Thursday after my Intermediate Fiction class ended, one of the other students approached me and asked if I would be able to read the rough draft of her story and critique it. She was deeply impressed by my previous story (the Holocaust one that I blogged about earlier) and, since she doesn’t expect a ton of valuable feedback from her small group, she asked for my feedback as well. Actually, she said she would be “honored” if I would look at her story. Apparently I’m more susceptible to flattery than I thought, because I agreed to critique it for her. (Just kidding, just kidding. She did say she would be honored if I looked at her story, and I could tell she was completely serious. And I have no problem helping other writers with their stories.)
I also went down to the public library and checked out the movies Defiance and Love in the Time of Cholera. I’m going to watch them because they are similar in some ways to two of the novel ideas I have, and I want to pick up a few tips. So sometime this week I’ll be kicking back and enjoying a couple of historical films. Have you ever watched them before? What did you think of them? I’ll try to post a review of each.
