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About Unpublished Guy

In this particular universe, Unpublished Guy is a full-time marketing professional and zero-time writer. In the time he hasn’t been writing, he has published 0 novels. He hasn’t been published in The New Yorker or any literary publications or journals. …

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Fiction Panel Discusses Franz Kafka the Complete Stories

Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel (left to right): William Blake, Dr. Zaius, Mrs. Butterworth

Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel (left to right): William Blake, Dr. Zaius, Mrs. Butterworth

Each month, more or less, the Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel discusses a novel or short story. This week: Franz Kafka the Complete Short Stories.

William Blake:

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Description of a Struggle, Writing a Fiction Book Proposal


Three Sample Chapters. No more, no less. Three shall be the number,
and the number shall be three. Five is right out.

Being a submitter of unsolicited short story manuscripts that I could fold twice and fit in a #10 …

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The Metamorphosis Rewritten by a Happier, Second Millennium Franz Kafka

How might Franz Kafka, today, with access to psychoactive medications rewrite his best known short story, The Metamorphosis? It might start something like this if he had also developed an appreciation for theories of web usability.

As Jakob Nielsen awoke …

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Fictional Mouse Character Metamorphosis into Jakob Nielsen

Gerald Freund, fictional mouse
Gerald Freund, fictional mouse
Jakob Nielson, web usability guru.
Jakob Nielson, web usability guru.

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A Mouse’s View of the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka speaks personally to me. On some levels, I can relate to Gregor Samsa. First, Gregor Samsa is a fictional character, and I am a fictional character. We were both human and then we changed. …

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Review of Book Reviews of Three-Fifths of The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

I decided to try a novel approach to a book reviews, and write a review of the reviews of the book before I have completed reading the book. Why would I do that? Do a Google search on “book reviews …

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Plagiarism Is Obvious, Isn’t It

When Vladimir Nabokov was asked whether he had read Franz Kafka’s The Trial before writing Invitation to a Beheading, Nabokov insisted that he had not. Having read Invitation to a Beheading, the basic premise is so similar—a man awaits execution …

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