Actually the first time I encountered with serious Writing Tools (and then, Literature) isn’t far from October 2007. That time I was doing researches for my biology paper in my class through internet. For my high school assignments, I did that everyday till I was bored (for all subjects: Chemistry, Arts, Biology, etc). Can you imagine you’re looking for that matter everyday? Eeerrr, besides, I thought that isn’t really functional to ask your students search too much about what they don’t really interest to. Because of that boring time, I was then entering many stupid keywords to search engine. Some is about suicide. I don’t remember the reason why.
But guess what? From that, I found a very interesting site, it’s named
Kemudian, and writings there are quite loveable. Well, let me make confessions, that time I didn’t know anything about using internet functions besides searching for school’s materials, I didn’t know even a little about friendster, weblogs, or how to make an account in Yahoo!, so that it happened.. I didn’t really understand about how to find a good way to be a member of that site, but for the first, I just made a hint for keywords, such like ‘hujan’, ‘bogor’, and ‘kesepian’ and I just saved all of their writings in flashdisc and read it home.
Then everyday, back from school, I did it. I did search for the site through while browsing for school’s material. I did save them, I did read at home. I did also write mine. Till I was eager myself to do more, I registered to the site. The first thing I realize, everybody there are very interesting. Most of them are from Jakarta. It sounds like a so far foreign land for me that time. Jakarta is a capital of Indonesia, mom of Indonesia, but Jakarta also an individual-megapolitan-place-or-more-stupider in my head. That time, my mindset was still like sounding: people there (in Jakarta) must be through hard life, people using internet there must be arrogant, beware. And… It’s quite funny to remember that since I found Jakarta isn’t that scary.
The time I joined, I found a senior writer,
Ayu Prameswary. I remember I ever asked her questions about basics to use that site, such like how to adding friends, commenting to friend’s posts, and even to posting my writings there. She was patiently answering one by one the questions. Till I posted my writings, for the first time I posted my diaries. Well, you can imagine it as diarrhea. It really was.
Then, I found people commented there on my writings or only sharing or greeting. Till, I met with my best friends there. Yeah, I did find bestfriends from the site. Without saying who’s them, I know they know they really meant to be in my life.
Well, month by month, it also became bored. I only wrote poems everyday, even though I made stories, I only made love stories, teenager one. Finding people wrote masterpiece, I then found my writings were sucks, love stories; love poems; without any morality points. Isn’t it clear? I also started my writings from the lowest part like everyone might do (not for saying I’ve made my best, it’s only for sharing: people can get better) till my writings now were becoming better. I can say it happened because I found user name
miss worm and
andrea there.
Andrea Hifran, taught me all she knew about writings. From a little theories like: don’t-tell-but-show, climax-anticlimax, the importance of research for a serious story, how to make outlines or good plots, she taught me well almost every little basic about writings I can’t type all here.
I don’t try to say my writings are becoming great because of that, but I’m proud to make my writings be better each time I write by the rules she gave me. I’m proud I always have a great efforts to study.
And since I’ve a huge interest to Literature, even till now I still I do self-studied many things about it. I love History and now I study Literature from its history. I read cultures and civilizations of human being from
here. Then I believe that language is very important to be mastered. For instance, when I want study more about British Literature which is, for me, much more interesting than American, I found that I’ve to know more about British difference accent from American, British difference culture, and many more.. and it required a good English language to. The other example, if I want to study about Japanese Literature which contained many classical and traditional stories and poems, I just realize that I really need to know their languages, their habits, cultures, more. From that on, I try applying
the list.
I think my Faculty provided a library with enough complete books about it. Or I should search to the central Library of University or from library of my city. I’m eager to. I’m willing to be fluently of speaking in many languages.
Beside that, I tried to differ my priority studying the languages from the native speaker and which are easier and faster to be learned (I believe it depends on my interesting). And it came to: English (since it’s not a second language in my country), French and Japanese (I learned it in my class for this whole year), German (I interested people’s here, and since my favorite country, Swiss, used it as the first language, I admitted it’s a need to study about it), and I will continue decide later after I’ve mastered at that four languages.
