The effect of a Novel.
You should try writing something after having read a certain kind of book. It shows you how a Novel or a short story can alter your mind. Maby the novel is more intrusive to the mind, because the word flow has time to establish itself and a pattern in your unconsciousness. A short story’s’ pattern will probably wear off faster than a Novel unless you read several similar writings. Still the short story may change the way you think for a while, but the work of a novel can only be altered by the work of another novel. Even then it will only add to the existing pattern. It can push out and cover some of the old pattern, but some of the old pattern will stay inside you. You get ideas, inspiration, and even advice on how to write by reading other authors books. Therefore you should be careful to write down what you think before you read a novel, and then match it to what you think when you are done reading. A novel doesn’t have to be great in order to alter your mind. You can hate the characters, despise its cliché imagery or just dread the plot. But you can’t escape that little change that happens to you as you get one book richer and have acquired new knowledge.
"If we shadows have offended, Think of this and all is mended:That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear…"-W.Shakespear
This is so true. When I read The Catcher in The Rye, I walked around thinking like Holden Caufield for a long time. And I am well aware of how my writing “voice” changes a bit just after I’ve read a book. I’m always careful with that though, let something else occupy my mind after I’ve finished a really good book, so that I can find my own voice again. It might be that I am still changed a little, but atleast I’m back to a better version of my “writing voice”, if you get what I mean 8D;
When I say “thinking” like Holden Caufield, I obviously mean my “inner momologue” was very holdenish , haha.
XD yea, I get it. I do that too. It can be a little annoying, because sometimes I don’t feel like my self. Sometimes even a movie can change the way I think for a while. This is why I need commercials after a horror movie!! Feeling silly for telling this, but it’s true.
Now that we have read E.M Forster I can fill in a page with how a book alters the mind. I hope I don’t get depressed by reading Virginia Wolf. I’ll try to remember to write something after reading her books too, because I expect her writing to be really deep:)
No, no, don’t feel silly. I feel the same way, haha. Happens to me whether it is a movie or a book, or…a series on tv. It can happen because of a lot of things, I find. O: A game, even.
In one way though, that’s something I’ve always wanted to do myself. Have a twist, or an incident in my book (FUTURE BOOK!) that makes the reader slightly unable to…shake it all off 83;
Whether it’s a good or bad feeling, if a book changes the way you think and/or feel…it’s a good friggin book.
well, Howards End which is the book I’ve just read is not that extraordinary, but he’s good at describing scenery. Other than that I want to slap most of his characters in the face and ask them to get real! (oh, the irony. XD ) But I’ve also read Aspects of the Novel by the same man and he does the same with his lectures. He talks a lot, and tell not so much. Aaand I kind of used his own book on the novel to criticize his characters for my obligatory assignment. Maby I’ll post it here or on watpad.XD