Writing and Publishing Fiction

Hyperminimalism in the visual arts.

Corner Desk in Closet

The unpublished life requires lots of sacrifice, and cash can get tight. To make ends meet until I get published and can live off royalty checks, I am renting out a room in my house. See classified below.

Mule Anyone?
(If you had a Commodore 64 in the eighties, you know exactly what I am talking about.)

In software programming a self-recursive program is an error that can occur if a line of code refers to itself.

Ambrose Bierce, Main Character of Unpublished Guy's Fiction Book to Be

Here is the brief synopsis of the fiction book I intend to write this month.

In 1913 while traveling in Mexico to observe that country's developing revolution, Ambrose Bierce, satirist and author of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (mandatory reading for US high school students), disappeared with no explanation. What could have happened to Ambrose Bierce? For nearly century, it had been a mystery.

If I were to describe my writing style, I would probably classify it as speculative postmodern neo-minimalist metafiction. Followers of Unpublished Guy have already been treated to various samples of this enigmatic writing style if they followed my novel writing effort in July. Every good writer should challenge themselves and try different writing styles.

This is the impossible (because it’s not true) and redemptive story of Bob, a man who struggled for six years in isolation, secretly spent on his laptop with online writing and self-indulgence. It started when an older neighbor boy showed him online writing for the first time. It was fiction published in online journals and magazines. “I wish I could say it had no impact and went no farther,” Bob recounts, “but I can't. Like so many others, I was immediately hooked on online writing.”

In a previous post, I referred to a short story that I had written, apparently suffering from a case of cryptomnesia. I have now posted the short story to unpublishedguy.com as an open source fiction story. Any web site visitor can rewrite the story as they see fit or simply add comments for other more enterprising writers to follow.