Hiiiiiiii!!!!!!
So I just realized that I didn't really understand Michel's question about me on YWP today...I actually am on both YWP and Adult, so if you friended Wom Bat on YWP don't worry, that was me :). My adult one was the novel that I was actually writing, while the YWP one was a novel that I had already written, but I was expanding it and editing it during November from about 50000 words to about 63000 words. So I am Wom Bat on both adult and YWP. Sorry for the confusion :)
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Odyssey Books 8-13
Alright. Here it goes. I'm just going to come right out in say it.
I think I like Telemachus better.
I know, I know, over my past few blogs I've been all "Bla bla bla, boring Telemachus. Bla bla bla, when do we get to hang with Ulysses?" But I realize now that this whole time I've been excited to hear Ulysses' story, not see Ulysses himself.
Because honestly, Ulysses is sort of a wombat.
Like on the last page before the end of book 13, he gets home and he has all this treasure, and he's still all, "Curse you, Phaecians" when they just happily got him home and gave him all this treasure! And then Athena (sorry Minerva) shows up after helping him all this time and Ulysses is all angry at her for no reason. He also makes up this extravagant lie story and tells it to her for half a page. What's up with that?
Yeah, I know that I'm all putting down Ulysses, but I actually did like his story. The only part that I really had a problem with is when he was in the Hades place and talking to all the dead people. Why did Homer have to tell us every single story? Not even just a couple, either. He talks to random ghosts and hears their stories for about five pages!!! What a waste of paper!!! And for all the women ghosts' stories it basically goes like this: (Insert name here) gets married. (Insert name here) has two sons. (Insert sons' names here) do all this stuff and the rest of the story is about (Insert sons' names here). So at this point I was all "Okay, what a great story about these women *sarcastically*." And then I got kind of mad because then Ulysses is all tired from talking and Arete is all "Okay, servants why don't you guys do this and this and this for Ulysses?" But then all the servants are all, "We ain't taking orders from no woman." And I was all, "Excuuuuse me?" And then to add to everything, Ulysses talks to Agamemnon and Agamemnon is all, "Keep a bunch of secrets from your wife." Want proof? Page 80, paragraph three. Then even worse, Agamemnon says, and I quote, "[do not tell people when you are bringing your ship to Ithaca, but steal a march upon them, for] there is no trusting women." Again. Page 80, paragraph three.
So anyways, on a different note, I'm sort of confused as to what the rest of the book is about at the moment. I mean, we're barely even halfway done with the book and we've already: Explained the whole Ithaca and suitor situation, had Telemachus go on his journey, tell Ulysses' tale, and got Ulysses home. What else is there to do? Ulysses beats up the suitors and the end. Or is it.....?
I think I like Telemachus better.
I know, I know, over my past few blogs I've been all "Bla bla bla, boring Telemachus. Bla bla bla, when do we get to hang with Ulysses?" But I realize now that this whole time I've been excited to hear Ulysses' story, not see Ulysses himself.
Because honestly, Ulysses is sort of a wombat.
Like on the last page before the end of book 13, he gets home and he has all this treasure, and he's still all, "Curse you, Phaecians" when they just happily got him home and gave him all this treasure! And then Athena (sorry Minerva) shows up after helping him all this time and Ulysses is all angry at her for no reason. He also makes up this extravagant lie story and tells it to her for half a page. What's up with that?
Yeah, I know that I'm all putting down Ulysses, but I actually did like his story. The only part that I really had a problem with is when he was in the Hades place and talking to all the dead people. Why did Homer have to tell us every single story? Not even just a couple, either. He talks to random ghosts and hears their stories for about five pages!!! What a waste of paper!!! And for all the women ghosts' stories it basically goes like this: (Insert name here) gets married. (Insert name here) has two sons. (Insert sons' names here) do all this stuff and the rest of the story is about (Insert sons' names here). So at this point I was all "Okay, what a great story about these women *sarcastically*." And then I got kind of mad because then Ulysses is all tired from talking and Arete is all "Okay, servants why don't you guys do this and this and this for Ulysses?" But then all the servants are all, "We ain't taking orders from no woman." And I was all, "Excuuuuse me?" And then to add to everything, Ulysses talks to Agamemnon and Agamemnon is all, "Keep a bunch of secrets from your wife." Want proof? Page 80, paragraph three. Then even worse, Agamemnon says, and I quote, "[do not tell people when you are bringing your ship to Ithaca, but steal a march upon them, for] there is no trusting women." Again. Page 80, paragraph three.
So anyways, on a different note, I'm sort of confused as to what the rest of the book is about at the moment. I mean, we're barely even halfway done with the book and we've already: Explained the whole Ithaca and suitor situation, had Telemachus go on his journey, tell Ulysses' tale, and got Ulysses home. What else is there to do? Ulysses beats up the suitors and the end. Or is it.....?
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Odyssey Books 5-7 Review
Okay, I really wanted to get this done tonight (I have a retreat all weekend) so thankfully these were almost the shortest chapters yet.
YESS!!! THANK GOODNESS!!!! IT'S MY MAN, ULYSSES!!! (Odysseus)
Sorry Telemachus, you rock too, but frankly I prefer Ulysses (Odysseus). It's just the way it has to be.
So, as you can see, the spotlight's back on ol' Ulysses (Odysseus). Minerva (Athena) goes to Olympus once again to persuade Jove (Zeus) to make Calypso let Ulysses (Odysseus) off her island. Jove (Zeus) agrees, and sends Mercury (Hermes) to Calypso's island. Calypso doesn't want to let her little mortal pet go, but she complies and sends Ulysses (Odysseus) away with a nice little raft with plenty of wine and food. Question: why does he bring wine? If Ulysses (you get the point) was going to be on float in the sea for a week or two (a sea that happes to be made of salt), they wouldn't it be more smart to send water? I dunno. Call me crazy.
