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Tag Archives: Tom Wolfe
Sympathy for the Pigeonholes – Day 274
All the trendy rockers will tell you the same thing: don’t pigeonhole me or my music. (Actually, writers do this too – you just don’t hear about it as much on MTV…) They’ll rant and they’ll rave and they’ll throw … Continue reading
What Should You Be Studying While Writing a Novel? – Day 181
There’s an interesting story about U2 I heard. While they were writing/making one of their albums, a collection of Beatles songs came out – lost songs, remastered titles, I can’t remember. The point is that Bono talked about the fact … Continue reading
Day 112 – The Motel on the Way to Somewhere Else
“What [feature writers] had in common was that they all regarded the newspaper as a motel you checked into overnight on the road to the final triumph. The idea was to get a job on a newspaper, keep body and … Continue reading
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Day 104
Tom Wolfe started as a newspaperman, one of those old time reporters.
“…it was always nighttime in my daydreams of the newspaper life. Reporters didn’t work during the day.” Continue reading
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Day 19 – Every Me and Every You
Got some good sleep last night, and woke up quite refreshed. Wow, a long week! I don’t think I was in bed before midnight once this week. I think it really affected the writing. It’s hard to force yourself to write when the muses are sleeping…
Well, as I had hoped, I got my hour in early today. More laying down of story, but not a lot of style development. I’m hoping that it just starts kicking in, but I’m getting a little worried now. Maybe I should take a passage and just concentrate on developing the style. Continue reading
Day 18 – Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
Writing in a fog tonight. I’m surprised I got as many words down as I did. However, I am definitely going to start a bit earlier tomorrow… Continue reading
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Day 16 – The Unbearable Lightness of Bee-ing
100% convinced now to do this as a “non-fiction” book, kickin’ it old school with the New Journalism. But in reverse.
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Day 13 – Cannonball
I got my hour in early today – well, relatively early. Before evening. I’m feeling great — I actually want to keep writing, even after the buzzer has gone. I take that to be a good sign.
I’m still trying to play with the style a bit — I’m leaning towards a bit of a more journalistic style, kind of like The New Journalism style in Tom Wolfe’s book that Duncan Weller was telling me about. I haven’t actually read the book yet, but I feel that I have a sense of that style already, having read some of Wolfe’s stuff as well as Hunter S. Thompson. The Great Gatsby, I think, could be put into that genre as well, at least as a forerunner. After all, who is Nick Carraway but a narrator reporting on someone else’s story? I’m certain it wasn’t Fitzgerald’s intention to invent The New Journalism, but echoes are there nonetheless. Continue reading
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