Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:33:46 -0700
From: George Bronax
Subject: Writing Fiction
To: "John"
For good examples of episodic writing with sub plots and
seperate
character stories, intertwined into the trunk of the main
character,
go to
AETV, Sopranos, and study all the web pages.
You can write a long book a la John Updike,
as life as emotional and physical masturbation,
and conceptual masturbation ( Kant) or
Portnoy's Complaint, the addiction being not
the chronic masturbation, but the need to
relive it by telling someone about it (
Therapist)
or writing about it ( Updike). Just don't
write
it like most affected modern authors. Write it
like Joseph Conrad or some one using direct
speech. Message of all literature, Life is
Masturbation, as we never experientially
get out of ourselves, even when we are with
another person or persons. We are always
locked within our brains, only looking out
at the world of others.
Happy Halloween. I am shutting down early to avoid this, as I
stopped
celebrating about 7 years ago. Too much cost and work for too
little
emotional reward. It became just another underpaid
job for me.
You might want to begin, toe in the water,
to remain as Univ. counselor, but write newspaper or magazine
articles, later books.
George
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