The Art of Fiction

I've had this book, The Art of Fiction by David Lodge sitting in my bookshelf since 2007. I still haven't read it. I hate analysing what I read, because analysing my favourite novels at school has killed the magic, and now I see them just as chopped pieces of alphabet, and all the memories and illusions are gone. But somehow I have had the feeling that if I read what Lodge has thought of those texts in that book, I would find more things to pay attention to.

Not that I wrote to please anyone.

The book has 50 themes/topics/techniques discussed, and at times I would like to start from 1 and go to 50, read it, and write something myself based on what kinds of thoughts the texts provoked.

I should really write more.

I do have tons of blogs, but they're not the kind of stuff I would really want to write. They're just blogs. Just like this. Although I will start publishing my short rants here. Those rants being actual stories or at least pieces of non-bloggish fiction. Something short and simple.

I should stop saying "I should" and just go to "I will".

Someone should write a book called The Art of Stopping Procrastinating and Just Getting Your Fingers to Type NOW.