Posted in Literature, Opinions and Rants, literary, personal, writing, tagged "Of the Night", Ado Ceric, editing, new book, New novel, perfectionism, revising, So Dark the Night, Ulysses on June 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It is the bane of my existence.
The ridiculous perfectionism that forces me to drag out a project soooo long, reducing the process of creation to a chore, grinding away on a tale or a novel until I feel nothing but revulsion for it.
I was determined it was going to be different with my novel Of [...]
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Posted in Books, Essays and Non Fiction, Literature, Opinions and Rants, Reading, literary, personal, writing, tagged Peter Watts, Ray Bradbury, Golden Apples of the Sun, Arthur C. Clarke, Companion Library, Hans Brinker, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, A.E. van Vogt, Robert Sheckley, Citizen in Space, Twilight Zone, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Jerome Bixby, Samuel Beckett, J.G. Ballard, Surrealism, Paul Auster, Jonathan Carroll, James Crumley, Jack O'Connell, Irvine Welsh, Don DeLillo, Tony Daniel, John Barnes, Charles Stross, Paul Di Filippo, Vernor Vinge, horror fiction, Science fiction, sources of inspiration, literary inspiration, indie writer, L.F. Celine, Franz Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft, King Lear, Count of Monte Cristo, Victor Hugo, reading list, Antonin Artaud, James Morrow, Dennis Danvers, summer reading list, reading suggestions on June 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Initially, I read to escape.
Found my way to the neverlands and never-will-bes as part of a protracted and determined effort to seek refuge from a real world in which I was vulnerable, helpless.
Books also helped assuage the loneliness, the sense of otherness that frequently assailed me. I’ve always had an earnestly held desire to [...]
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