The short fiction of j hardy carroll
It’s again respectable to write genre fiction. I think that this is one aspect of the demise (or at least rethinking) of Big Publishing that can be construed as positive. The whole idea of genre stemmed from the need to market to specialized segments, but I think it gave rise to unhealthy prejudice. “I don’t like…
It’s November, and all over the world writers have chained themselves to their desks, dining tables, library kiosks, Moleskine notebooks and whatever else with one common goal: to write crap. A lot of crap. Every writer worth a shit syas the same thing: first drafts are awful. You need to push through them, get whatever…
I remember a Michael Ondaatje reading where he was asked about his research (for Anil’s Ghost). He said he liked to immerse himself in a place or a time period and read all the papers and books from that era. Patrick O’Brian told of spending years at the Admiralty reading the logs and Gazette articles about…
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Whew. I knew there was a reason you hire people to do this. It’s almost impossible to edit your own work. There’s too much “love” involved. “Kill your darlings” is the tired old advice. The earliest known example comes from Arthur Quiller-Couch, who spread it in his widely reprinted 1913-1914 Cambridge lectures “On the Art of Writing.” In his…