Take a look
here . Ummh, isn’t it great for studying all of that? I don’t know from where this interest to study much about Literature was coming, but I found myself really happy to learn and read writings. I found myself would cheering all day because of studying new subjects. Literature has been a new subject every single time since many writings come over everyday, every minute, every second, every breathe from the writers all over the world to the world wide website.
Literature would contain many things: from prose to poems, from essayist to lyricist, even Science Fiction which being one of popular prose themes also do great contributions to our daily’s life.
We would know how people in England lived, how cold snow is without ever being go to a winter’s season country, how African race have arguments with white man for along time ago. We could read interesting and important people diaries like Anne Frank’s and Hitler’s and Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s or maybe stories about valuable things in life.
And let me tell you about how complex literature is, from what my self-studied along these two months, I found that Literature has its great numerable themes. From its small branches:
Literature → Prose, Essay, Drama, Poems
All of we know that easy to define which is prose, essay, drama, or poem. And from studying Literature it’d be not only that easy, it’s also really enjoyable to know the history of, many kind and themes of prose; essay; drama; poems, why people enjoy read one theme to another, and how exactly Subjects such like Philosophy, Psychology, and other Humanism Subjects till Chemistry, Physics, and other Natural Sciences Subjects do owned to Literature. By literate, we to love our literature do save for human being. We save history, we save past which build future.
I’d also love to share any other branches (I got it from
here, anyway):
Prose →
from its morph:
1. Ultra Short Story
2. Flash Fiction
3. Short Story
4. Novella/Novelette
5. Comic Novel
6. Novel
from its content:
1. Absurdist fiction
2. Adventure novel
3. Comic novel
4. Crime fiction ; Detective fiction
5. Experimental literature
6. Fantasy ; Bangsian fantasy, Comic fantasy, Contemporary fantasy, Urban fantasy, Fairytale fantasy, Heroic fantasy, High fantasy, Historical fantasy, Celtic fantasy, Steampunk, Wuxia, Medieval fantasy, Prehistoric fantasy, Juvenile fantasy, Low fantasy, Fantasy of manners, Mythic fiction, Romantic fantasy, Science fantasy, Planetary romance, Sword and Planet, Superhero fantasy, Sword and sorcery
7. Gawęda
8. Gothic fiction; Southern Gothic
9. Historical fiction; Holocaust novel
10. Horror; Splatterpunk
11. Medical novel
12. Microfiction; 55 Fiction; Drabble; Nanofiction
13. Metafiction
14. Musical fiction
15. Mystery fiction
16. Philosophical novel
17. Political fiction
18. Quest
19. Religious fiction; Christian novel
20. Romance novel; Historical romance; Paranormal romance
21. Saga, Family Saga
22. Satire
23. Slave narrative
24. Speculative fiction; Alternative history; Science fiction; Cyberpunk; Nanopunk; Soft science fiction; Hard science fiction; Weird fiction
25. Sports fiction
26. Surrealist novel
27. Thriller; Conspiracy fiction; Legal thriller; Psychological thriller; Spy fiction/Political thriller; Medical thriller
28. Tragedy; Tragicomedy
29. Urban fiction
30. Westerns
Essay → Academic essays, Descriptive, Narrative, Exemplification, Comparison and contrast, Cause and effect, Classification and division, Definition, Dialectic, Other logical structures (The logical progression and organisational structure of an essay can take many forms)
Drama → Tragedy, Comedy, and combination of that both.
Poems → Universal Themes
I don’t know, but I’m interested to read and write all of that kind of Literature Themes above. I even made schedules to learn that one by one every single day. Maybe I’ll write here later for each of that in formatting like learning together, what people named it? Yeah, like a tutorial, tutoring myself to write in many forms of writings.
Hey, yeah, well I think, from the middle of this post, it sounded like I’m trying to persuade people to love Literature. But it’s really interesting for me to share about it, about how I love to write and write, to read and read, have my post to be commented and took criticism from readers. I do. Don’t you?
October 10th, 2009
12:21:58 WIB
