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Turning a Novel into a Memoir into a Novel-as-Memoir
Many years ago, I wrote a novel–my first novel–and it was pretty good. Good enough to be a finalist in three national contests, and I was pretty sure it was going to get published, or that it would land me an agent. Until it didn’t.
As it turns out, that first book, called The Ruins, was my “your first novel never gets published” novel. You know, the one everyone tells you about. The one that you
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“When it comes right down to it, I’ve decided, almost every relationship involves two people with intense insecurities masked by whatever behavior it takes to keep those insecurities from being exposed, while at the same time revealing their equally desperate need to have them exposed, even embraced.”
― White Plains
― White Plains
“Because, you know—I’m starting to figure this out, and yes, it may be too late—what is love, after all, what is life, but a striving against, and not settling for, our inevitable doom? What is it if it’s not a constant assertion of our longing for home, for intimacy, in the face of our unfathomable annihilation?”
― White Plains
― White Plains
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
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Hi David! Thanks for approving us as friends. I’m Gusto Dave Jackson Publicist for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and I wouldn’t be worth my salt if I didn’t tout our blog and organization. Chiseled in Rock http://chiseledinrock.blogspot.com features side-splitting satire and some flash fiction for intellectual readers.
Today on the Rock: Literary Agent NICOLE RESCINITI, writer of erotic romances E.C. STACY offers up another hilarious cartoon, and insider info on making book trailers.
RMFW has several bestselling authors such as NYT Bestseller JEANNE STEIN and J.A. KAZIMER. You have an open invitation to the Rock for contests, entertainment, and an insight to the world of writing! Let’s follow each others’ blogs!
