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Yeah, I'll start studying tonight...
May. 15th, 2006 08:23 pmAnd who else would be reading a novel but a bookish girl? Ms. Viswanathan (see the Opal Mehta plagiarism scandal) is a bookish girl who might have had more success at fiction if she didn't bear the burden of the overachiever. Overachievers don't generally become writers because the skill set is so different.
As I tell my writing students, if you want to be a writer work on the finer points of gossip, eavesdropping and voyeurism; basically the pastimes of the underachiever, ways to while away the hours. If you care to add smoking, drinking and carousing to your repertoire, you wouldn't be the first (though you might want to watch the whining that can sometimes be a consequence of the drinking — it's more unattractive than you think).
- "Unoriginal Sin" by Whitney Otto, published May 12, 2006 in NYT
Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans, 1852-1965 by Bob Wing (omg, awesome name)
It's things like this that make me want to take an Asian American course, except those don't exist at CMU. xDDDD I have the next best thing, I suppose. *works for an Asian American interest magazine, I'm the Online Manager next year, biotches!*
As I tell my writing students, if you want to be a writer work on the finer points of gossip, eavesdropping and voyeurism; basically the pastimes of the underachiever, ways to while away the hours. If you care to add smoking, drinking and carousing to your repertoire, you wouldn't be the first (though you might want to watch the whining that can sometimes be a consequence of the drinking — it's more unattractive than you think).
- "Unoriginal Sin" by Whitney Otto, published May 12, 2006 in NYT
Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans, 1852-1965 by Bob Wing (omg, awesome name)
It's things like this that make me want to take an Asian American course, except those don't exist at CMU. xDDDD I have the next best thing, I suppose. *works for an Asian American interest magazine, I'm the Online Manager next year, biotches!*
