I recently read an absurdist book. It was weird, as expected. I was given it at this program I did called CTD at Northwestern. That stands for Center of Talent Development, where you are supposed to nurture a specific talent or interest. I was in creative writing. Don't get me wrong it was a terrific program....but all we did was write stories. I loved it.
Anyways back to the book. It's called the Order of Odd-Fish. Its tale about a girl, Jo, who was found with a note that said she was dangerous. The story goes on to Jo and a talking cockroach , her aunt and a strange man go off to Odd-Fish where she hides a terrible secret.
Anyways back to the book. It's called the Order of Odd-Fish. Its tale about a girl, Jo, who was found with a note that said she was dangerous. The story goes on to Jo and a talking cockroach , her aunt and a strange man go off to Odd-Fish where she hides a terrible secret.
I actually met the author -he was a teacher at CTD. He gave us some advice and insight as to how he wrote the book that I figured I should share.
This can go into the advice part of this blog.
1) Don't mix work with pleasure
If you spend too much time learning the inner workings and pieces of literature, you will later become not interested in it and go into something else. If you focus too intently on a subject, you will eventually lose interest.
2)When deciding upon sidekick names try to stick to three letter ones.
Ex: Han (Star Wars), Ron (Harry Potter) etc.
3) When deciding upon a name for the protagonist, don't pick something that the readers will tire of.
For this particular book, Jo. (It is short)
4)When editing, try to shorten the book as much as possible. If something can be removed. Remove it.
That is all I currently remember.
Now don;t just sit there. Go write a book or something!
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