Today we went to the Special Collections floor of the library, and got to see all these cool Art Books. I got to handle a book made of glass. There were a lot of cool ideas and I wish I could have taken pictures. But it was really inspiring.
We've been talking about how there isn't really money to be made in Fiction (unless you are writing Twilight or Hunger Games type books) and my professor is really reinforcing how I already kind of see writing, which is.... a hobby. That needs to get done so you can keep going. But seeing all these different rare books today made me see the book as a piece of art. And maybe you build it, and only one person gets to keep it, like a painting or a sculpture.
And the second thing we've been discussing is e-Literature, which has made me want to learn Flash.
We watched/read this story: Traveling to Utopia a few weeks ago. It's kind of fun. You have to watch it two times. Unless you know Korean, and then you have to watch it three times.
And the third thing he asked us was, why isn't your book a film? So there's a whole 'nother can of worms.
This semester is moving too quickly.
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