Today we’re linking to one of my favorite sites ever: the Poets & Writers collection of Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews. Have you ever read the Paris Review interviews? My friend Sasha Troyan (award-winning author of Angels in the Morning and The Forgotten Island) got me into those years ago. Wonderful stuff—interviews… Read more“Linking to the <em>P&W</em> Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews”
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Pulp Rag: Making your life work
They probably pitched it as one thing, and then they went with something else because, hey, nobody’s watching. —Craig Bartlett, on the phone I did something freaky yesterday: I called up someone I hadn’t talked to in thirty years. It was my old friend, Craig, who used to stay up… Read more“<em>Pulp Rag:</em> Making your life work”
Rejecting rejection
We were supposed to talk about rejection again yesterday. But I knew you didn’t want to. Who wants to talk about rejection? Right before Halloween? So instead I called up Craig Bartlett, Creator/Executive Producer of Nickelodeon’s Hey, Arnold!, author of the Hey, Arnold! children’s books, and now Creator/Executive Producer of… Read more“Rejecting rejection”
Pulp Rag: Marking the milestones of a life
A couple of weeks ago I finally read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. It turns out Angela didn’t have any ashes. Sadly, McCourt died earlier this summer. It was in the news. Only thirteen years earlier, Angela’s Ashes had rocketed out of nowhere as a memoir without a particularly focused… Read more“<em>Pulp Rag:</em> Marking the milestones of a life”
Blowing your mind in October
You’ll notice that today we’re blowing our minds with a certain amount of advice on screenwriting. Yes, screenwriting is a close enough cousin to fiction that the serious fiction writer can take enormous assistance from screenwriting advice, without the extra hassle of having to deal with Hollywood. Alexandra Sokoloff uses… Read more“Blowing your mind in October”
Linking to the Willesden Herald
No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put at just the right place. —Isaac Babel, “Guy de Maupassant” A convincing lie is, in its own way, a tiny, perfect narrative. —William Boyd, “A Short History of the Short Story” This week we’re linking to the… Read more“Linking to the Willesden Herald”
Pulp Rag: Inflicting cause-&-effect upon your reader with Henry James
“I went to confer a favour and you will go to ask one. If they are proud you will be on the right side.” —Henry James as Mrs. Prest, “The Aspern Papers” Henry James was a writer of the first order, with an understanding of character astonishing in its depth,… Read more“<em>Pulp Rag:</em> Inflicting cause-&-effect upon your reader with Henry James”
Pulp Rag: Crafting an impossible plot with Maria Dermout
“All of us, always, when we’re young, have to hold something for those who are old, and we drop it and want to get away, and draw a ship in the sand to reach a new country, and we always forget the ballast—there is no ballast but the earth of… Read more“<em>Pulp Rag:</em> Crafting an impossible plot with Maria Dermout”
Scanning far and wide
So far I have managed to spend almost the entire day wrestling fruitlessly with my website. Always a rewarding exercise. Today I’m going to highlight stuff off Twitter I wish I had time to engage in long, witty discussion about, like: Agent Jenny Bent‘s unexpected decision to hate sentence fragments…. Read more“Scanning far and wide”
Donald Maass Compilation & Workshop in Dallas
Jason Myers mentioned in the comments last Friday that he was hoping to get Donald Maass to Dallas, Texas, to teach a workshop. Donald Maass dropped by this morning to let us know that he is, in fact, scheduled to do a “Fire in Fiction” Workshop in Dallas next July… Read more“Donald Maass Compilation & Workshop in Dallas”