Emily Fridlund, Miriam Gershow, Rita Bullwinkel, Lauren Groff, David Foster Wallace, Aimee Bender, Ben Shattuck + some more "show your work" novel drafting...
Really enjoying this melange of reading, writing, reflection, etc. The day before yesterday I read a page from a travelogue, the writer is taking a bus to village and talking to the driver, and the driver told the writer a story that summoned an abandoned short story I'd conceived after a night in a strange hotel outside of a Germany five years ago. What kind of witchery is that? I have to believe it doesn't happen without the kind of constant surfacing of story that you're engaged in right now.
That's so much of it, isn't it? Filling and surrounding yourself with these things that delight and also inspire, and it all kinda can't help but to become a bit of witchery now and then!
I'm enjoying your new year / new start energy and the mix of sharing your work, background, and reading reviews! I'm reading How I Became One of the Invisible by David Rattray and this post and your interview reminded me of that.
Thanks! I keep saying, I don't know if any of this is actually interesting to anyone, lol, but it's been fun so far spending a couple hours on Fridays reflecting back on the week.
I don't know How I Became One of the Invisible by David Rattray at all, but sounds interesting! Looks like I can get a PDF from umich library!
I read The Wind last year—amazing
Headshot is going to win all the awards.
Really enjoying this melange of reading, writing, reflection, etc. The day before yesterday I read a page from a travelogue, the writer is taking a bus to village and talking to the driver, and the driver told the writer a story that summoned an abandoned short story I'd conceived after a night in a strange hotel outside of a Germany five years ago. What kind of witchery is that? I have to believe it doesn't happen without the kind of constant surfacing of story that you're engaged in right now.
That's so much of it, isn't it? Filling and surrounding yourself with these things that delight and also inspire, and it all kinda can't help but to become a bit of witchery now and then!
I'm enjoying your new year / new start energy and the mix of sharing your work, background, and reading reviews! I'm reading How I Became One of the Invisible by David Rattray and this post and your interview reminded me of that.
Thanks! I keep saying, I don't know if any of this is actually interesting to anyone, lol, but it's been fun so far spending a couple hours on Fridays reflecting back on the week.
I don't know How I Became One of the Invisible by David Rattray at all, but sounds interesting! Looks like I can get a PDF from umich library!
Picked up Headshot at the library a couple weeks ago—maybe I need to move it to the top of my pile.
I'm LOVING it! Move 'er up!