October 1st, 2009 / 11:46 am
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Lick Your Finger and Stick it in The Outlet

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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?

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10 Comments

  1. reynard seifert

      that picture is incredible

  2. reynard seifert

      that picture is incredible

  3. mimi

      In order of who I’d wanna/be willing to “do”:
      Roger
      Morgan
      Barbra
      Pete

  4. mimi

      In order of who I’d wanna/be willing to “do”:
      Roger
      Morgan
      Barbra
      Pete

  5. reynard seifert

      i would definitely go for morgan first, but i guess i agree with the rest of that order.

  6. reynard seifert

      i would definitely go for morgan first, but i guess i agree with the rest of that order.

  7. mimi

      Watch Woodstock (well, the The Who segment) and then decide “who’s on top” (of the list….)

  8. mimi

      Watch Woodstock (well, the The Who segment) and then decide “who’s on top” (of the list….)

  9. mimi

      Oh yeah, and I would tell Roger that it’s okay to get sweaty but leave the hair gel at home.

  10. mimi

      Oh yeah, and I would tell Roger that it’s okay to get sweaty but leave the hair gel at home.