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A prolific short story writer, EA Luetkemeyer’s fiction has appeared in the literary journals Sou’wester, Opium Magazine, Del Sol Review, Perversion Magazine, The Ilanot Review, Cerasus Magazine, Rhodora, Centrifictionist, and The ShabdAaweg Review. His flash fiction piece, The Southwest Chief, was named a finalist in The Wild Atlantic Writing Awards, and his story Bead by Bead, a finalist in the anthology Stories That Must be Told, a publication of Tulip Tree Press. He is the author of the memoir The Book of Chuck, and the novels Inside the Mind of Martin Mueller, Penitentiary Tales: a Love Story (a finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards), and My Year at the Good Bean Cafe. He has been a martial artist, long distance runner, outlaw ...more

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E.A. Luetkemeyer It is not a problem these days. I have amassed a vast repository of material upon which to draw. My approach to a story long or short is that I am pro…moreIt is not a problem these days. I have amassed a vast repository of material upon which to draw. My approach to a story long or short is that I am prompted by a meaningful moment or a significant passage in my life and the explication of its meaning becomes my destination. Getting there I’m free to wander. I banish my censor and open the gates and whatever flows through me goes on the page. My first draft is right-brained and spontaneous and produces a throbbing mass. Afterward, the left-brain takes over and slices and dices and rearranges the parts. At the end of a writing session I stop when I know what I want to have happen next so I can resume the following day. And if I do get stuck, I might have a conversation with my character. I might say: Joe, help me out here! What would you like to do next?(less)

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E.A. Luetkemeyer There is no one best thing. There are many great and wonderful things. I see writing as an exercise in telepathy that transcends time and space. Image…moreThere is no one best thing. There are many great and wonderful things. I see writing as an exercise in telepathy that transcends time and space. Images and ideas and emotions are delivered to my conscious mind from a subconscious repository of all ideas and images and emotions which I then arrange into a story and render in symbols on the page. Some time and place later—perhaps tomorrow across town, or maybe thousands of miles and hundreds of years later when I am dead and gone—some anonymous reader will scan the symbols and the story will emerge in his conscious mind just as I had conjured it in mine. It is a mystical and mind-blowing process which I am thrilled to participate in. Also, my life is the material for my stories and if I don’t tell them no one will. (less)

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