Mady Evans
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Just trying to write to get better at writing
Stories (11/0)
The After
There is calm before the storm as well as after. In a time when all I want to do, we want to do is go outside, it’s not easy during a thunderstorm. It is almost a cruel joke to have a storm in Texas during a quarantine when every other year the state would be in a drought. The one time Texans don’t wish for rain we get it. Hours stretch longer, and mood drops even further into a grey abyss than before; but when the storm is over, I can’t help but want another one if it means the sky takes on a face like it did in the picture. From inside my house, the windows filled with orange light that seemed to beckon an audience to see the aftermath of the chaos that was raining down upon our home not thirty minutes earlier.
By Mady Evans4 years ago in Motivation
Where To Find Your Book
As a bookseller in a major chain bookstore, I have noticed that people, even book lovers don’t understand what I mean when I mention the different sections and categories that books can fall under and what that entails. So I have put together a cheat sheet based on my knowledge as a bookseller in said bookstore chain. Obviously every bookstore chooses to categorize books to their liking and even still the books could be in different places than what the author and publishers thought the book should belong. Take this information with a grain of salt because books are a fluid thing, and can be placed in many categories. I should also note that everyone is at a different level of reading as well have their own preferences to what books they want and like to read. Rarely are sections set in stone to match the age or reading level. So I hope this will help understand not only your local bookseller but yourself as a reader!
By Mady Evans4 years ago in Lifehack
The Power of Rain
For me and probably for a lot of people, the sound of rain is the most soothing sound to hear; from the roar of water hitting the ground to all the “pings,” “plops,” “thumps,” sounds that drops of rain can make on their decent. The sounds of rain have become so treasured that recordings of the rain have been made to meet the market of rain loving souls. There is a calm peace to the sound of rain. Maybe it’s human instinct that is found of the sound of what our lives have revolved and still revolve around. Rain, the bringer of fresh water, magic to plants and humans around the world. And there is a magic to this weather pattern. It gives relief to the dry, the thirsty, the dirty. Rain leaves the world refreshed if only for a moment. Water reflects of surfaces, catching light and releasing it. Rain is enjoyed during and after it has fallen, whether in puddles to be splashed or water droplets waiting to be caught. Something so amazing and magical can hardly ever be recreated. So, at best the emotions behind it, that it carries, that it leaves behind, can be captured and made into something. And that something I have found in a song.
By Mady Evans4 years ago in Beat
Reading 'A Little Life'
At 12:56 in the morning of November 24, 2018 I finished a book titled A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. This book recommended by a YouTuber that had read it a few years prior, in no way led me to believe it would take me so long to finish reading it let alone be affected by it in such a profound way. The story that centers around a group of friends and their lives that can be said revolve around one Jude Saint-Francis. This book was a big undertaking for me with its eight hindered word plus story. A part of me knew going into this book that I would most defiantly not finish it and move on to a more fantastical book than the world weary book that hits closer to home of some of my own demons then I thought possible.
By Mady Evans5 years ago in Geeks
Ravenclaw or Pukwudgies
During the release of each Harry Potter book, and the years after, readers all around the world believed that there were only three wizarding schools in existence, and they were all in Europe: Durmstrang, Beauxbatons, and Hogwarts. All that really mattered was Hogwarts. Of course knowing the inner workings of the school for the most part helps with its popularity; readers will know the types of classes, teachers, layout of the grounds, how to get into Hogwarts, and most importantly how to be sorted into one of four houses.
By Mady Evans5 years ago in Geeks
When Do You Stop Reading Children's Books?
I didn’t get invested in reading until the seventh grade; I was about 13. Already considered a teen, my reading level in general should be fairly high. I remember the class assigned book was The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, so like reading or not, by the seventh grade you needed to be able to read well and of a caliber befitting of being in the seventh grade. But like I said I didn’t get invested in reading until then. I didn’t read for fun, at book fairs I got superficial books, and if I did read it was the same book over and over again, unwilling to open my world to others.
By Mady Evans5 years ago in Geeks
Podcasts
Not everybody has enough time to pick up a book to read or watch something on television, so podcasts were created to grace the ears of millions, manifesting entertainment and storytelling into voices coming through speakers or headphones (mainly headphones, though).
By Mady Evans5 years ago in Geeks
Applying for Jobs After College
So you spend most of your high school career trying to sound fancy to get into college; writing essays, going on tours, keeping up grades, being the best sport player. When you find the right school you spend the summer before figuring out how you’re going to pay for it, so you get a summer job, committed to get a job during school as well. You study and you work and make friends, have memories to tell your kids, and the next thing you know you’re walking the stage with a diploma with a degree that you’re not even sure you want anymore. You want the degree, just not in the field that you want, probably.
By Mady Evans5 years ago in Journal
Light Novels
Light novels, novels that are light; done, end of definition, thanks for reading… Well not quite. The term “light novel” is used in Japan to loosely describe a subgroup of literature that can be compared, to what in the United States would call a “young adult” (YA) novel; each targeting an audience of young people in middle school and up. The light novels of Japan, however, differ from what is considered a typical YA novel or book that are found outside of Japan.
By Mady Evans5 years ago in Geeks
Midnight Kids
The magical moment when a book is opened for the first time by a reader is by far the greatest moment for not only a book lover but by the author. The moment a story begins is not when it is written by the author but when the reader takes the story as their own. A story for an author is a memory, a dream, an alternate reality that is written down for others to experience. Since the reader is not the original all powerful creator that is the author, the only way for the non-author to take place in the author’s world is by reading the world’s written form, a book. An author wouldn’t be an author if they did not want to share their world to others and the wonders that they personally see in it. It is imperative that the author does everything in their power to make their world a great experience to the reader as possible. Though, each author is different, and how they go about creating such experience and how much of it is given to any one book/story/world is up to them.
By Mady Evans5 years ago in Geeks