Category Archives: writing

The Roadkill Cure to Writer’s Block

Posted on August 11, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

“If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?” – Philip Guston, painter Before you go on a tangent today, criticizing your writing (as well as your personality, your life, and the dog with scruffy ears you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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On Writing Bad Fiction

Posted on July 11, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

I just wrote a  bad story. A 26-page disaster of a story, to be specific. Now that I’ve come to the end of it, now that it’s all been punched out—I’ve come to realize that the whole thing is one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I Sent Out 126 Rejection Letters Today

Posted on July 3, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Believe me, it wasn’t easy. I plowed through only one-and-a-half of three stacks of submissions, logging out short stories, essays, and poetry. As I worked, I read through cover letters, paged through submissions,and scanned through the editors’ comments, thinking: dang, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Hunter S. Thompson, American Legend

Posted on June 27, 2012 by writedrunkandeditsober

Last weekend while I was in Austin, I met Alan Rinzler, the man who published and worked with Hunter S. Thompson, Toni Morrison, Tom Robbins, and Bob Dylan, among others. He told me that Hunter S. Thompson was a crazy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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