After posting irregularly for sometime, (kind of like a stray cat coming around whenever it feels like it, expecting a meal), I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been tagged, and given a specific time, as well as a series option. From now on, my posts will be at 3 PM, Sunday.
I’m equally pleased to announce that my new series will be titled: “The Magic Theater” after the section of Herman Hesse’s famous work Steppenwolf, a section that I feel epitomizes literature and the possibilities therein. However, with me starting back at college soon, the series will still be haphazard—the postings of a drug-addled, raving lunatic acting on a combination of whim and available time. And, as raving lunatics are normally inclined, there won’t be any real order or cohesive factor in my posts. This is just me writing about what I want to write about, when I have the time and energy to try and say something worth saying.
I have posted various diaries for the group over the past few months, mostly focused around Japanese Literature, which is the literary field I tend to read heaviest in. I do bits on other things, such as redistricting on occasion, but have quit for the most part with policy and punditry diaries. However, now that I have an open series like this, and a more consistent quota to try and fill, I will be writing on a wider array of subjects—write ups on fantasy authors, introductions to other famous others, genre reviews, manga reviews, and even posting some of my college essays when they fit.
For all that needs to be known about me, I’m an incoming Junior at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. I’m an active writer, still building up my resume, mainly working in the novel form, and with poetry when I want a change of pace. I am a big reader, albeit a finicky reader, easily displeased by gimmicks and mainly after well-constructed, serious stories with excellent character work and character development; this is even true in most of my light reading.
More than anything, I suck with personal introductions as is obvious, and hate drawing out situations where I have nothing much to say. I just wanted to announce the quasi-regular series and the time spot that I’ll be posting in. Looking forward to the future discussions with all of you, and hope to see more of the group in my readership,
Auf Wiedersehen,
jw