For most of my adult life, and a lot of my youth, I've been a night owl. As a kid, I loved staying up on Friday and Saturday nights to catch Chiller Theater or The Ghoul. Then came "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" and "Midnight Special" and "Saturday Night Live." Later, my punk rock inclination and…
I'm still on my summer hiatus for a few more weeks, but wanted to follow up on an earlier post about why I've abandoned writing on a computer and returned to the typewriter. In that post, I noted the word processing program on your computer is itself an impediment to productivity. How so? Ease of…
The Writer and Pynchon's Concept of "Twinning" So, here I find myself arrived at that stage of life in which the passing of the sands through the hourglass has evolved beyond hoary metaphor into palpable reminder of my long sacrifice of calling to day job. I seem daily to grow more desperate and panicky over…
I seem to have always been drawn to fiction you might say is "out there." This seems to have had an influence on the way I write my own fiction. I can't point to any particular approach or technique I've adopted from the authors I admire (beyond the typically derivative affectations common to most beginning…
I've heard some writers complain (and I've been one of them) that after a day at work they find it almost impossible to write. In particular, I've heard writers like me--those who hold down day jobs as writers and editors--lament that after a day of writing or editing, the last thing they want to do…
Ed Desautels' Maximum Fiction 