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mallorys_cameraThe Decennium story does not work. I’m going to have to put it in a drawer. Come back to it.
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I’ve only ever had one ambition in my entire life, and that was to write fiction.
Though I am a good writer in several contexts – non-fiction investigative journalism type pieces, and (of course) memoir – I am not a particularly good fiction writer. And this just galls me.
Lucius Shepard once told me I should write all fictional first drafts in the first person, and then if I simply had to, transpose them into the third person in a subsequent draft. “Your first person is unbelievably strong, “ he said. “And your third person is –“
“Anemic?” I suggested.
“I was gonna say needs the narrative equivalent of Viagra,” he laughed. “You gotta keep it up! Ya gotta keep it hard and strong! But the metaphoric subtext is too hard to work into a coherent sentence.”
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In other news I did nothing yesterday as well. And enjoyed it. My work backload in consequence is simply staggering today, and I’m going to have to buckle down to it.
Also, I’m not sure the Meezer is going to survive that head injury. I can’t afford to blow a couple of hundred dollars on a vet, so I’ve been doctoring it at home w/A&D ointment, tuna fish, sour cream and efforts to keep her inside. That last works only as long as I keep petting her.
On the plus side Milo seems to have recovered completely!
I’ve only ever had one ambition in my entire life, and that was to write fiction.
Though I am a good writer in several contexts – non-fiction investigative journalism type pieces, and (of course) memoir – I am not a particularly good fiction writer. And this just galls me.
Lucius Shepard once told me I should write all fictional first drafts in the first person, and then if I simply had to, transpose them into the third person in a subsequent draft. “Your first person is unbelievably strong, “ he said. “And your third person is –“
“Anemic?” I suggested.
“I was gonna say needs the narrative equivalent of Viagra,” he laughed. “You gotta keep it up! Ya gotta keep it hard and strong! But the metaphoric subtext is too hard to work into a coherent sentence.”
In other news I did nothing yesterday as well. And enjoyed it. My work backload in consequence is simply staggering today, and I’m going to have to buckle down to it.
Also, I’m not sure the Meezer is going to survive that head injury. I can’t afford to blow a couple of hundred dollars on a vet, so I’ve been doctoring it at home w/A&D ointment, tuna fish, sour cream and efforts to keep her inside. That last works only as long as I keep petting her.
On the plus side Milo seems to have recovered completely!
