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Never Let Me Laugh
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Author
Scott Christenson
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Danh mục
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1 year ago
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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”― Kazuo IshiguroMom killed Nicki last week. I heard the news from my younger sister. When something like this happens, I page through Never Let Me Go, my favorite novel, until the right line hits me. I’ve never had no one in my life I can truly rely on, so maybe being an outsider here is simply a continuation of that.I’m describing this to Oliver, my new roommate, because he’s been sobbing in the corne...
Outstanding reviews
This reminded me of a Fiction story from the New Yorker, great themes and characterization. the details were spot on. When you expand this into your novella, the paragraph of 'I hadn’t realized how wealthy students at Yale could be.." is where you can add more scenes of 'rich kids acting poorly'.“Your -story- must now run the course that's been set for it.” Kazuo Ishiguro ;)
This reminded me of a Fiction story from the New Yorker, great themes and characterization. the details were spot on. When you expand this into your novella, the paragraph of 'I hadn’t realized how wealthy students at Yale could be.." is where you can add more scenes of 'rich kids acting poorly'.“Your -story- must now run the course that's been set for it.” Kazuo Ishiguro ;)
This reminded me of a Fiction story from the New Yorker, great themes and characterization. the details were spot on. When you expand this into your novella, the paragraph of 'I hadn’t realized how wealthy students at Yale could be.." is where you can add more scenes of 'rich kids acting poorly'.“Your -story- must now run the course that's been set for it.” Kazuo Ishiguro ;)
That is ridiculous! A little less pretension out here on the West Coast, or at least the requests for money are more conspicuous If it comes to it though- I'm going to say I know the soon-to-be famous author Scott C. Sure to get me into the Best Places! :)
Boom: "I knew people cheated to get into Yale. I didn’t know they cheat at Yale as well." There goes the social relevance...Chloe brought it all together. Clapping
thanks! happy to get the mr goround comments on my dark academic epic cheating scandal! felt this needed another 3,000 words. Next week is more a one scene story. I had a coworker from yale who deeply annoyed me with his sense of entitlement so just needed to make that school the target even though it was the same school as 'The Secret History' apparently the most famous dark academia book of all type.
ok. 80% of the book quotes are working. The character is like a holding caufield that is inspired by a woman. The way you introduced the professor under investigation was tremendous. I am wondering if he will lie for a girl. You move the Time parade forward one week and at present it seems like a real memory instead of one made up for a girl.So far the flow is good and the characters are introduced in such a way that they have meaning in the short space. I almost hate taking notes instead of just reading....
shirt punchy style works with character voice. Nice table setting, guinea pig. Good tension on Nora intro (you are hitting Norwegian wood style)...I eavesdrop on their conversation. ‘Eavesdrop’ not being the right word when you are standing in front of them, smiling, and feeling completely invisible [third example of excellent narration. It takes forever to quote on my phone... So this was good enough to spend an extra 4 minutes going out].Still reading...
I knew there was a reason I never went to Yale.
haha yeah, maybe its better to avoid all of that. of the grads I've met from ivy league schools, some of them were great, but a high proportion of them have been super lazy and work avoidant compared to people who've come up through public schools. And I recall there was a good student from my high school class who went to harvard, came back over the summer and said harvard used exactly the same text books as everyplace else and it wasn't that special. I did hear she went into NGO work later on and did well.
haha yeah, maybe its better to avoid all of that. of the grads I've met from ivy league schools, some of them were great, but a high proportion of them have been super lazy and work avoidant compared to people who've come up through public schools. And I recall there was a good student from my high school class who went to harvard, came back over the summer and said harvard used exactly the same text books as everyplace else and it wasn't that special. I did hear she went into NGO work later on and did well.
My first attempt at Dark Academia turned out to be slightly too long for a short story, but was fun to write.
My first attempt at Dark Academia turned out to be slightly too long for a short story, but was fun to write.
Thanks Tom! I feel like I had a lot of ideas going on here, probably could stretch this out over a full ya novel, but nice to hear you picked up on the main themes I had in mind. How wealthy students might have learned from their parents to be more Machiavellian in how they deal with others (I've heard stories) And in real life a lot of drama and conflict just fizzles out unresolved.
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