Just got around to reading The Yellow Wallpaper, which I recall someone on here mentioning quite a while ago (I think it might have been coop?), but I really enjoyed it. It's given me an idea that I might try to develop into a short story for the writing anthology, but I don't know just yet. I'm interested in the experimentation with perspective. People percieving things in a radically different way than normal. For example (SPOILERS) the narrator in the Yellow Wallpaper seeing the women in the wallpaper, the narrator in Fight Club seeing his alter ego as another person, David Wong under the influence of Soy Sauce in John Dies in the End (I'm still reading this at the moment, also thoroughly enjoying this), etc etc, and while I don't think my idea is anything overly radical or fucked up, it should at least provide an interesting challenge in addressing themes of identity and belonging, some ideas I've been wanting to tackle hard in my literature lately.
Oh yeah, now that I'm on my uni break I'm hoping to get through quite a lot of reading, as well as a lot of writing. After John Dies in the End, I'll be reading House of Leaves, which a friend loaned me because of its radically different narrative style, so I'm looking forward to getting into that. I've still got a ton of books on my bookshelf that I haven't read yet, or I've started reading but haven't finished, I think there's around 40-50 books, but at the moment I'm putting the classics to the side for the real innovative contemporary books that I've got. As a writer, I think as much as the classics were an essential part of shaping the literary world as we know it today, the 'conteporary classics' are about the here and now, and I feel there's a lot more room for experimentation in today's market.
I very briefly started writing my robot day story, and aside from that, I'll be writing something for the anthology, and that's all specifically for Newgrounds, so it feels good to write stuff specifically for this site again. Outside of this, however, I've submitted a poem to a local magazine, which recieved some very positive feedback from uni, although I won't know the outcome of the publication for some months. I'm also probably going to send off another short story to a competition, $3000 first prize. The short story's been well recieved by peers and writing friends, although I haven't recieved a mark from my tutor just yet, I'm hoping it should fare quite well in the competition, which, again, won't really have much to say for a few months.
I'd like to write more poetry over the coming weeks, although I can't really say much about having plans for that, as it usually just comes in the moment, with very little pre-emptive thought going into it. I'm sure at the end of the year I'll be making a push for something completely different. I'll definitely be aiming to have another draft novel tucked under my belt come NaNoWriMo in November, and next semester I'll be doing a unit on script writing, which should be fun, as I feel some of my short stories would work better as film scripts. Anywho, that's about everything for me at the moment, might be going on a writer's workshop with a few friends sometime next month, but we'll see how things go.
But definitely, ahem, give the Yellow Wallpaper a read. If you take anything from my post, it should be that over the whole "hey guys just popping in to talk extensively about me" paragraphs above.