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Seventh Draft: Josh Bares Heart, Soul in Response to Seth's Callous Critique
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Sunday, June 29, 2008. Josh Bares Heart, Soul in Response to Seth's Callous Critique. Like a cartoon octopus at a singalong Disney barn raising, your post. Sub-nail 1A: Why can't I write a story? Why do I fear writing stories? Not necessarily because he tried something different, but because he tried something different and then allowed it to sit there, out of context. Nail 3: Fear of the mundane. This is very true, and I wonder if, again, I'm not just try...
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Seventh Draft: May 2010
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Thursday, May 13, 2010. The Saints, Sex, Hope, and a 20-sided Die. Abstain from masturbation and sex? I mean, how would someone with my impressive and hyperactive libido do that? We're artists, after all. We fuck anything that moves! It's in our contract! Well, not pick it up: that would be gross). Any other activity, - flossing, say or icon-painting. You brought (or rather conjured: check out those salty eye rings! Rereading and rethinking 2666. These days, I...
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Seventh Draft: Seth Reads Josh's Novel and Responds in Shock
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Saturday, June 28, 2008. Seth Reads Josh's Novel and Responds in Shock. How long do you work on a sentence? In my recent story (not the one I sent you) I'd say I've given each sentence at least an hour's worth of thinking. Some of your sentences seem so carefully wrought; but then, in some places, I feel like you're drifting by on talent. It's obvious to me: you are much, much more talented than me. BUT: I think there is a but! Can it be fun? Your "novel" is n...
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Seventh Draft: April 2010
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Size Is Not an Option. The almost two year gap separating what I hope will be this post (and not just another styrofoam. Cup along the modest New English interstate of my "writing life") is, I have to admit, completely unfathomable. It's like a picture of a whale shark. Shout it in the dark with me. And yet here we are again, trying to figure out what happened and how the hell we got this way. What is it about that face? I feel more th...
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Seventh Draft: July 2008
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Friday, July 4, 2008. The Dark Boquet of Doubt. Marquez was once asked, "Does a blank piece of paper distress you as it does other writers? Yes," he answered, "It's the most distressing thing I know next to claustrophobia.". I agree with García. When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you," writes Nietzsche. This is the blank page: the abyss that looks into you. So I stand there, looking in, being looked in. I consider my options. Suddenly, you'...
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Seventh Draft: The Watery Parts of the World
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Saturday, June 5, 2010. The Watery Parts of the World. Your generous, starwalking last post reminded me of the great final third of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrook's (panoptical harmonium of German middle-class life - written when he was 26! In which the young scion of a prosperous German family wakes up one morning and decides that he doesn't want to get out of bed. So he says he's sick. Is he really sick? People feeling sorry for him! Above your inner springs.
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Seventh Draft: Dayjobs
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Saturday, June 12, 2010. When I was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes, during my honeymoon in Barcelona, I spent three days in the ER, hooked up to a tube of insulin the size of a bomb. It was called la bomba. My blood sugar was so. I was hooked to tubes and bombs. After three days, I was unhooked and transferred to a room with a slightly more comfortable bed. Hallelujah! Olympic coverage (this was the 2004 Games, in Athens). After eating, feeling finally. Deeply...
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Seventh Draft: Size Is Not an Option
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Skip to right sidebar. Skip to left sidebar. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Size Is Not an Option. The almost two year gap separating what I hope will be this post (and not just another styrofoam. Cup along the modest New English interstate of my "writing life") is, I have to admit, completely unfathomable. It's like a picture of a whale shark. Shout it in the dark with me. And yet here we are again, trying to figure out what happened and how the hell we got this way. What is it about that face? I feel more th...
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