But anyways, Neptune sees Ulysses from afar and is all, "Say what now?" and he sends this huge storm to send Ulysses adrift in the endless sea to the rest of his days. But, a sea-goddess Ino sees him and is all like, "That ain't nice," and she grants him this magical scarf to wear so that he doesn't drown. So Ulysses swims to this island with Minerva's help and meets this girl named Nausicaa who takes him to her father, Alcinous, who is king of the island. Alcinous is a nice guy and agrees to send him back to Ithaca.
I'm really excited to see my pal Ulysses, but this book is sort of repeating himself a lot. Minerva does something good for Ulysses or Telemachus, Neptune does something bad for them, and a kind ruler saves them or is nice to them. I guess what I'm really excited for is when Ulysses tells his whole story.
YESS!!! THANK GOODNESS!!!! IT'S MY MAN, ULYSSES!!! (Odysseus)
Sorry Telemachus, you rock too, but frankly I prefer Ulysses (Odysseus). It's just the way it has to be.
So, as you can see, the spotlight's back on ol' Ulysses (Odysseus). Minerva (Athena) goes to Olympus once again to persuade Jove (Zeus) to make Calypso let Ulysses (Odysseus) off her island. Jove (Zeus) agrees, and sends Mercury (Hermes) to Calypso's island. Calypso doesn't want to let her little mortal pet go, but she complies and sends Ulysses (Odysseus) away with a nice little raft with plenty of wine and food. Question: why does he bring wine? If Ulysses (you get the point) was going to be on float in the sea for a week or two (a sea that happes to be made of salt), they wouldn't it be more smart to send water? I dunno. Call me crazy.
But anyways, Neptune sees Ulysses from afar and is all, "Say what now?" and he sends this huge storm to send Ulysses adrift in the endless sea to the rest of his days. But, a sea-goddess Ino sees him and is all like, "That ain't nice," and she grants him this magical scarf to wear so that he doesn't drown. So Ulysses swims to this island with Minerva's help and meets this girl named Nausicaa who takes him to her father, Alcinous, who is king of the island. Alcinous is a nice guy and agrees to send him back to Ithaca.
I'm really excited to see my pal Ulysses, but this book is sort of repeating himself a lot. Minerva does something good for Ulysses or Telemachus, Neptune does something bad for them, and a kind ruler saves them or is nice to them. I guess what I'm really excited for is when Ulysses tells his whole story.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Odyssey Books 2-4 Review
This book's starting to pick up, isn't it? Basically, Telemachus sets out on this journey to ask Nestor and Menelaus if they knew anything about his father. Nestor tells Telemachus to talk to Menelaus because Ulysses (Odysseus) was on a completely different side of the journey home. Then there is this whole spiel about a big feast in Minerva (Athena)'s honor, and on page nineteen it describes in immaculate detail a cow being chopped up (paagraph four). So Telemachus and Co. (Nestor's son Pisistratus, although I just prefer to call him Telemachus' Co.) go to Menelaus' house a little ways away and Menelaus describes what's going on. He tells Telemachus that basically he learned that Ulysses (Odysseus) is stuck on an island with the goddess Calypso, as he was told after capturing the sea-god Proteus.
Meanwhile, the suitors back in little ol' Ithaca are beginning to wonder where Telemachus went. A lightbulb suddenly flashes on in their brains as they realize that Telemachus is going to find his big scary father and bring him back to Ithaca to kick the suitors out. Antious (the lead suitor guy) is all, "Why don't we just sink Telemachus' ship and then we won't have to worry about being booted out!" and all the other suitors are all, "Yay, that'd be fun!" But of course, like every stuck up person, they don't even notice little Medon the servant listening in on their conversation. Medon warns Penelope about what the suitors are planning, and Penelope is shocked, because she never leaves her room and didn't even know that Telemachus left. Not the most observant, if you ask me. Penelope prays to Minerva (Athena) and all the suitors leave to go find Telemachus. Why Penelope doesn't poke some holes and their ships the night before, I do not know. Minerva (Athena) appears in Penelope's dream and assures her that Telemachus will return home safely.
As you can tell, I am a little bored with this right now. Basically all that they've done so far is talk about geneology and sail. Yay. I'm hoping that this will pick up and we'll focus on Ulysses (Odysseus) more instead of little Telemachus. As you can see with my helpful parentheses, I'm still a little confused about the Roman names.
Meanwhile, the suitors back in little ol' Ithaca are beginning to wonder where Telemachus went. A lightbulb suddenly flashes on in their brains as they realize that Telemachus is going to find his big scary father and bring him back to Ithaca to kick the suitors out. Antious (the lead suitor guy) is all, "Why don't we just sink Telemachus' ship and then we won't have to worry about being booted out!" and all the other suitors are all, "Yay, that'd be fun!" But of course, like every stuck up person, they don't even notice little Medon the servant listening in on their conversation. Medon warns Penelope about what the suitors are planning, and Penelope is shocked, because she never leaves her room and didn't even know that Telemachus left. Not the most observant, if you ask me. Penelope prays to Minerva (Athena) and all the suitors leave to go find Telemachus. Why Penelope doesn't poke some holes and their ships the night before, I do not know. Minerva (Athena) appears in Penelope's dream and assures her that Telemachus will return home safely.
As you can tell, I am a little bored with this right now. Basically all that they've done so far is talk about geneology and sail. Yay. I'm hoping that this will pick up and we'll focus on Ulysses (Odysseus) more instead of little Telemachus. As you can see with my helpful parentheses, I'm still a little confused about the Roman names.
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