IWSG - August Edition

Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!

August 5 question - Quote: "Although I have written a short story collection, the form found me and not the other way around. Don't write short stories, novels or poems. Just write your truth and your stories will mold into the shapes they need to be."
Have you ever written a piece that became a form, or even a genre, you hadn't planned on writing in? Or do you choose a form/genre in advance?

The awesome co-hosts for the August 5 posting of the IWSG are Susan Baury Rouchard, Nancy Gideon, Jennifer Lane, Jennifer Hawes, Chemist Ken, and Chrys Fey!


In answer to the question of the month, I feel like the idea chooses the form and genre. For example, for the longest time I always wrote from the third person pov, and one of my earliest works is a bloated fantasy that's third person omniscient. But then along came a story that wanted be written in the first person pov. Or the scifi when I almost always write something under the fantasy heading. I never expected to write a scifi novel, much as I love them, but then the idea came and it had to be scifi. There was no question. So for me, the idea chooses and I try to write the story.

In other news, we had some sweltering hot weather at the beginning of the week, and it's been as dry as a bone pretty much the whole month. Rain is on the way but not until next Tuesday... I admit I almost wanted to insert a winter's day it was so hot, and that is very unlike me.

As for books, I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon, which I recommend to anyone who appreciates books, authors, secret libraries, and gorgeous descriptions of Barcelona.

"The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, The Shadow of the Wind, by Julián Carax. The novel is rare, the author obscure, and rumors tell of a horribly disfigured man who has been burning every copy he can find of Carax's novels." 

 

I also recently ordered this, which I couldn't resist. Who doesn't like an orphanage story?!

I've finally finished Dark, a German series on Netflix I adored (and if you like twisty time travel, I highly recommend the series. I watched it with subtitles because I generally can't stand dubbing), and I just watched the first two episodes of The Umbrella Academy. I'm already sad there's only ten episodes.

What have you been reading, watching, doing? Something fun I hope.