Allen Learst
Goodreads Author
Born
in Detroit, The United States
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
December 2010
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Dancing at the Gold Monkey
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2012
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4 editions
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Starting Rumors: America's Next Generation of Writers
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“Hey, we live each day, start each day, as if we had an endless number stretching out ahead of us. We don't, but that's how one has to face the day, right? I see an analogy with writing fiction: the story at hand probably won't come off well, and even if it does, it probably won’t get published, but if it does there won't be any payment for it - and even if there is, almost nobody will read it, and most who do won't understand or like it. But you go ahead and write the story. What choices do you have? There's always silence, but that won't do for me.” - Gordon Weaver (who is suddenly my hero, even though I don't know who he is).”
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The Creative Spark with Uvi Poznansky
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It's a pleasure meeting you here in Uvi's Corner! Let us make it a cosy, intimate place, a place where we can exchange ideas about the creative proces ...more

























I've been working on my novel called BONEFISH for about 10 years. The idea came to me in a kind of frenzy and I wrote a rough draft in about 15 weeks. And I do mean rough, but I kept at it because I thought there was a story there, I just had to find it. This particular piece of writing is now 71,000 words and lately it has been growing, mostly because I've decided (again) to take it out of first