See full size chart of a fiction publishing tragedy rendered through the metaphor of a tragic voyage.
" I clicked on an advert on Facebook and came to your site. And proceeded to read through your entries like the creeper I sometimes am. I think you should just publish your blog entries. You know how "the Princess Diaries" got adapted for a movie. Yours would be so much better. (And sorry to compare you to such a worthless book.) Anyways, just a thought. " Read more by Christine on To Publish a Sumerian Novel and other 2010 Resolutions
"Your Muse is clearly feeling passive-aggressive (what self-respecting Muse wouldn't, when forced to regurgitate Marketing copy for an enterprise software brochure?) - it's throwing things (like Spanish dictionaries) at you, hoping you'll notice and stop neglecting it or feeding it menudo. If you thought throwing it in the washer was a bad move, you really ought to read "Eradicating Edna," my unfinished NaNoNovel over on Scribd. Now THAT's Muse abuse!" Read more by Holly Jahangiri on Murdering My Creative Writing Muse with Seven Random Words from Dictionary
"No, I meant THIS BLOG is interesting. (In my previous comment I should have put a full stop after "hunter" and capitalised the "i" in "interesting".) I may be a shameless self-promoter but I would never preempt the opinion or judgement of my readers -- both of them! Nor ever presume to instruct or dictate what people ought to think or feel. So, let me try again: I find this blog, unpublished guy's blog, interesting (and useful re the writerly trade). (Of course I'm pleased you find Cosmic Rapture interesting. Thanks for stopping by.) MM" Read more by masterymistery on Xtreme Creative Writing Styles: Hyperminimalism
Nearly serious fiction related diversions for the casual or more active writer.
The Deviled Egg Eyes of the Publishing Abyss Gaze into My Soul http://www.flickr.com/photos/kasiaflickr/ / CC BY-ND 2.0
'Twas the season to be jolly a short while back.
Dr. Zaius received Charleton Heston, stuffed by the finest simian taxidermist. When wrapped, it was certainly the most oddly shaped gift
Xtreme Brain Activity. Xtreme temporal and spatial dislocations in creative nonfiction.
Vaporware fiction: a story that is promoted when it may never be written http://www.flickr.com/photos/vividp/ / CC BY 2.0
I completed most of a book proposal for a collection of short stories about Ambrose Bierce and Jerry O' Connell having adventures together chasing after Bierce's run away moustache. Many writers would begin by writing the story first and then writing a proposal to submit to publishers and agents. I, on the other hand with my background working for software companies, have done the reverse and created fiction vaporware.
Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel (left to right): William Blake, Dr. Zaius, Mrs. Butterworth
William Blake: Kafka, Kafka. burning bright. In the fiction of the night; What existential void. Could dissemble thy inexplicable asymmetry?
A random title for that next blockbuster novel or Pulitzer Prize short story:The Story of Quinton Plates
