Diane Sherlock
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Congratulations to Howard Jacobson who won the Man Booker prize for THE FINKLER QUESTION. Haven’t read it yet, but since I just finished writing a comic novel, I’m looking forward to it.
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Dovetailing continues. Or perhaps it’s serendipity. In any case, I rediscovered the Harvard Business Review. It contains a surprising number of articles that are helpful to novelists. If you haven’t thought about your purpose, read this. It is the key to discovering your personal fuel that will keep you going when things get rough on…
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Read ROOM by Emma Donoghue a few days ago. The characters and story lingered after I finished the book, but now I find it’s fading fast. I believe the reason is that the way the book is constructed – from the viewpoint of a five year old boy – there’s no space for the narrative…
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…as opposed to the writing you don’t. You will be commended on the writing you do, not the writing you intend to do. I knew a woman who claimed to be a writer because it was all inside her head. She never put it down on paper. Sorry, not a writer. A writer writes. Do…
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I have a piece up at The Citron Review. Their Fall issue is primarily devoted to second person point of view.
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After considering that narcissism has no place in creating fiction, the question is, what does? That brings me to beauty. A friend has spent most of the summer in the hospital – details aren’t important – they need their privacy. However, among the visitors while I was there last week were a couple of lovely…
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New look! Got tired of the old one and I know it’s harder to read white words on a black background. I like to change things up now and then. My annotation of Paul Harding’s TINKERS is up at Annotation Nation. I’ve been thinking a lot about narcissism and writers, especially since the Mailer Colony.…
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