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Trevor Dodge's work has appeared in The Butter, Hobart, Golden Handcuffs Review, Gargoyle, Gobshite Quarterly, Golden Handcuffs Review, Notre Dame Review, Natural Bridge, Great Jones Street and many others. He is the author of three collections of short fiction, the most recent of which is He Always Still Tastes Like Dynamite. He lives and teaches in Portland, OR. ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Trevor Dodge Well, I've lived in Oregon Territory for all but 9 months of my existence on this planet, so this question pretty much answers itself.

Seriously, thoug…moreWell, I've lived in Oregon Territory for all but 9 months of my existence on this planet, so this question pretty much answers itself.

Seriously, though: first off, let's say that writer's block is something that is real. Because it is. For about 18 of the past 24 months, I've been largely incapacitated in my writing. It quite simply hasn't been happening at all, until about 6 months ago, when I had to don my editing hat and finalize the manuscript draft that ultimately became HE ALWAYS STILL TASTES LIKE DYNAMITE. Having a project deadline to turn in that draft dislodged a lot of things for me and my writing. And because I'd written all of the stories in the collection at least two years prior to having to finalize them into a collection, the editing process showed me my own interests and ideas in ways I simply couldn't have been able to capture if I was, say, starting out with an empty, blank page or screen.

In other words, I ended up dealing with writer's block by tossing aside my writer's hat and trading it for my editing one. Without the pressure to put down entirely new sentences and new paragraphs until something started to take shape, I found going back to previous work that I knew wasn't finished yet to be a way around that blockage. And soon enough, I was writing brand new stuff because things were flowing again.(less)

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Trevor Dodge My ex-wife W and I. The story we were trying to tell both ourselves and others in our couplehood (if that's even a word?) was quite truly the most sur…moreMy ex-wife W and I. The story we were trying to tell both ourselves and others in our couplehood (if that's even a word?) was quite truly the most surprising, interesting and complex weave of history, dream, and survival that I have ever known. I mean this quite seriously, too. I'm not being glib. As a species, I believe the closest partnerships human beings have with one another constantly present and re-present the fictions that are and aren't most important to us. My last two collection of short stories were primarily about these things, quite possibly even *only* about these things, and the recursive relationship between my creative and family life is one that is always giving me something new to write about.(less)

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	Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing by Lance Olsen, Trevor Dodge (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.03 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Much: Tales of Excess by Chuck Howe (Goodreads Author), Meg Tuite (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael Gillan Maxwell (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirty: Dirty by Greg Bachar, Elizabeth Burns, Jennifer Calkins (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Laws of Average 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyone I Know Lives on Roads 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	He Always Still Tastes Like Dynamite 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clackamas Literary Review Volume XIX by Trevor Dodge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicole Rosevear (Editor), Matthew Warren (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fiction International 36: Ecstasy by Harold Jaffe (Editor), R.M. Berry, Trevor Dodge (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clackamas Literary Review XX by Matt Warren (Editor), Trevor Dodge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicole Rosevear (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Laws of Average by Trevor Dodge eBook by Trevor Dodge (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You will leverage everything. And in doing so you will lose everything, and in doing so you will also win everything. This will be the most exhilarating time of your life and it will also be the darkest. You will know beyond the shadow of doubt what possibility really is; you will wonder about things you don't want to wonder about; you will find you are largely alone and powerless; you will find you were never completely alone at all.”
― Trevor Dodge, The Laws of Average

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“It will happen instantly, by the way, when you see the years on her and reach for her hand anyway, in a kinetic moment that preludes any rationality whatsoever. You will be afraid of how she interprets this, and you will worry, and the two of you will talk through it, and there will be more moments that defy rationality, more moments than you can imagine, moments that build an entire castle upon an entire world that precludes the very act of thinking.”
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“You will learn about the twinned natures of fate and faith, at times spun together in threads fine as cotton candy, that taste just as sweet and evaporate just as quick. It is not right to say that you will have her, because you cannot truly possess another person. Nor should you even want such a thing.”
― Trevor Dodge, The Laws of Average