My friend Jon is in Iraq and he and I are writing back and forth, mostly about my random college experiances and a few things about this military business. I wrote an incredibly long email to him describing my entire week and it was so funny whe he wrote me back. The email started with one of his overly sarcastic comments..."well, aren't we the budding novelist" I don't even remember how hard i was laughing at that but it was funny, I told him that I was planning on writing at least one book in my lifetime and I was testing my writing skills out on him. anyway here's what I wrote back to him when he told me he'd critique my writing.
Jon: "Well I don’t know If I'm the person to ask about critiquing writing, i cant even spell right any more after almost two years in the army. But u seem to have a good sense of imagery."
I think opinions on my writing are good from writing, I like to get a diverse set of opinions from every type of reader, I don't want to be that writer that writes for a specific demographic and no one else can relate to it, thats not my style. so rag all you want, I love feedback good or bad!
Oooh I'm so excited to hang out and introduce you to everyone when you get back! you've got to come hang out with my family too, its a requirementfor all my friends -haha. we are so insane(my family that is) this Christmas was soo great! my friend Garis came over on Christmas because he lives with a bunch of guys and couldn't go home for the holidays, and we had so much fun, my little brothers friend came over too! we had a blast, making pancakes, milk toast for breakfast, playing games and just generally messing around, i love it.
Jon: "i know im not the most pleasant person to be around at times and i can be some what negative but im very honest and loyal. id like to be around people who have the same integrity. Plus i want to be around people who will challenge me to be better. Know what I mean? "
I understand about the negativity factor, since I can come off that way sometimes, I'm such the morbid realist, its sad, I know...I'm working on being a bit nicer and less harsh, I suppose. Oh, man I'm so tired, I just got back from touring an amazing piece of Architectural History (namely the home/studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, the famous architect) my friend Margarite and I left around 10:30am today and we didn't get back downtown (where our dorms are) until 4pm it was insane & really cold! but I think I got some decent pictures of some of the houses he designed in the surrounding neighborhood and if I ever get them developed I'll be sure and post them so you can check them out. I'll have to tell you about work last night and my adventures today a bit later, I'm about to fall over from sheer exhaustion, so I'm going to sleep, we'll talk later
Rebecca
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