Tag: novel
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Embracing the Wastebasket
In the summer of 2018, I got addicted to the wastebasket. Tossing a poem into it gave me a buzz—like a puff from a Marlboro Red. So, I threw away a short story—more intoxicating, like a shot of Camarena tequila. You know how these things go. I wound up sliding a 300-page memoir into the…
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Notes from the Winners’ Circle
National Novel Writing Month is over. A month ago, I decided to attempt the standard NaNoWriMo goal of 50,000 words. 50,000 words is not the same thing as a novel. For perspective, Gatsby and Slaughterhouse V are both about 50k words. War and Peace is something like half a million words. What that means is,…
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