Tag: postmodern

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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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 …

Interspecies Fuckland

(editors note: Grade F Fiction. NSFHC due to gratuitous F-bombing and allusions to sexual misconduct) Oh, fuck it.
In Interspecies Fuckland, a lot of fucking is going on.  Romulans and Vulcans are intermingling to produce strange offspring with …

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An Unpublished Guy visitor made an insightful comment to a previous post about fiction writing. This individual, who has a blog of her own, observed that I used the writing equivalent of leftovers and recommended that I try …

The fourth of July and four days into July Novel Writing Month. Four days of staring at a blank page wondering what font I should be using to write my novel. I settled on Verdana. I prefer sans serif, but …

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 …

Some novels are rumored to be too dense, arcane, or pretentious to be read in their entirety. Those sorts of novels are my specialty, and I have been emboldened to complete five such novels from beginning to end.

100 Years …

The Italo Calvino novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler, opened me up to a completely different type of story-telling. First, the story is written in the second person point of view. You know the second person, that point …