A week of no wind. We had been at sea for more than a month, fleeing the burning hull of Italy, or civil war and famine, hoping for new lives in Hither Spain. We were all refugees of one sort or another, and many of us were criminals. Not I; I was wealthy and would [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Fiction’
September 10, 2009
Albert Lea
When I was nineteen, after having dropped out of high school, I did some hitchhiking with a friend of mine. We hopped a few freight trains as well.
I’m thinking of pulling a story out of this. I don’t want to write about the entire experience (Kerouac has covered this ground before), and I don’t even [...]
March 5, 2009
Recursion
Last night I finished Gardner’s The Art of Fiction. The following passage, from the last chapter on plot, set my creative intellect aflame:
I have said that a writer may also plot a piece of fiction by working his way forward from an initial situation. Say he gets the slightly lunatic idea of a young [...]
March 1, 2009
Boodaloo the Tooth-Washer 1 draft 1
The first thousand words (plus 154) of the main story I’m working on. It is about an outcast peasant who invents dentistry.
February 26, 2009
Jorlane, King of Kahthk, part 1 draft 1
A taciturn man and a noble man arrive at a castle in the desert.
