Yesterday I finished "Ender in Exile" by Orson Scott Card. I have some issues with the middle third having a contrived plot. And I always felt Ender Wiggin is a wooden character -- as opposed to Bean, whom I love like a real person.
But one thing cannot be denied. Orson Scott Card is a masterful writer.
Sometimes I read writing that is exquisite, like the Ender's Shadow series, or J K Rowling at her prime in Harry Potter 7, or Middlesex, and I feel overwhelmed by how beautifully it is executed. Their mastery is breathtaking.
And then a vain little hope stirs in my secret heart that maybe one day, decades from now, I would be able to write a novel or short story that I would consider beautiful. Not as beautiful as those books, since those are three of the top authors living in the world, but just a novel that I would be proud of, that I could look at and see as beautiful.
It seems a lot to hope for though. I already am blessed to have an amazing calling-in-life, and to have work that I find deeply fulfilling. So it seems too much to ask, to also be able to write fiction beautifully on top of that.
But when I read books by these masterful artists, hope leaps up in my heart of hearts.
But one thing cannot be denied. Orson Scott Card is a masterful writer.
Sometimes I read writing that is exquisite, like the Ender's Shadow series, or J K Rowling at her prime in Harry Potter 7, or Middlesex, and I feel overwhelmed by how beautifully it is executed. Their mastery is breathtaking.
And then a vain little hope stirs in my secret heart that maybe one day, decades from now, I would be able to write a novel or short story that I would consider beautiful. Not as beautiful as those books, since those are three of the top authors living in the world, but just a novel that I would be proud of, that I could look at and see as beautiful.
It seems a lot to hope for though. I already am blessed to have an amazing calling-in-life, and to have work that I find deeply fulfilling. So it seems too much to ask, to also be able to write fiction beautifully on top of that.
But when I read books by these masterful artists, hope leaps up in my heart of hearts.
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