This one's kinda out there but Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao?? It's a super great dystopian blend of Chinese mythology, history, and mecha fiction about this girl who basically takes over the world. It's hard to explain because it's set in a totally different world with a lot of cool sci-fi features but if you like stuff like Hunger Games or Divergent then you'd probably like this one!!! (it also has a sequel, Heavenly Tyrant, coming out on Christmas this year)
Yes I've read it and its sequel! My elementary school librarians (who I was best friends with and who let me work at the desk) recommended it to me and for days afterward I would bang into the library as soon as I got to school, fuming or crying or elated about whatever had happened next in the books. Librarians are awesome <3
WHAT why are you even asking?????? YES ABSOLUTELY that sounds so good and the gender switch=brilliant, and the Orpheus/Eurydice story doesn't get told often so yes totally you should! i would definitely read this :D happy writing!
I'm so glad you noticed the biblical parallels! Thank you so much for leaving this nice of comment, you have no idea how much it means to me for someone to like my writing. I'm not sure yet if I'll expand on these two lol but thanks for the encouragement!
This captures the stages of emotion in winter so well: the elation of that first snowfall, the peacefulness of the silent, blanketed streets, the anticipation of both the holidays, etc., and the darker parts of the season as well -- the incapacitating storms and the drudgery of the sludge that follows that eventually "ruins the perfect canvas," as you say. I loved the imagery of the "desperate penguin huddles," too. Ahhh!
Poems about writer's block or creative constipation are a favorite subgenre of mine, because they always contradict themselves within their inherent sense of consternation: You wind up making something new out of your inability to make something new. I was laughing and nodding along to this.
Wow, this is some of the most unique frost patterning I've ever seen! I thought it was a flurry at first, not frost at all. I almost see it as a crowded airspace traffic jam of paper airplanes, or confetti!
This one's kinda out there but Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao?? It's a super great dystopian blend of Chinese mythology, history, and mecha fiction about this girl who basically takes over the world. It's hard to explain because it's set in a totally different world with a lot of cool sci-fi features but if you like stuff like Hunger Games or Divergent then you'd probably like this one!!! (it also has a sequel, Heavenly Tyrant, coming out on Christmas this year)
Yes I've read it and its sequel! My elementary school librarians (who I was best friends with and who let me work at the desk) recommended it to me and for days afterward I would bang into the library as soon as I got to school, fuming or crying or elated about whatever had happened next in the books. Librarians are awesome <3
WHAT why are you even asking?????? YES ABSOLUTELY that sounds so good and the gender switch=brilliant, and the Orpheus/Eurydice story doesn't get told often so yes totally you should! i would definitely read this :D happy writing!
that's gorgeoussss
I'm so glad you noticed the biblical parallels! Thank you so much for leaving this nice of comment, you have no idea how much it means to me for someone to like my writing. I'm not sure yet if I'll expand on these two lol but thanks for the encouragement!
Thanks so much! That's super helpful. I'll let you know how it goes :)
Thank you! :)
This captures the stages of emotion in winter so well: the elation of that first snowfall, the peacefulness of the silent, blanketed streets, the anticipation of both the holidays, etc., and the darker parts of the season as well -- the incapacitating storms and the drudgery of the sludge that follows that eventually "ruins the perfect canvas," as you say. I loved the imagery of the "desperate penguin huddles," too. Ahhh!
Poems about writer's block or creative constipation are a favorite subgenre of mine, because they always contradict themselves within their inherent sense of consternation: You wind up making something new out of your inability to make something new. I was laughing and nodding along to this.
Wow, this is some of the most unique frost patterning I've ever seen! I thought it was a flurry at first, not frost at all. I almost see it as a crowded airspace traffic jam of paper airplanes, or confetti!