not having read any Alice Munro today, but tomorrow I'll start on that.
I suppose reading Mothering Sunday was a fulfillment of my promise to read something about writing? As for writing itself: I managed to write a bit more of the AU. Reading that book made me think about emotional impact and about cohesion in general. I think I'm too much a scattered, moment-by-moment fanfic author, whereas any book (as Ursula Le Guin says) is judged not by the beauty of sentences but by overall cohesion. This is what I'm still trying to work at.
Observations:
The rest of the day I spent sleeping and swimming and eating sandwiches in a cafe. Also trying not to eat too much. And playing games, a little. I do feel a little guilty at not having read any Alice Munro today, but tomorrow I'll start on that.
I suppose reading Mothering Sunday was a fulfillment of my promise to read something about writing? As for writing itself: I managed to write a bit more of the AU. Reading that book made me think about emotional impact and about cohesion in general. I think I'm too much a scattered, moment-by-moment fanfic author, whereas any book (as Ursula Le Guin says) is judged not by the beauty of sentences but by overall cohesion. This is what I'm still trying to work at.
Observations:
- Several women, complete strangers, happening across one another at the pool. Over the course of laps the women build up a rapport and talk amongst themselves. Among them a woman who beckons her older sister to swim now, because the pool will soon be overrun by younger children with their swimming lessons.
