The Girl on the train

Hey guys,

First of all, a very Happy New Year to all of you.

I have been busy, firstly with the holidays. I somewhat took a tiny break from writing but still was doing some work for others.

I finally managed to complete my first book of BETA reading for someone. Will talk more about it once I have her permission to add it on to my "writing resume".

(P.s, I have just officially set up an instagram account, it's linked on the bottom right page of the blog - with the instagram logo! So do follow me if you have an account!)

Now I just finished reading "The Girl on the train" the day before and I caught the movie last night. I was insistent on reading the book first, cause you know what they say about movies being comparatively shitty as to the books so I did not want to take chances and bore myself out with the movie and throw the book away just in case the movie really did suck. You know, this is sort of contradictory, because the reason I got the book was because the movie was not out yet for me to watch at that time, so I went on a screw it hype and got the book instead :P

Anyhooooo,

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5/10 for the book

3/10 for the movie

I actually understand how saddening it is to give a book low rating, for the obvious reason that I myself am writing a book and it will suck if eventually someone doesn't like my story. But hey, we can't please everyone, and everyone has their preferred genres.

The reason I'm giving it a low review is because of the disappointing outcome while reading and watching whilst both the book and the movie were given such a big hype by the media etc. If it were to be such a big deal, it should have met the standard of Gone Girl (the book and not the movie). The flow of the book was simple and easy to comprehend which is a good thing especially for thrillers, too confusing and it sometimes pisses the reader off. Besides that, everything was pretty much normal. I think if the book wasn't so "Well known" and "promising" I would have given it a higher rating just because I would have flipped through the pages without any expectations. I think I figured out the ending by the time I got to almost half of the book, and I was right in the end, for some reason I was not surprised at all. I don't know if it's because of my "too much crime documentaries syndrome" or whether the book was really that predictable...

With that said, I think Paula Hawkins managed to make Rachel sound like a real alcoholic in her book, and Emily Blunt did a good job portraying that in the movie. The real star of both the book and the movie, was "Rachel", in my eyes.

Now back to the movie. I think I will cry for those who did not read the book. It was so messy and to be honest, lame. They should have put in some other stuff which were relevant and removed some parts which need not have had to be there. I was watching the movie with my husband, and half the time he was going "what the ****" is going on", and eventually he fell asleep. I on the other hand, did not give up on the movie because I felt invested in all the characters, that to, with me completing the book just the night before watching the movie, I was all hyped up and ready to go, kept giving the movie second, third, fourth chances, thinking it will get better every other minute. But it just did not.

After it ended, I just felt foolish for being excited for both the book and the movie -.-

Ok, with that out of the way. It's the first Friday of the year, as usual time is slipping through my fingers. I finally managed to set my timings up right. (Body clock) ever since I made the move here. Finally doing things right, like having a proper mental time table of what time to write, what time to read etc. I realize the more I do this, the more I feel that I don't have enough time :P.

I still get jammed up sometimes when I'm writing. I immediately stop and do something else, like read a book, or watch a documentary, whatever to distract my mind so I don't get frustrated with myself for not producing work or being productive. No point forcing when the flow is not coming. I think other writers should do the same too, sometimes being too focused on your "Word Count Goals" can be more of a harm than good. Just chill. You're supposed to be enjoying writing. If you're not, then you're doing something wrong. Figure it out on your own time, it's always the best when you get it right on your own.

Have a wonderful year everyone! Will write again soon.

Love,

Naia

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