Back on track
Posted on | August 25, 2005 | No Comments
I got some work done last night to compensate for my brain freeze yesterday morning. This Inhuman essay had been stumping me. I’d written about 1200 words of a 3000 word piece, but I didn’t feel like I’d decided what to say yet or how to approach the article. All I was doing was putting down words and paragraphs.
During the day I realized what the article was missing, did some research, copied and pasted some quotes and related information into a research document and tackled the article again. It’s far from finished, but I think I understand better what it is I intend to write. I’ve created a bunch of jigsaw puzzle pieces and now all that remains is to put them together in the right places. Before this revelation, I didn’t have the pieces or the picture, just intent, which isn’t enough to write something coherent. Not for me, anyway. Essays need a purpose, a hypothesis, a point, and I didn’t have one until yesterday…only words.
Here is Jonathan Carroll’s blog. I’ve enjoyed almost all of his books and look forward to Glass Soup, which should be out in the next five or six weeks. (The first chapter is available at his web site.) The blog–wow. He’s an observer and a reporter of the human condition. Little vignettes that pack a wallop. Take a few minutes and read his August entries. Most of them are brief, but potent.
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
