I am about to attempt to write my first novel.  I have not started on my new script yet.  I was going to last week, but I got food poisoned.  So, I am going to be writing them both at the same time.  The new script should not take long, because it is something I am going to try to write, direct and maybe produce myself.  Which means it is a very simple few location script.  That is if life does not give me any U turns. 

I think writers need feed back.  I think it needs to be someone they trust, but who will also be honest or maybe hire someone.  The only problem if you hire someone is it cost a lot of money and you don't know if they are good at it.  There is a guy named John at the Truby Writer's Studio. (not John Truby)   He is awesome at that type of thing.  I don't know how much he would charge though.   

I just finished reading The Invention Of Morel, a really good sf novella.

I am also in the middle of reading New World New Mind by Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich. It's about the evolution of the mind and the inadequacies of our minds in the new world as a result of explosive cultural evolution.

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

also reading short stories by H.P. Lovecraft randomly as well

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

My husband loves those books.  He found the first four at a rummage sale when we were up in Washington for the '06 fest--1-5 in softcover for a buck! Since then he has gotten them all.

I am now reading The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans.

Two books later adapted into films: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest. V is excellent, and making the Wachowski's script seem more and more pat by the chapter.

I haven't gotten very far into the latter, but it seems correct that they dropped the modern-day framing device for the film.

Logic Hat Online- logichat.org

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band  (Motley Crue)

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

 By the way, if any of you are on Goodreads.com, I would enjoy perusing your book lists.

-cg

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

Ange's Odyssey

And now I'm onto Don DeLillo's White Noise, since it was discussed in the Recommended reading thread.

-cg

Fiction; re-reading 'Bad Monkeys' by Matt Ruff.  Enjoying it quite a bit, as I did his 'Fool on the Hill' and 'Sewer Gas & Electric'.  LOVED 'Set this House in Order'. I regularly re-read stuff but this was the first, and to date only, book I picked up within a week of finishing it and read it again, cover to cover.

 Non ficiton; 'Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity' by Robert Jensen.  Can't say I'm enjoying it but it is good in the way only the most difficult books can be.

rb

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu