Well worth the time to read it- http://htmlgiant.com/craft-notes/the-higgs-jameson-experimental-fiction-debate-part-1/ The most interesting part, to me, is when they argue whether or not cut-ups could still be considered experimental these days. It’s an interesting thought- esp. since how old the technique is and how some works based on cut-ups are part of the literary canon now. Also? … Continue reading »

One of my currently literary faves talks about great stuff here- http://www.themillions.com/2012/01/lethal-language-ben-marcus-urges-writers-to-march-on-the-enemy.html

So, I found something I’d thought I’d lost ages ago between three moves: The Beat Generation cd’s. I used to love these things, back in those mad days when I was a teeanger/early twenty something. And it’s interesting now, listening to these with the current OMG HIPSTERS thing trailing around the internet and the media landscape. The above title, … Continue reading »

[ they are talking small press and small publishing houses. Kindle self publishers please step back, and go froth in a cave elsewhere. thankyou] Anyway, I find this list interesting, and it makes me want to dissect it and write against it, using it as a way of destroying itself. Lit eating lit eating lit … Continue reading »

Anyone who’s even glanced at this blog knows I don’t like the Western concept of plot, and plotting, and the rising/falling action of Freytag’s Pyramid, or the simplistic Monomythic structure that has taken Hollywood blockbuster’s by storm. It’s a sad little raging of mine, since a lot of my stories do follow these plots. It’s ingrained … Continue reading »

In 2006 I’d set up a community blog, way back then, on a website I don’t own anymore. Sadly, I didn’t back it up. But we had great conversations, and we never ever talked once about the business. Of buying/selling/etc. It was passionate about writing/reading, and it contained philosophy and interesting back and forth. It … Continue reading »

And I’m so glad to find someone who writes like I write. You see, for the longest time I felt like a misfit. I never just sat down and wrote one thing. I would start and stop novels (some of them almost finished) over and over again for months, until one stuck and I finished … Continue reading »

I’m sick of talking about business. I’m sick of people in genre, or self-published authors, or what have you only going on and on about how to get X or how to make Y or money money money or “you need to write steampunk! urban fantasy! vampire sex! monkey romance!” or any of that. I’m … Continue reading »

Been thinking about Natural Born Killers. It was considered so edgy at the time, but even then I felt meh towards it. It was too forced into stylish excess, it didn’t have substance beyond the exploitative cinema heart beating at its core. The problem with NBK, as well as American Psycho (both book and movie) is that … Continue reading »