October 1st, 2009 / 11:46 am
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Lick Your Finger and Stick it in The Outlet
The fine folks at Electric Literature have launched a blog. The first two posts at The Outlet are a chapter of Shya Scanlon’s Forecast and this short essay by Jim Shepard about writing non-fiction-based fiction.
The first worry writers have when they consider working with something like historical events has to do with the issue of authority: as in, where do I get off writing about that? Well, here’s the good and the bad news: where do you get off writing about anything? Where do you get off writing about someone of a different gender? A different person? Where do you get off writing about yourself, from twenty years ago?
Tags: electric literature, Jim Shepard, shya scanlon
that picture is incredible
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In order of who I’d wanna/be willing to “do”:
Roger
Morgan
Barbra
Pete
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October 1st, 2009 / 9:28 pmreynard seifert—
i would definitely go for morgan first, but i guess i agree with the rest of that order.
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October 2nd, 2009 / 3:09 ammimi—
Watch Woodstock (well, the The Who segment) and then decide “who’s on top” (of the list….)
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October 2nd, 2009 / 11:54 ammimi—
Oh yeah, and I would tell Roger that it’s okay to get sweaty but leave the hair gel at home.