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Benjamin Brindise
The second draft of my second novel, Ketchum.
Benjamin Brindise
Rather than trying to remember what I was reading four summers ago, I'll talk about what I just finished and am currently reading. After seeing Colson Whitehead talk at the BABEL reading series in Buffalo, NY, I picked up a copy of Zone One. It's an excellent book, cutting into the foundation of modern American life while couched in the aesthetics of a zombie novel.
After finishing, I went back to the last half of Black Leopard, Red Wolf. It's a sprawling fantasy novel by Marlon James whose characters I fell right back into despite spending some time away from. In the interim, I also knocked off The Setting Sun and School Girl by Osamu Dazai. I'm looking forward to catching up on some of the new King work. I enjoyed The Outsider, but fell off somewhere in the second story of If It Bleeds and never made it to the titular story of that book. We'll see if he's still got it!
After finishing, I went back to the last half of Black Leopard, Red Wolf. It's a sprawling fantasy novel by Marlon James whose characters I fell right back into despite spending some time away from. In the interim, I also knocked off The Setting Sun and School Girl by Osamu Dazai. I'm looking forward to catching up on some of the new King work. I enjoyed The Outsider, but fell off somewhere in the second story of If It Bleeds and never made it to the titular story of that book. We'll see if he's still got it!
Benjamin Brindise
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." - Stephen King. Why try to say something someone else already said better?
Benjamin Brindise
By setting a schedule. To paraphrase a quote I can no longer attribute, "I find inspiration comes when I'm prepared for it."
Benjamin Brindise
I was driving late at night and saw a white pick up truck coming up to a red light I was stopped at. At no point from when the truck came up behind me to when it pulled away could I see the driver. That ambiguity combined with another idea and boom, Don't Fear the Reaper was born.
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