Before I get started I'll say that I've been Having a real hard time these past weeks concentrating on my novels. A, because I'm going through personal issues that need to fade down a bit before I can devote myself and my mind to finishing up my books, and B, because I'm preparing to set off for… Continue reading More Adventures In American Writing, Issue 1
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Visions of Michigan, a new word book for a society full of humans
Visions of Michigan, a new word book for a society full of humans.
Bullets (and then, bed…)
Always start a new part of your life with an old song that just darts through your head for no reason at all, and in that, you'll make a new reason. Uh? Turning a novel into a novella is as difficult as it is explaining what the difference between the two are, and both are fucking ridiculous social divisions that make me want… Continue reading Bullets (and then, bed…)
When you can’t create, you work.
I wasn't sure what do with this book, fiction, that I had a manuscript of (which I'm still thinking if I should change) called Visions of Michigan, because it's very real and more critical than Adventures of a Dying Young Man, and in that story the writing style is much different and almost makes the main protagonist of both books almost into a cartoon. I wasn't sure… Continue reading When you can’t create, you work.
Just Thoughts about writing, taken from other people, either dead-alive-or-other
The Paris Review blog is a great site to read interviews conducted with mostly dead, some alive, writers. Here is a short paragraphed exchange between Maurice Sendak and his editor. "The great Russians and Melville and Balzac etc. wrote in another time, in leisure, to be read in leisure. I know what you mean about those long detailed rich novels—my… Continue reading Just Thoughts about writing, taken from other people, either dead-alive-or-other
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