Dismantle My Bed

I understand the reasoning behind the Hollywood writers’ strike. Really I do. But was the strike beneficial? The biggest sticking point for writers was payment for shows that streamed on the internet. This was a fair point. They should be getting paid for all forms of media through which their work was airing.

The number I have seen though is $1200. $1200. It’s something, but it’s not much. And is it enough? Is it enough to make the strike worth it? A lot of money was lost by writers during the three months that the strike lasted. Many writers even lost their contracts. Shows that might have stayed on if they hadn’t endured a three month hiatus have been cancelled.

Basically, there was a lot of loss for, what seems to me, a little bit of gain. I can’t say, because I am not a part of that system, but did the strike really work?

Call it depressing. Call it apocalyptic. Call it completely off base, because 1984 has come and gone, and Big Brother hasn’t taken over quite yet.

I would even call George Orwell’s most widely regarded novel slow to get going and overly wordy in parts, and yet… I love the hell out of it.

Decades past the titular year, 1984 no longer seems terribly unlikely. In some of its doomsday scenarios, it is dead on, and, in others, the real life counterparts of those things so avidly warned against in the novel are close at hand. It no longer reads so much like science fiction or rhetoric, as possibility and forewarning.

As for the novel itself, once the novel picks up, which I believe comes at the beginning of Part Two, it becomes infinitely more readable. Until Julia comes into the picture, Winston is slightly hard to identify with, not surprising since he is living in a time and a world where humanity isn’t exactly acceptable. Once Winston becomes human, though, he remains as such, which makes the end all the more intense and heartbreaking.

Since the first time I read the novel in high school, I have never let go the agony of the fear and submission.

I sent some book boxes away with my mother when I moved. The real reason was to get them to the location at which I will be holding the ceremonial bonfire to shed them from my life. My mother took it upon herself to take a box with her, because, everyone knows, you can find people who read when you give the books away for free. The first person who got one of these books is one of my cousins. He is apparently excited to read it. Who knows, maybe I will get another wild and crazy, and completely useless review for this site.

I know. You can hardly wait.

I believe snow days are intended for the sole purpose of giving people like us a chance to catch up on the writing that we may have gotten behind on. On snow days, you have no prescheduled errands and appointements, no place to be. You don’t even have a safe way to get somewhere that it might enter your head to try to travel. Snow days are an excused absence from not just your job or your school, but from the hustle and bustle of your life. They are literally free time. That doesn’t come around often. When it does, jump all over it. And then don’t waste it not writing.

As previously mentioned it is important to decide what type of business structure you want when you are starting your publishing company.

When beginning a business, you must decide what form of business entity to establish. It is important because your form of business determines which income tax return form you have to file.

As previously mentioned, the most common forms of business are the sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and S corporation. You will find that a Limited Liability Company (LLC) is a relatively new business structure allowed by state statute. And not all states have LLCs as an option. Even rarer is the Limited Partnership (LP) structure.