A Writers Life

Getting all micro in your prose is a killer and makes your narrative plain and laborious to read. On this episode Dan talks about getting "Macro" and talks about giving your sentences purpose lest they become a mere list of actions. Also, he tells people how to write after telling them it's none of his business how anyone writes.

Oh, the madness is getting deeper!

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The necessity of pleasure to the writer. Also, characters and how they must come into contact with their worlds.

A Writer’s Letters

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On today's show Dan apologizes for his disparaging remarks on self-published authors.

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Mentioned in the show:

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

How Fiction Works by James Wood

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Joseph Conrad: A Personal Rememberance by Ford Maddox Ford

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Queen Hortense by Guy de Maupassant

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Writing is difficult and the temptation to simply float your work out on the internet is tempting. But maybe, Dan muses, that isn't the best thing to do.

DB talks about a writer's time on earth, and how it looks a little different than the regular person's.

Also on the show, Dan reads from the introduction of a William Saroyan short story collection written by the author. Saroyan gives us insight into a writer's life in the year 1943. Much has changed in the last 70 years. Has it been for the better? Hmmmm.

Join the discussion as Dan sifts through the murky waters that are his opinions and tries to figure it all out.

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Mentioned in the show:

Someday I'll be a Millionaire by William Saroyan

The Human Comedy by William Saroyan

Ulysses by James Joyce

Amzon's Top Books This Week (A link in the show notes to make up for what Dan said about authors who publish on Amazon)

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Does a writer’s talent correspond to his or her ability to sell books? Dan kicks around the idea, rejects

It, and continues his thoughts on irony: how it can turn a narrative voice into something insipid and/or snarky. Also, he defends George Lucas and with that argument finds himself spilling into an unlikely defence of P.L. James…kind of.

Selections:

The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien

Night Shift by Stephen King (short story collection)

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

THREE FAMOUS SHORT NOVELS: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear by William Faulkner

Star Wars Trilogy Episodes IV-VI (Blu-ray + DVD)

The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber) by Roger Zelazny

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

Dan's recommendations to combat irony in narrative:

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

WHY I LIVE AT THE P.O. by EUDORA WELTY

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

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Dan talks about taking a look at things from another angle and the opportunities writers miss whilst being normal. He also disrespects irony and the popular method of beginning a work of fiction.

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Short Stories 1896 - 1904 (The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekov)

(A&P - short story) My Father's Tears: And Other Stories by John Updike

Fifty Shades of Grey (The Fifty Shades Trilogy) (if you have to buy it, might as well do it here.)

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Dan talks about his neurotic way of crafting insults out of acts of kindness. He also reads the first lines of Hemingway's "Indian Camp" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and wonders about the best way to begin a short story.

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Dan's gas heater threatens his life while he ponders the "expectation of learnedness" the rest of the world has of writers. He also discusses certain words and phrases writers should never be caught using improperly.

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Dan gets a little heavy and discusses how he feels the world is pulling away from him. Also, he handles a different way to think of a sentence construction. Seriously, this guy may be going mad.

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Dan explores why he came to writing so late and the calculated risks writers take to begin their careers. Also, the value of being a renaissance man (or woman) if one is going to write from the unconscious mind.

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