Fiction Every Bit as Appealing as Protose
Early in my fictional career as a literary writer, I established milestones that would build my confidence on my way to publishing success.
The first milestone: profoundly impact at least one person with …
Tag: moby dick
Dear Unpublished Guy:
I usually don’t respond to the pathetic pleas of a person who has made the misplaced presumption that they are a writer. As I indicated in my initial communication, your submission exceeded our gazette’s word count by …
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12.23.11 , In
Fiction Across the Multiverse, My Short Fiction Rejection Letters , by
Unpublished Guy
Schlafen Ahab and Other Fiction Characters
- Gerald Freund. Protagonist. Private detective solving a mystery in the town of Romulus, Michigan. German born, he is not on good terms with his father, due to his marriage to an imaginary Turkish woman.
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Continued from Writing on Deck – The Metafiction Myth – Pt1.
After taking her pills, she went to the coffee tap (nothing beats real coffee), but when she pushed the graphical button labeled POUR, the lovely, lovely java that …
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11.20.11 , In
Excerpts from my Novel in Progress, Fiction Across the Multiverse , by
Unpublished Guy
A room full of writers writing
Gerald entered the writing deck where many of the other guests were already busy developing his myth. Schlafen Ahab was not visible to the naked eye, but Holger Meins walked up and down and …
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11.18.11 , In
Excerpts from my Novel in Progress, Fiction Across the Multiverse , by
Unpublished Guy
Gerald, a cloned German terrorist, and a duck walked into a bar.
The Zombie that Lives within Us
The clone raised his hand. “Barmann, zwei bourbons, ‘neat’.”
The German and Gerald walked briskly side by side, circling the barroom and …
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11.05.11 , In
Excerpts from my Novel in Progress, Fiction Across the Multiverse , by
Unpublished Guy
A change of pace from catastrophic fiction to catastrophic Halloween costumes.
Yog-Sothoth Costume and other Costumes Heralding My Doom
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I’ve often undertaken an ambitious fiction project with multiple themes and layers of meaning, the next Moby Dick, that …
After the fiasco with the stampeding herd of chevrotains, Ishmael returned to his room at the Pequod.
Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship
The light flickered the way bad motel room lighting stereotypically does. Ishmael Barz pulled a slab …
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09.30.11 , In
Excerpts from my Novel in Progress , by
Unpublished Guy
Fiction writing style that features repetition and more repetition.
Tale of a Whale
The Chopsticks style was pioneered by Fred Schonell and popularized by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharpin of Dick and Jane fame. Its popularity peaked during the …
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09.26.11 , In
Xtreme Writing Styles , by
Unpublished Guy
The Writing Style of Moby Dick
Characterized by obsessively detailed descriptions on minutia that seem beside the point. The longest sustained work of fiction in this writing style is Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Violet got into her car, a baby
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08.10.11 , In
Xtreme Writing Styles , by
Unpublished Guy
