I love smelling a blog. I’m sitting in a writing workshop with my friends Ben, Seth, and Paige yesterday, and we’re talking about what we do when writing ideas come to mind. Immediately I smell a blog entry. I whip out my black Moleskine and search for the entry that would fortify my argument for [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
The Novel is a 10,000-Piece Puzzle of a Clear, Blue Sky
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
I wore a headset and microphone on the ride to work today. Since I can’t write all my novel ideas (Hamlet would say “Novel, indeed…”) in my pretentious Moleskine notebook, I hooked up a headset to my digital voice recorder and talked to myself for fifteen minutes and nine seconds. During my session I contemplated [...]
Fear of the Inaccessible
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
I’m juggling books right now; trying to decide between F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon. I am leaning toward the Chabon book more for the reason that I want to read his newest novel and have heard so many great things about this [...]