Writing again
Over the last week I have been thinking a lot about a project I have. I actually finished the project a couple of years ago, so the novel itself is complete, but I am so unhappy with how it turned out that I decided to go back to it. Because I was so unhappy with it, I never published it even though I completed it back when Gurt Dog Press was still running.
I've done a lot of tweaking to the characters and completely changed the plan for the beginning of the story. It felt like I wasted several chapters on stuff that contributed nothing to the plot, so it was better to completely remove that stuff. Instead I have opted for something a lot more exciting: a plane crash! What's not exciting about that? I also changed the back story of a few characters and I'm working on changing the history of the village where it takes place. It seems like a lot, but it's actually not. I just need to edit the manuscript and add things in, a bit like dumping ketchup on a plate of chips really.
School has been riding me quite a bit. I am very tired of how much brain power I am having to put towards my schoolwork, especially since I am struggling to motivate myself with it. We're reading The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated to Swedish and I am hating every minute of it. I can't stand Hanna, I think she's just an overall shitty person and I struggled with her behaviour at the beginning of the story. I explained my issue to my teacher and she literally defended Hanna! That had me totally confused. Imo Hanna is irredeemable... but I guess that's just my opinion. I need to re-watch the movie but I don't feel like it. We will be writing a comparison essay on the movie and book later in the course and I am already dreading it.
I am thinking about other things to add to my website. I have seen some people make shrines for stuff they are into and I think I might do the same. There are a lot of random stuff that I love to bits but no way of expressing how I feel about it in daily life. Maybe a shrine page would be a lot of fun.