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.
Tag: prose
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
Getting Things Done
Let me say, I really just want to write, but well if you're me, a person that has to work triple as hard as most people do, well then, dang, you have to pull double duty on everything. I'm finally getting my writing goals in some kinda list and at least minimally organized. I'm working on a book right… Continue reading Getting Things Done
And so, keepin’ on with this constant passing, of Time
So shoot kid, yeah, well we're here alright. And passed record stores and coffee shops, man, just passed so many drug stores and dog stores, well yeah, I'm burnt man, just burnt, and all heck, and as nothing changes, I'm back at...IT, but really, nope, I never left. And what ya got to say boy, well huh,… Continue reading And so, keepin’ on with this constant passing, of Time
A Written Existence, Summer Notebook, Page 61
Two Multimedia Entires documenting my life as a young american writer. One Audio/One Video. (A) Audio: This is just a new idea (based on the old) I'm playing with. Some of my writing for a demo spoken word album. I've recorded spoken word in the past, but never with instrumentation behind my voice. These are a… Continue reading A Written Existence, Summer Notebook, Page 61