Ask the Author: Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III
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Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III
I'm writing a screenplay (whether anyone wants it or not). As a corollary to that answer, I can't write anything until it's determined I'm wasting my time or the thing's finished. How did it come up? Somebody on Facebook came up with something I thought so extraordinary I'd want to write a screenplay with her. She opted not to (no surprise!), so I was left finishing it myself. (This is real, "OLD SOUL," heavy kind of shit -- you'll only find out the reasons DECADES later -- but, for now, I'm seventeen pages into it, and not only not losing interest but writing with a newfound confidence I hadn't experienced before -- even in the 220+ pages of the three fiction books I've written and self-published thus far.)
Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III
Something bubbles up; some "hook," or branch or bent nail to hang the narrative on. If you proceed through life as though you're constantly building a worldview, you'll have things to express, it's just a question of where and when.
Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III
Read Pynchon's "V." Learn to write 1,000 words or less. Read, read, read, but across the grain from your other readings.
Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III
I don't worry about it; I keep my head full of ideas, and don't write when I don't have something ready yet.
That's it.
That's it.
Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III
You have a narrative spine to your thinking, and your life, and can measure how you take things, good or bad, in terms of how deep you want to go with your opinions.
No lie. Most people can't do this.
No lie. Most people can't do this.
Smiley McGrouchpants Jr. Esq. III
"Jane Err," a screenplay; "Icosadyadria," a series of tales about Portland, based on one-each-of-the-cards of the Major Arcana; various other things!
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