All Blog Posts Tagged 'hemingway' (3)

Listen Jena, when he was young, poor, and hungry in Paris, Hemingway used to go to museums. He said his hunger brightened the colors of every painting he saw. With critics giving The Dark Knight Rises a standing ovation at an advanced screening, the wait for this movie is killing me. So, rather than sit and listen to my stomach rumble, I thought it best to let the hunger brighten some other good pop. Here are three ways to prepare for The Dark Knight…

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Listen, Jena, after that great lunch you whipped up yesterday I showed your brother my newly organized library and talked our way into the idea that books and stories make places and experiences immeasurably better.

 

Phrases like “those who can’t do teach” and “get your nose out of a book” suggest  that reading about some exciting place is a poor or cowardly man’s way of seeing it for himself. The idea there is that reading is a poor imitation of actual experience.

I’m…

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I wrote a novel in 3 days during the Labor Day weekend. It took me six days to fully recover. I mailed it off to the contest headquarters and now I have to wait until January to find out who wins. I'm pretty sure that I'll win because I wrote on the front of the envelope "Pick Me! :) "



No one told me that I would experience the full spectrum of emotions in a three day period of time. It was truly a rollercoaster ride. I started off with excitement and ended up with anger and… Continue