Craft of Fiction Writing
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Heroes Never Rust #81: Personal Taste, or Bad Craft?
Heroes Never Rust #81 by Sean Ironman Personal Taste, or Bad Craft? If it has been unclear in my last two posts, I’ll come right out and say it here—I dislike Nemesis. I think it represents everything wrong with comics in the last ten years. It’s a comic consisting of shock after shock. So many… Continue reading
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Episode 135: A Craft Discussion About James Wood’s How Fiction Works, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 135 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk about James Wood’s How Fiction Works with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Amy Penne writes about how David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster and Other Essays changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES On Tuesday,… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #73: Adjusting to the Story’s Needs
Heroes Never Rust #73 by Sean Ironman Adjusting to the Story’s Needs In a graduate-level fiction workshop a couple of years ago, a student used footnotes in a few places in a manuscript. The story was somewhere around fifteen pages, and footnotes were used three or four times, mostly toward the beginning of the piece.… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #72: Fattening the Story
Heroes Never Rust #72 by Sean Ironman Fattening the Story When I took Introduction to Creative Writing when I was an undergraduate in college, I was taught that everything in a story had to be there for a reason. I had to interrogate each word, and every one had to characterize and move the plot… Continue reading
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Episode 126: A Craft Discussion About Horace’s Ars Poetica, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 126 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk about Horace’s Ars Poetica with Vanessa Blakeslee, plus Sam Slaughter talks about the ignominious beginning of Two Drunken Writers Brewery. NOTES At 3 P.M., on Tuesday, November 18, the… Continue reading
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Episode 125: Kent Wascom!
Episode 125 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview the novelist Kent Wascom, Plus Ian Rogers writes about reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The music accompanying Ian Rogers’s Essay is The Lovely Moon‘s… Continue reading
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The Lists #2: Ten Rules for Revising Fiction by David Madden, and Reasons Why I Don’t Always Follow Them
The Lists #2 by Kevin Bray Ten Rules for Revising Fiction by David Madden (and Why I Don’t Always Follow Them) “Is your style overloaded with archaic or Latinate verbs?” Yes. They irradiate my paragraphs with evidence of my intellectual coruscation and I know editors reject me because they are jealous of my erudition. “Have… Continue reading
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Episode 119: A Craft Discussion About Douglas Glover, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 119 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk about Douglas Glover’s Attack of the Copula Spiders with Vanessa Blakeslee, plus Sam Slaughter writes about how Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES This episode featured music… Continue reading
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Episode 114: Maya Sloan!
Episode 114 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer and ghost writer extraordinaire, Maya Sloan. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about the Kerouac House here. Episode 114 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading
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