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...
by Jack Remick | Sep 3, 2011 | New Fiction, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
I just signed a multi-book contract with Coffeetown Press to bring out The California Quartet and Gabriela and the Widow. All five novels should be available by December 2012. The first release will be The Deification. Sounds like the Rapture, but it’s the first...
by Jack Remick | Mar 2, 2011 | book reviews, Seattle's Literary Community, Uncategorized, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Now available at Elliott Bay. 3/06/2011 2:00 am Blood (Camel Press) is Seattle writer Jack Remick’s new novel, a taut, open-eyed story written by a one-time mercenary and hired killer doing prison time, due to soon be again free and on the street—a street that...
by Jack Remick | Oct 19, 2010 | Music of Writing, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
Okay. A couple of readers want to know what a plot track is and how it works. You can run a plot track on an object, a symbol, a character, an action. In the examples below, all from Blood, I run the plot track on knife with several transforms. I remembered the feel...
by Jack Remick | Oct 14, 2010 | Music of Writing, poetics of prose, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
I first thought about the problem of memory and how we know what words mean a few years ago. In Blood, I decided to make memory a central plot track. So, as Mitch writes his story, The Patron Saint of Blood, he finds that his memory of past events fades. It turns out...
