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The Fictator: The Unscary Maybe
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Friday, March 6, 2015. It felt good to be doing the act of writing after what has been a vexed dry spell, but it was a mixed good: I wanted to be writing the wikibook instead, and this project is weird. I set out to write it for myself, but now I'm starting to look at it with a more critical exterior eye. In 2013, I read two books by Lynda Barry, One! And What It Is. Both wonderful, both recommended. I don't remember which one of them had her " Two Questions. Sort of yardstic...
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The Fictator: Let's Call It a Vacation for Now
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Let's Call It a Vacation for Now. In two weeks, a flash fiction piece of mine is slated to be published. If it goes forward as planned ( you never know. On that day I'll post a meditation on what I wrote. In the meantime, and potentially for a while after that post, there will be nothing. I hope to be back later in the year with enthusiastic and worthwhile things to say about writing. I read this. I don't want to bore you or myself. Labels: a fine whine.
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The Fictator: What Sticks
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Tuesday, March 3, 2015. One of the better movies I've seen in the past few years is Paprika. Which, if you liked the ideas in Inception. See Like watching the Zapruder film. Back.and to the left. Back.and to the left. That the whole book, for him, derived from the image of Caddy's muddy drawers, and the Compson brothers looking up at Caddy in the tree and seeing them. That was the image that made him write the book (or so he said. In The Chronology of Water. Lidia's future hu...
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The Fictator: From Me to You: Everything Means Nothing, or a Primer on Rejections
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Friday, October 3, 2014. From Me to You: Everything Means Nothing, or a Primer on Rejections. You're still not listening to Welcome to Night Vale, are you? The first pamphlet regarded looking up markets. To which to submit your work. Then I explained about little details. In the submission process, followed by cover letters. I ranted about bios and discussed the patience required in waiting for an answer. This week, a survival guide for rejections and acceptances. But don't r...
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The Fictator: How to Write Soporific Prose
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. How to Write Soporific Prose. Just incidentally one day during our To the Lighthouse. Unit, the professor mentioned that Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day. Ful, a thudding interminable Victorian thing. It's not that I didn't believe her when she said this (I gather that she's something of a Woolfian, so she'd know), but I wondered if " aawww. At the time, so I thought Night and Day. Turns out she was right. Night and Day. Is awful. Aawww.
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The Fictator: May 2015
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Today, the online arm of The Normal School. Is running a flash fiction piece of mine, "MicroDry." Hooray! I wrote this piece as an exercise for my workshop class last semester, and then I tinkered with it until it was send-out-able, and then The Normal School. Said "Yeah, we like that," and now I'm directing you to it here. Mostly, though, I was thinking of these two particular characters, and the odd trapezoid of space and time where they meet for 1,5...
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The Fictator: Pneumonia, or Something Like It
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Friday, July 10, 2015. Pneumonia, or Something Like It. This story starts in my adolescence, but we haven't got all day. It starts again during my college years, but there's nothing uncommon about that part of it. Waste of words. For our purposes, it really starts in March, which, as I told you before. Was a month flattened out and made pallid by inertia. Albrecht Durer, 1514. There were other things, too. Best of all, I wrote some prose yesterday. I hadn't written anythi...
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The Fictator: The Three Rs and Other Stories
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Three Rs and Other Stories. I'm really proud of the two posts I wrote after my blog break in February - the one about an old friend. And the one about how I misinterpreted Lynda Barry. 1) Reading. The past month has brought a slew of reading that I didn't really want to do and a good deal that I did. I slogged through a 1794 novel written by Mary Shelley's dad, which was just deadly. Was just dull, just obsolete, and the only thing it taught me in ...
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The Fictator: July 2015
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Three Rs and Other Stories. I'm really proud of the two posts I wrote after my blog break in February - the one about an old friend. And the one about how I misinterpreted Lynda Barry. 1) Reading. The past month has brought a slew of reading that I didn't really want to do and a good deal that I did. I slogged through a 1794 novel written by Mary Shelley's dad, which was just deadly. Was just dull, just obsolete, and the only thing it taught me in ...
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The Fictator: August 2015
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Welcome to the fictatorship. Friday, August 28, 2015. All You Have to Do Is Click Your Beak Together Three Times. This week I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull. It was a true phenomenon. When it came out in 1970, but I've talked to some friends about it and I'm quite surprised how few of them know the book. To me it's almost a culmination of the national attitudes in the air between 1965 and 1975, a Free to Be.You and Me. Nominally for grownups, but it seems to have vanished from cultural memory. Over the...
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