Archive for September, 2010
It’s rare, because normally I’m pretty bulletproof about that one aspect of my life. Doubt doesn’t usually enter into the equation. But last week’s loss of the TV pilot coupled with the still-no-news-on-the-novel front is, I think, startling my once stalwart confidence. Once, my confidence was a hulking bear, and now it’s a knock-kneed fawn who spooks with every cracking branch or orbiting moth.
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My technique for writing women is the same as my technique for writing men: I look at all the people in my life, and I try to capture pieces of those individuals — usually different individuals, with different swatches coming together to make a new quilt, a composite character who is not the sum total of one person I know, but rather, the sum total of many people and their various characteristics.
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What I want to see more of are thoughtful looks at film, video games, books, whatever — critics that talk about what that piece of art and pop culture means to her and then attempt to connect it to something beyond the critic herself.
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Okay. You asked for it. I’ll tell you how to be a writer. The caveat: I’m probably wrong, and you really shouldn’t listen to me. Everybody I know who is a successful writer dug their own tunnel, then demoed the motherfucker after they belly-crawled through. Boom. Every writer’s path is as intricate and unique as a snowflake, as a fingerprint, as my finely-sculpted rock-hard flesh-scallop abs.
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Now, your turn. Intro yourself. Who are you, and how did you find this place? Lurkers, delurk, please. But old hands around the site are also free to join in on the re-introductions, especially if you wanna, say, link to something cool of yours. Plus: two bonus questions for extra bonus points! (Warning: No such bonus points exist)
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