What are you writing?

slim jenkins

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
craner said:
Ha ha, I know...good luck with that! But you've got to give things a go, haven't you? Better to die heartbroken than bored.
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I know all about giving this lark a go....so many words in folders in draws. Don't let it break your heart - instead, revel in the fact that you're creating something.
You know all about the publishing game, I'm sure - millions of words on the 'slush pile'.
I no longer work at novels, but really wish you all the best. As Chesterton (I think) said: lower your standards and keep going (!).
 
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Lichen

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Getting the best result when you let your home means securing two things: the highest possible price and the best possible tenant.
 
Woebot

Woebot

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craner said:
Well, at the geriatric age of 32 I have started to write my own novel. It's started off as an unholy mix of Anthony Powell, Kingsley Amis, Jay McInerney, Joseph Heller, Evelyn Waugh and Morecai Richler: A Dance to the Music of Time, Lucky Jim, Brightness Falls, Good as Gold, Vile Bodies and Barney’s Version relocated to Coalition Think Tank land, a kind of neoconservative roman a clef. You lot will probably hate it, but I thought I’d write the book I want to read, and see if it’s any good. It's enormous fun to write at the moment, but it's sure to turn into something entriely different by the time I get to page 200 or draft 3 or whatever.
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well it sounds thoroughly readable oliver. which is more than i can say etc.
 
slim jenkins

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
In case you need help...


I believe the Teach Yourself publishers are about to put out Teach Yourself How To Write Anti-Linear Narrative Post-Modernist Texts In Defiance Of Bourgeois Literary Rules. Look forward to that.
 
luka

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craners the only person i know that i think is capable of writing a satisfactory novel. i hope he finishes it. i have doubts about the firmness of his resolve.
 
craner

craner

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Well, I think I'm going to start with some short stories first, rather than bite off a big one straight away. Sean Shapiro went right for the Opus, and he's been at it for as long as I've known him, which is 9 years. I'm not that patient; also, I have no Opus to waste 9 years composing. I might rip off Maupassant as a template and take it from there. This is all high strategy, Luke.
 
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grizzleb

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Well good luck with the creative process craner - I wish I had some advice to give. Have fun wid dat bitch.
 
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bobbin

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craner said:
Thank you.

Incidentally, what journals publish short fiction (and what are they like)?
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Granta is certainly not exclusively fiction (just 'new writing') but they do publish fiction. Not read it much but it seems to be good and well respected.
 
swears

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"If I was a Bear"

If I was a bear I don't think my life would change that much. I would still drink Erdinger. Bears can drink alcohol, they just don't have any money. I could get money by doing my job like now, I'd need a special keyboard, though. People in my office would be confused but I think they'd get used to it, that's discrimination otherwise, right? Not sure if I'd like to just walk around naked, even though I guess most bears do. I'd have to order an XXXL hoodie online from a fat guy website, but that's OK. I could still have a girlfriend. I'd wear sunglasses, a baseball cap and a gold chain, then she'd just think I was a big hairy "party bro". Girls like that, right? I'd be all like "Don't be scared, I'm just a bear, relaxing, drinking an Erdinger in Weatherspoons with his human girlfriend, wearing Raybans and enjoying the Tex-Mex platter."

I think bears have it alright, y'know.
 
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