Have you seen this Milos Formon Movie, Taking off?
This is a clip from it.
I’m taking off too. For my first AWP, the launch of my first book, my first reading.
See you there. And watch the whole movie. I worked for a while as a blurb writer for a cable station. I had to write up classic movies. Had to think of a million different words for ‘hilarious’ and a million for ‘heartbreaking.’ This is a two million word movie.
Halfway through. The end is about two chapters away. Ready to rewrite by the time I get back from NY. Not sure how much work I’ll get done there. Here’s what I wrote today. Come Halloween icicles hung from the fire escapes and the condemned notices on the halfway house were illegible beneath the dark…
I woke up late this morning. To bird song. And if you’ve ever woken up to birdsong in Australia, you know that it never fucking stops. It’s not like birdsong in America, which politely diminishes by mid-morning, and by noon is just a distant memory. No, over here, it’s a constant, euphoric shake rattle and…
Because Charlie Watts. And because it’s Friday, and I crushed, like six deadlines. And because it’s wine time. And because the bodies of those deadlines are a bridge back to the manuscript. What a beautiful buzz to be out of that rut.
My review of Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories is over at LitReactor. Neat collection, lots of stories and images that linger. Couldn’t really name a favorite, because of the breadth of styles and subject matter, loosely connected around the idea of naked souls bared to elements not always of this world, but I have to say…
Tobias Carroll, Volume 1 Brooklyn founder, talked to some of us about weird stuff at Lit Hub.
Weird horror instilsl a kind of terror in the reader, but the kind of terror where the fever dream is not so much to defeat It, as to see It, touch It. Make It stick. Because without It, what are we?
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