ateolf | Reading Books

Finished reading Women as Lovers by Elfriede Jelinek last night. It was really good. Not sure I'd like it as much as I did at first. It's very repetitive and generic (by design) and while I can appreciate that sort of thing, it wasn't grabbing me at first, but as it goes on it really builds up in intensity (through the same methods) and I ended up liking it. It was a bit jarring starting a new book immediately after finishing the one. I started in on some Kerouac and going from the simple, stacatto sentences of Jelinek to his run-on verbosity gave my brain a little bit of a jolt. I was an idiot last night and forgot to turn my work alarms off. Doh! So I woke up with that. Normally I'm able to get back to sleep on such occasions but not today. I lay in bed for almost two hours trying to go to sleep, and while that doesn't sound good on the surface, some good came of it. My thoughts turned to this novella I "started" over a decade ago. I had written the first paragraph or so and that's it. And even though I did write it down, this little bit of writing has been in my head ever since. From time to time I can bring it out and turn it over word for word. I'd come up with those words and the most basic premise, but hadn't really been able to think of anything that happens in it yet. This morning I actually developed a basic outline of stuff that happens. Also a few sentences scattered throughout. Maybe I'll get to writing it soon? I have not written a thing since before I became a teacher. It would definitely be satisfying if I could actually get back into it.