by Jack Remick | Dec 2, 2012 | Accolades for the Author, book reviews, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques
Book Review: Blood by Jack Remick Sarah’s Blog I’ve been trying to get this review up since I finished Blood several months ago. The book covered so much and has so many layered parts to it, I will never do justice to the experience. I would love to hear from...
by Jack Remick | Oct 7, 2012 | Accolades for the Author, California, Gabriela and The Widow, New Fiction, Press Release, Writing Craft
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Coffeetown Announces the January Release of Gabriela and The Widow, a Story of Memory, Immortality and Redemption Contact: Catherine Treadgold Publisher Coffeetown Press PO Box 70515 Seattle, WA 98127 206-414-7673 Catherine@coffeetownpress.Com...
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 25, 2012 | Blood the Novel, Seattle's Literary Community, Writing Craft, Writing Techniques, Writing Theory
This technique is an example of how the writer can work out the full scene sequence for a novel based on a couple of treatments–either the Three Act Structure or the Mythic Journey Sequence. This sequence is based on the Three Act Structure. Cut To Sequence for...
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...
