Categories Archives: The Writing Process

Done. But is it Literature?

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I feel like I’ve finally finished my novel, Banana Republican Blues. The aim was always to write a farce that would pass as Literature. I’ve been working on it intensively the past several months, cutting out lots of stuff, refining and tweeking other stuff, adding more character and plot development, some intellectual substance, a little Tom Robbins [...]

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Here is a paragraph I recently wrote into my novel. What say you all? Is it a darling that needs to be killed, or kept? In the darkest part of his heart he knew it would tell her nothing necessary and was, in short, the typical screed of a narcissistic VIP. It rationalized his own [...]

The Value of a Well Made Thing.

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One of the points I make in my book, Banana Republican Blues lies in following passage: Eddie spent his night in jail pondering his situation and composing his Doctrine of the One True Chili. The titular topic was a very small part of Eddie’s aggrieved philosophy. It repudiated everything he once held true, except for [...]

On Point of View

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Believing that limited choices foster creativity, I decided to tell my entire tale from single character’s point of view. Using the illeistic third, rather than first person narrative, he occasionally reveals himself in a journal he keeps in first person. This detaches the character from himself a little, which does create some distance from the [...]