by Jack Remick | Mar 2, 2014 | Accolades for the Author, Gabriela and The Widow, Jack Remick, Music of Writing, New Fiction, poetics of prose
I received this today from the Eric Hoffer Award panel: Dear Author/Publisher: Congratulations. As part of the Eric Hoffer Award, your book (Gabriela and The Widow, my emphasis) was nominated for the Montaigne Medal. Your book is still on track for a category prize,...
by Jack Remick | Jan 28, 2014 | poetics of prose, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Writing the Way I See It ©2014 by Jack Remick (Note: I wrote this essay for a German e-zine called Haute Culture. They wanted something about the origin of The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery and a little bit about my ideas on why we write. The essay was to be...
by Jack Remick | Jul 1, 2012 | Music of Writing, poetics of prose, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
The Jack Straw 50th Seattle, June 15th, 2012 7:00 AM A man turns a clarinet into a horn, a flute, a piccolo. He plays a Suite for Parts of the Clarinet. It is unlike anything I’ve heard before. I ask him if he invented this. “No,” he says. He takes no credit for...
by Jack Remick | Jun 13, 2012 | New Fiction, poetics of prose, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Image by permission of Kevin Coyne © 2012 Cover design by M. Anne Sweet and Sabrina Sun From the Opening: © 2012 by Jack Remick The year the war ended, Gabriela led her sick Mother out of Tepeñixtlahuaca. The bones of the villagers still had meat on them then and the...
by Jack Remick | Jan 17, 2012 | First Person Narrative, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Writing about Writing—A useful technique for getting control of your story ©2012 by Jack Remick After rewriting the last three scenes for the fourth time. I find myself rewriting the same three scenes over and over. I’m looking for the deep place they hook to but I...
by Jack Remick | Oct 27, 2011 | New Fiction, North Beach, poetics of prose, San Francisco, Seattle's Literary Community, The Beats, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
I grew up in California’s Central Valley. The Valley was huge but stifling. If you climbed the town water tower one foggy night and the cops hauled you down, it made the local newspaper–“Boys Saved From Fall and Likely Death”. Your one goal was a...
