July 2011
7 posts
Overhearing snippets of conversation between strangers that seem like they should exist only in fiction is like a sporadic, surprise Christmas to a writer.
“Hey, I have a question. You know when you see someone in a dress and you’re like, ‘That dress was made for them?’”
“Yeah, I do.”
“Well, when you walked in I thought to myself, She just looks...
Four Parts; Part Four
This weekend, I got my voice back.
Funny how the simple ritual of perching oneself on a barstool in a Brooklyn cafe (Laptopistan, if you will) and opening a document can mean so much. In short: I’ve not only started a totally fresh round of revisions—approaching, let alone working on the manuscript for the first time in months—but I see the story, the book, the characters, the...
“So, why aren’t books dead yet? It helps that e-books are booming…But that...”
– Bill Keller, “Let’s Ban Books, or at Least Stop Writing Them,” New York Times, July 13, 2011
“And if you don’t know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away...”
– Your Voice in My Head: A Memoir by Emma Forrest
On Your Mark
After a weekend of ingesting so much aspartame that I can feel my insides glowing (such is the case for a non-drinker during a holiday), my half-awake self Tweeted the following at ridiculous a.m.:
@meredithturits: July goal: Because productivity > cancer, for every diet soda I drink, I owe 200 words of prose. (Related: Newest novel may be done by Aug.)
I’m not sure if this is the...