FINGERTIP BONES and BLOOD ON THE KEYPAD |
Hey, let's talk about this. I'm not interested in being prolific. To me the word is ugly. Any fascination I have with the numbers of art is the skeleton they make for getting things done... for gettin...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:18:00 GMT |
DONE |
Last night I wrapped my eigth book. This one worried me, the process anyway, because I started it in a fury, then ran out of juice, then came back to it very slowly, 5 pages a day for three or four da...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:41:00 GMT |
20,000 in 3 |
Well, there's nothing an explosion to cure a little lazy-writer syndrome. I went nuts the last three days, over 20,000 words, about a fifth of a novel in three days. Still got a way to go but I certai...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:44:00 GMT |
On top of this thing? |
Wow. I feel great. Wrote over 5000 words today which probably brings the total of this untitled thing to 68,000 or so. It's been a weird one, some of it freehand on yellow pads, some of it on white, s...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:40:00 GMT |
Halloween... what to watch?? |
It's a much more delicate thing than you might imagine, figuring out what to watch on Halloween. First things first, my suggestion is you watch nothing at all, that instead you carve pumpkins and hang...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:09:00 GMT |
First Practice in 8 Years |
Great day of playing today... Berko joined us... he played the guitar the whole time and we learned "Guilt is How I'm Built" (the hit)... "Show and Tell", "Raise the Bar" and (brum brum brum brum BAM!...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:30:00 GMT |
the Last Ten Minutes of SUSPIRIA |
I beg ya'... do it! Give it to me... anybody... please... somebody out there give me something, ANYTHING! as outstanding as the last ten minutes of Suspiria! My God! I've been looking for this feeling...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:49:00 GMT |
M.R. James |
Just polished off M.R. James Collected Ghost Stories which is (more or less) the four books he put out in his lifetime (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories, The Thin Ghost and Others, A ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:26:00 GMT |
stories... |
Amazing shit I've read recently:
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary M. R. JamesHitchcock/Truffault (Truffault's book-length interview with Hitchcock... you want your mind blown? Right... then read how thi...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:40:00 GMT |
Fatigue (I think...) |
Yikes... I've fallen off the Forward Motion Mobile for the first time since starting to write heavy and let me tell you... it feels nasty. Downright rotten. I've more or less crawled my way to page 22...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:10:00 GMT |
