Share with us what you're currently writing, what you wanna write, or generally just raw ideas you've been sitting on and receive critique.
Share with us what you're currently writing, what you wanna write...
Chase Gutierrez
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Luis Phillips
I've been reading a lot of prose lately. I should clarify: I've been reading a lot of good prose lately, at least what I consider to be good. Gaddis, Mutis, Faulkner (mostly A,A and his short stories), Terra Nostra, the first 100 pages of Underworld, Didion, Speedboat, Onetti, recently Henry Green (Christ, how I managed to avoid reading him for so long is painful to think of, he's so good), mostly modern stuff. I'm trying to figure out a way to write a sentence with movement, with momentum, where forward movement is created by the combination of words and action is achieved at the grammatical level. Too many novels and short stories waste time, space and words by describing what something is, what colour it is, what it looks like; but not enough writers communicate "how" something is, how it moves or changes colour in different lighting or how it is and isn't, and how that affects character.
Robbe-Grillet excelled at writing novels where he would avoid the characters altogether and then somehow still manage to communicate an effective drama; Perec and Butor as well, though emotion and intention are always the sentence's shadow.
Does anyone know, understand? Can anyone point out any more examples of good "prose poetry" they've come across?
Caleb Ortiz
Also, Americans: Elkin and McEllroy, athough there are others. Perhaps it started with Whitman, but these guys get at it pretty well though maybe their idiom, their "style" doesn't suit my taste: there's something in wanting to create a new version of an existing product, never mind originality which is a pitfall and disease. There's the cue: to become what already is but different: or, to take up God's mantle and charge, and become that secret energy hidden away behind and above clouds and beneath the waves, always aloof and unconcerned but ever vigilant.
Chase James
I've had some creative block from fear of undertaking a big project at the moment as I've been trying to work on a novel so I'm trying to unblock it by working on a short story about a poacher in the style of Cynan Jones. It's coming along nicely. I recently found out that one of my stories from earlier this year is going to be in a print publication, which is reassuring as I'd had a bunch of rejections recently, I'd actually given up on waiting for a response from that particular publisher.
I'd rather not talk about the actual contents of the story because of that thing about telling people about it destroying the motivation to actually work on it.
Justin Davis
I wanna right about a boy: a boy and only a boy. The boy goes around kissing other boys. Although, he may kiss and flap his tits; this boy ain't no gay boy. What a boy, old boy, young boy, my boy? Boy has no age because the boy the boy the redundancy. Ahoy! Oh, boy. "Freud said to the boy, 'suck my Jewish cock, said the boy,'" said the boy.
Easton Phillips
I'm writing a paper about the evolution of Roman poetic conceptions of Egypt. It's pretty derivative and unsurprising.
Noah Bell
>It's pretty derivative and unsurprising
In regards to what? Please, enlighten me on your background materials and sources to this field of study.
Nicholas Baker
For some reason Veeky Forums thinks my bibliography is spam so I'll post it reformatted in a few hours I have an appointment to keep.
What I mean by it being derivative is that there has already been a lot written about the influences of poetry in forming the concept of Egypt and none of my research seems to have opened any interesting revelations. I am a history and finance double major and unfortunately I don't have a working knowledge of latin yet.
Joshua Edwards
I'm writing something for people who hate the bodies they were born in, and are viewed as repulsive and completely unlovable.
One of the protagonists, a nineteen-year-old tranny with a receeding hairline and strong beard genetics, falls in love with a thirty-year-old 5'6 bald man.
I'm afraid that I'm out of my depth here. I've never been in a relationship with someone I was physically unattracted/unattractive to. I just haven't dated anyone in the years since I became too unattractive to date.
What's it like? Does it even ever happen, or is there a barrier of self-loathing that makes both parties prefer loneliness? I feel it's more me being a NEET than me being ugly that's holding me back.
Sorry for the /r9k/ sounding post (I swear I never go there), but I think that I'm breaking new ground here.
Zachary Ward
Forza, thank you.