Dreamed i ran into Gabriel Garcia Marquez at a garage sale. He was upset because he had a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude that he’d been wanting to give to Harlan Ellison, but hadn’t had the chance. I told him i’d take care of it.
But then when i called Ellison to arrange delivery, he remembered the one time that i’d interviewed him and we’d met, and insisted on coming to my house for the weekend.
He brought Timothy Findley with him, and the three of us talked writing and drank blackberry milkshakes all night.
2013-04-07
2012-10-11
“You Just Keep Pushing”
“It’s the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books. What does it mean? It means to me what Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.”
— Robert Hass
2012-08-29
Blog Tour 2012 — The Writing Trip
A Q&A at David L. Shutter’s Writing Trip talks process! Passion! Publishing! Prose vs. film! Other things, only some of which begin with P!
It would take a full frontal lobotomy or some manner of alien brain parasite for me to ever take on the services of an agent again, but that’s just one guy’s opinion. Like many writers, I think the advantages of indie author-publishing are pretty clear — but maybe better than some, I also understand how much work is involved in publishing properly…
It would take a full frontal lobotomy or some manner of alien brain parasite for me to ever take on the services of an agent again, but that’s just one guy’s opinion. Like many writers, I think the advantages of indie author-publishing are pretty clear — but maybe better than some, I also understand how much work is involved in publishing properly…
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2012-08-27
Blog Tour 2012 — Pure Textuality
The August/September Blog Tour continues at Pure Textuality, where Scott talks about the fine art of tricking your writer’s mind.
Being a dedicated editor involves a very different set of creative muscles than being a dedicated writer, and it’s certainly not the case that all writers need to be as good at editing as a dedicated editor. A lot of writers find editing about as exciting as warm yogurt, and if that’s the camp you’re in, that’s totally fine. Here’s the thing, though. The writer’s mind is really, really good about hiding the mistakes that the editor’s mind needs to catch…
Being a dedicated editor involves a very different set of creative muscles than being a dedicated writer, and it’s certainly not the case that all writers need to be as good at editing as a dedicated editor. A lot of writers find editing about as exciting as warm yogurt, and if that’s the camp you’re in, that’s totally fine. Here’s the thing, though. The writer’s mind is really, really good about hiding the mistakes that the editor’s mind needs to catch…
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2012-08-24
Blog Tour 2012 — Indie Book Blog
The Blog Tour stops in at the Indie Book Blog to talk philosophies of world building in fantasy and speculative fiction.
I like a starting point to my fiction that’s tied down firmly by rules. I like the idea of consistency in fantasy worlds. I like the idea that magic works the same way for everyone in a fantasy world, and thus should be theoretically accessible to everyone in some way — not just the exclusive province of a small number of extremely powerful background characters…
I like a starting point to my fiction that’s tied down firmly by rules. I like the idea of consistency in fantasy worlds. I like the idea that magic works the same way for everyone in a fantasy world, and thus should be theoretically accessible to everyone in some way — not just the exclusive province of a small number of extremely powerful background characters…
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