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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: June 2009
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Monday, June 29, 2009. Joanna Hershon and Jewish Cowboys, This You've Got to Hear. I want to give a quick shout out to my friend Joanna Hershon, who just sent me her most recent novel, The German Bride. And asked Joanna who her dream cast would be. No matter the story, I like her choices. Natalie Portman as Eva? Sounds good to me. And The Outside of August. Sean a. scapellato. Sunday, June 28, 2009. By Nick ...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: June 2008
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Thursday, June 12, 2008. Finishing, Now the Down-side. I finished my book last week. I gave it to a trusted writer friend for honest feedback. I sent it to my agent. I wiped my hands, the brand-new engine freshly built and bolted. I let the hood whack shut in supreme pleasure at the sound, buffed the bumper till it shined. Does Dan Brown have this problem? Sean a. scapellato. Finishing, the Up-side. Hooked: ...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: Letter to a Writer Friend
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Friday, July 31, 2009. Letter to a Writer Friend. I'm through five chapters. And here are my impressions. They are lengthy, and I can’t help it. I’m a novelist. Share these thoughts with your other readers and see if they agree. In the end, these are suggestions only, and you can tell me to go take flying leap. It would be okay if you did. If he’s owned the land for a long time, I would imagine the gov...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Friday, July 2, 2010. Well, Edisto Beach has had my full attention the last two weeks. Beach reading at full tilt. The choices came a little haphazardly. I'd been lagging on getting to John Hart's latest book The Last Child. The five day road trip he took with Wallace back in 1996 when Infinite Jest. Was lighting up the book world. This took all of a day and a half to digest. And then I was on to the...My go...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: January 2009
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Sunday, January 4, 2009. Oh, no, I'm the friend who never writes. I'm the writer who's been staring out the window for a month. I'm the blogger who did two entries in December when he should've done something like what, thirty? But none of that's likely, is it? Let's chat soon. Handwritten is best. Sean a. scapellato. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sean a. scapellato. View my complete profile. Sellers, Heather&...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: The Look Over the Edge
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Saturday, May 22, 2010. The Look Over the Edge. I saw it in a West Wing epidsode actually. Butch and Sundance are looking over the ravine at what must be a 300-foot drop into the river. They have to jump because they people chasing them want to shoot them full of holes. Sundance tells Butch, "I can't swim." Sundance looks at him incredulous: "Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.". I'm beginning to...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: September 2008
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Thursday, September 25, 2008. Here It Is- the Perfect Morning. Up at six. Four and a half scoops of coffee, 8 mugs of water. Kids and wife off to school. Coffee takes a dash of milk- two percent- and a saccharine tablet (quarter grain) in the biggest mug not in the dishwasher. Take in a newspaper, the most recent Entertainment Weekly, then, it's settle to the desk. Sean a. scapellato. The Vietnamese girl run...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: July 2010
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Saturday, July 3, 2010. My Reading Life by Pat Conroy. Pat Conroy told me that he is on an unprecedented roll: there was much waited for novel South Broad in 2009. Now, he says he will publish a new book in 2010, and yet- in a feat that will blow the minds of anyone who knows his glacieristic production- ANOTHER book in 2011. For perspective, the last three novels took 23 years. Here is a great interview.
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: Letter To Another Writer Friend
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Letter To Another Writer Friend. Dear , (this is long, sorry). All right. Finished what you gave me, and I'm going to mail the mss back to you because I made quite a few notes in the margins for you. But on to my solicited opinions (and these are ALL opinions):. The indirect parables seem disingenuous to me after a while. With Duncan, I feel like Byrne never mourns his passing (at ...
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac: Great Workshop Yesterday
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Thoughts on writing from a Cul-de-Sac. What it's like trying to read and write fiction every day. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Superb group of folks yesterday at the Charleston County Public Library. I've been on a blogging hiatus for a while, primarily due to a small sidetrip I took down Law School Lane this past nine months. My goal is to keep from being the absent blogger and perhaps post some interesting material this summer. Got an interesting topic or question I can research for you? Making a Literary Life.
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