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Between novels, what's a guy to do?
Friday, April 13, 2007
He writes stories.
Novels take a lot of thought, a lot of time, and tend to take up a lot of room in my life and my head. For the last couple of years, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician has been the center of my creative life, and even though it's yet to make its way to a bookstore near you (that won't happen until July), I've already let it go. Sure I worry about it, a little bit . . . but for the most part I've had to move on to something else.
That's where short stories come in. Short stories, because they take a lot less time to write than a full-fledged novel, allow you to experiment and explore, without the risk involved in writing a novel. By risk I mean: what happens if the novel you're writing turns out to suck? That's serious and semi-devestating (I know, believe me). But a story (for me, anyway) can take a couple of days to a couple of weeks, and because I'm not betting the farm on it I can write something -- oh, I don't know -- daring. Or not. Maybe something that's slight, a diversion, for fun. Whatever, I'm glad I don't just write novels.
Some of my stories will be out there about the same time MSATNM comes out. Ninth Letter, Land Grant College Review, and Salt Hill will all be publishing stories of mine this summer. An in-flight magazine will be publishing a piece I wrote about one special summer in my life. And (close to my heart) I've been working on a children's book with an Italian illustrator. The book is called Elynora, and we're taking the weirdly fun tack of submitting to Italian publishers first. Sort of like O Grand Rosenfeld! Oh. And I've started another novel. Go figure. Labels: Stories
posted by Daniel Wallace at 8:07 AM
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To: The Angel of Scared Shitless.
Dear Angel.
Never, ever, surcease!
The successful and tried Author does, what a writer who has never been published will do. A writer who loves that which he has done.
After writing a fiction which has not been published that has never seen the light of day shall write a sequal and another and another and another. And then write a recompense for all who did not get it the first time, which would be everyone, since no one has read it.
Any act of futility should from within be reproofed and replaced with a moral compulsion for he who has put heart and soul into a work irregardless of audience or an absence of accolades. Like a child brought into the world one would nurture it to the value point desired. A writing that has consumed ones being deserves no less fostering. You as a creator are the god of your creation. A god never becomes a stranger to his creation. He shall always be supreme to his writing and the writing supreme to him. .Sidney.
to follow.................................................................................................................sequi
sequi. sequate.
Can God become a slave to his own creation?
Lets see now. hell on earth-heaven on earth-good eternity-bad eternity-with God-without God-written-unwritten. Is that a yes?